Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

Easy sprint training. First part through a technical mess of yurts and trailers in an abandoned area people were living in. Next, 2 legs where there are two routes drawn on a leg and you have to pick the shortest one. Then, just a blanked out map where you had to follow the line just taking account distance and direction. Plus, another round of the last two parts.

C • Abandon area 14

4 intervals in Silkeborg. First interval was clean enough just started a bit slow, wasn't running aggressive enough through the forest. The next I flipped my map over to the wrong map (and also area) so I lost a few minutes on the first control confused as hell. Then seeing everyone else run by starting the next interval as I ran by the last control threw me off a bit and I spent some time in the circle. Now I started by myself and had to cut it short, that really got to me and I mentally wasn't there. Turns out one of the (3 I did) legs actually went quite well. The final one went alright except for a mistake on the last control where I decided to abandon my route of going over top of a hill and instead going around (a lot of green on the leg so needed the clear feature of the hill top).
Overall a bit disappointing and physically not as much of a workout as intended to be.

Missed the bus leaving to training since I didn't receive email saying it was leaving at 4:45 not 5:00, so biked home got a map and biked over to moesgard beach. Usually won't log transportation but it's maybe 11km so I'll log the way there.

Found an old contour only (plus rocks, rootstocks, and point features) interval map with 4 courses (well 6 but only did 4) and ran that. Slow going in parts having to pick my way through all the logging debris and a lot thicker in parts then the white the map would lead you to think.
Went good except for one control involving a lot of green on the leg and an un-mapped road/trail that I thought I knew the direction it was going. Just focused on talking to myself about what I was doing and having a picture of the big features around the leg

Missed the bus to the other side of the forest and no one at the clubhouse to say where the training was happening, after my chain fell off a countless number of times.
Waited half an hour and then realized I didn't have enough motivation to run the training at 8:30 by myself once everyone got back

Some parts went really well and others I'm not sure how I can make over 10 minutes of dumb mistakes. It seems like I'm a far better orienteerer then I was 2 years ago but I'll put up the same rather poor results.

C • Piecing it together 5

Not much motivation to do much more then the basics

I made a 3 minute mistake on the 2nd control, got caught, got mentally thrown off, and there were only two controls I ran cleanly after that