Training Log Archive: nwhitty

Home now and will try and update stuff before Canadians! Oringen was an amazing experience despite very mixed results depending on the day - awesome maps, courses and atmosphere consistently though!

C • O-Ringen 1

O-Ringen stage 5
Solid start, exciting since Emma S was only 30 seconds behind me.. felt good reading the map especially to #3 it was smooth and then route choice leg to #4 that included a lot of climb saw my initial route (a good one) and started out and then decided I wouldn't be clean with compass up the side of the hill so I should be safe and do a lot more climb up the ski hill to the trail... regrets even after a calf seizing climb i had to run back down the hill and passed #4 relocated and then went back up the hill... 5 and 6 were fine but then on route to 7 I got on the wrong track to a trail adding decent distance. After 7 I picked it up and am really happy with how I orienteered, my places for the last 6 splits were: 2, 7, 3, 2, 7, 3 ! Glad to have a strong finish to the week and another reminder that if I'm clean I can compete!
#nobigmistakes is my motto that I'm going to try and work on :)

O-ringen stage 4 (Middle)
No gps on watch today so not sure about distance.

A decent race! Hesitant to number 1 getting readjusted to 1:10000 but then it was really fun and the 1:10000 made me feel like I knew what was going on again... bobble to #5 and then number 7 I tried to go over the cliffs which probably wasn't the best. I then nearly stepped on two snakes, one on the legit side of a cliff which gave me a heart attack and then another at the bottom 45 seconds later which made me scream (first time for that!). I then kinda lost focused and ran past #7 but relocated quick enough to get me back in it... bobble on #9 again coming off my line but then to the finish was a super fun downhill run and pushing it all the way was a good feeling :)

O-ringen stage 3

Another "how the heck do you orienteer" race reminiscent of stage 1.
It was a very cool map nothing like I had been on before and with a long first leg I lost contact and had no idea how to relocate in an area with very similar looking long marshes and ridges. Thought I came in on the correct marsh lined by cliffs but I definitely did not... eventually found it had a decent next 3 controls and then lost it again finding my 6th control before my 5th control on a 1:15000 map that is never a good thing. It was a tricky area but I still have no idea what i was thinking. 7th control also posed a decent amount of problems with a bearing up the side of a hill and controls with tracking on all elevations of it... again very relieved to finish in the end but not a particularly great race. Lots of time on a cool map on the bright side..

Rest day although walked into town to watch the sprint and grocery shop, posted almost 21km of walking!

O-ringen stage 2
A much better race! Ate well and was more focused, lost some time on the first control by being cautious and not wanting to run around frantically although I was about 100m from the control as I stood trying to line everything up... needed to start a little more confidently but then kicked it into gear and was happy with the rest of it despite a mistake on 4 coming off my line and having to back track along the trail. Felt like I could run and results showed that with a semi clean race I can be competitive.