Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

Day 2 @ Lava Butte. Usually they do a one-man relay here, which is always a good time, but this time it was a mass-start dog-bones course, which was also really fun. Out of the start Jourdan was ahead of me so I tried to stick with him, which was probably overly optimistic. It did work for about the first half of the course, but I was indecisive on 6 and took a weird route, then blew the second flag of 7, and also crashed pretty hard physically around that point and just didn't have any energy left in my legs.

Event: Deschutes Daze 2019
 

Deschutes Daze, Day 1 @ Lower Dutchman! Lost some time on 1, which seemed a bit misplaced, and goofed up my route to 8, but was going generally okay till losing ~7 minutes on 11 in the always-dangerous lava field. After that I was on tilt and not into it, and slowed down considerably. Still, always an absolute pleasure to orienteer in this terrain - though I was disappointed that the course setting disregarded a lot of the best stuff in favor of trail and field running. The forest is sooo nice here, just use it...

Chill MTB with dad from Swampy Lakes trailhead back to Bend. Someday I will bring my road bike here and see exactly how fast I can do the ~20 miles from the Dutchman map all the way back down. Will aim for <45 minutes.

Lower Dutchman, Long Witch - Splits

Event: CascadeOC 2019 Wednesday Evening #6 – North Seattle College
 

Ain't no way they can (noo)
Ain't no way they can (noo)
Ain't no way they can (noo)
Ain't no way they can (noo)
Ain't no way they can stop me now
Cuz I'm on my way I can feel my ring comin
It's the blood of a champion
Pumpin deep inside my veins too much pride to be runnin
Imma get what I can and more
Even if my blood my sweat and my tears don't mean nothin
It's the heart of a champiooooon