Training Log Archive: Gil

Disastrous Relay race for me. My team-mates got and kept team in contention and I let it slip away. Started less then minute behind Eric Bone. I caught up with him by #2 and I should have stuck with him regardless anything and lose race physically, not technically. However he seemed to zig-zag too much for my liking and I thought I'd cut corners to save some energy. According to John F. I just run by #3. I think I was searching for #3 for about 10 minutes before I found it (I have not checked splits yet). I told myself - don't get frustrated, just keep rest of the course clean. That did not happen - I overshot #4 and could not locate the flag for some time. Then I decided to go back to #3 and repeat my route and all in sudden found it. Pretty much my mood was spoiled for rest of the course. I was running to finish it. I made another blunder on my second loop when instead of picking #15 I got #19 first and was standing there like an amateur trying to figure out why numbers don't match. Not the way to complete the weekend.

Event: Sprint Series Final & US Relay Champs
 

Total time for workup before every Sprint

First sprint course. I was doing decent times till I overshot #7 big time. Then I overshot #12 and ended up at #13. Since it was my flag I did not even noticed at first that I am missing control. DNF.

Second Sprint Race. I did not have any major mistakes except I kind of felt that I was not pushing speed enough. I caught one guy around control #5 and I did not shake him off till last 2 controls. I guess this was speed which allowed me not to have too many major mistakes and I have to accept that this is my skill level for now.

Last Sprint. It was very confusing map to be honest (at least for me). There were 3 loops to pick from and I got extremely lucky that I started correct loop. Finished my loop just few yards behind Nate's loop my first loop. I was in lead for my group and I did not have any help maintaining speep at second loop. It did not help that I run into lady woth 3 dogs on my second look who was strugling to contain them. Even second loop was shorter then first I was further behind Nate's group going into 3rd loop. Here is where I made a mistake of trying to catch up with Nate's group by choosing different routes. All I should have done is just try to catch them for rest of the course. Which I failed to do losing more ground on them since I gambled more then them. However it was encouriging to see that Nate was able to stick with leaders of his group.

Sprint B Course 3 (R/B) - Splits

Two loops of Eaglehead, S. Lincoln, Ridgeview. First was to warm up, second was faster or of a tempo pace. Two days of tempering would be too much.

Just before I was leaving for CT I got not so good news about project I have to do in week or so. Pretty much I was thinking about it all the way from Rochester to Stamford. In Syracuse I was almost ready to turn back and cancel weekend of orienteering because and do some work instead. That kind of started my semi-disastrous weekend.

Shooting

Morning jog in my new shoes.

Second workout of the day