Training Log Archive: markg

2nd leg of the Barebones relay, a middle distance course. I consider this a good race, despite making about 4min of mistakes (2 decent mistakes and one which was luckily a bit smaller), I pushed really hard and achieved a slightly better result than usual.

I had the privilege of heading off in the lead but dropped stupidly to 2nd (I think as I never saw another runner) with a 2min error at #1. Pushed hard and nailed the next 3 but missed the tricky little #5 and hit #6 instead. That was a small mistake but I could hear someone behind me. Nailed #7 but didn't pick a sufficiently secure route to #8, missed it, and lost another 1.5min and dropped to 3rd place. The course was a little easier after this and I nailed everything and pushed hard. Finished about 100m behind 2nd.

5th and last leg of Barebones relay a sprint race. Cool little area around the YMCA with lots of little tracks, tiipiis, and small contour detail. An awesome race but with a fatal flaw. I could've won the relay ...

I set off in 3rd place behind Emily Kemp and Eric Bone. I guess Eric was about 30s ahead and Emily 1min. Didn't have an ideal route into #1 but running well and smoked the next 4. I could see Eric about 50m ahead as I ran into #4. Spiked #6 but in a spectacular brain explosion, I read the wrong control number and didn't punch it ... spent about 1:45 running around in circles before confirming it was the right control and checking the number again. Doh! Screamed off after this and ran really well, couldn't have lost more than 5s till #16 when I caught Emily and didn't read that leg properly dropping 20s. Still ran away from Emily and took 3rd place.

Disaster - worst orienteering in a long time. The Barebones Long-ish distance in shitty (0 deg and snow) weather. Made three huge errors in the first 4 controls - 19.5 minutes of mistakes in 33 min orienteering - and threw it in. The weather wasn't kind enough to finish a race this badly stuffed up. There was one tiny light in the gloom, I set the 2nd fastest split on the 2nd control. Hurrah.

Only completed 1.9km of the course, the remainder is the distance back to the start ...

Event: Barebones 2008
 

Dropped the car off at the dealer for a service and road home on my MTB. I hadn't ridden this way before and didn't have an optimal route, reckon I can probably lose about 10min from that time.

Back to the car dealership. Got stuck on the wrong side of 16 Ave and Barlow Tr and had to do a big loop around behind the dealer to actually get in.

Squat exercises plus some stretching. Legs a bit tired after all my cycling today. It was about equal to all the other cycling I've done in the last 6 months.