Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-02-04:
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Saturday Feb 3 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:07:30 [4]*** 6.57 km (10:16 / km) | |
| spiked:9/12c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| The final race of the Winter Series, and I had plenty of motivation coming in. With a decent race, I'd get enough points to pass Dave Enger and Rick Breseman in the standings and finish as high as 11th overall.
And, eh, I didn't have a very good race. In fact, I made my biggest boom in a while. The course was at Fire Mountain Scout Camp, which compared to the one I went to in Missouri, was super tiny. Anyway... Start to #1. I navigated ok, but the map seemed sketchy in places so I hesitated longer than I should have. 4:31 was my time, but I probably wasted 15 seconds in slowing down. Oh, this was my first ever control at a cave. #1 to #2. Getting up to the road was challenging... do you take the west side full of thorns, or the east side up the super steep and tall earth bank? I chose thorns, and Nick chose earth bank, and we concluded that thorns was the way to go. However, INEXPLICABLY, I chose to attack #2 from the road above the cliff, not the OBVIOUS road below the cliff. I lost perhaps 90 seconds on this stupid, stupid mistake. #2 to #3. I took the fast road around on this one, not because it was a handrail, but because I knew it was fast. There was potentional on the map to cut through two open areas separated by some thin woods, but when I got there, there was a bunch of construction equipment in the way, so I didn't want to risk it. #3 to #4. There were lots of downed branches along the trail by the silt pond... it wasn't too bad, but it makes me wonder how much time it would have taken to have backtracked a bit and taken the cleaner trail. I got kinda lucky on hitting the flag, because it was in a clearing (campground), but there were no buildings on the map here, and in reality there were. I thought I was in the campground just before it, so I was going to cut the corner, and bam, there was my control. #4 to #5. My best control of the day. I thought it was obvious which way to go, but I saw two experienced orienteers take two completely different ways to get there, and I passed them both, and pulled ahead of them by at least 45 seconds. I took a main trail right to the junction, which was my attackpoint. From the attackpoint, you could see the boulder at the top of the hill, so I ran for it, and the control was on the boulder just past it. #5 to #6. One small bobble here (15 seconds) and one major boom (3 minutes). I'm not going to fault myself too much here, because there were several boulders that weren't mapped, and I got pulled over about 50 meters too far east. I'm a little confused about the maps/printing here... Nick ran the same course I did, and he had some boulders missing on his map.. one of which was hanging a flag. #6 to #7. Worst leg in a long, long time, and I didn't follow my own advice: don't expect flags too soon. Because the event had longer distances, fewer controls, and a smaller scale map, I told Gina, Nick, and Scott to remember this... and I didn't. And this was an easy leg. I think what confused me was that I got to the scout lodge waaaay earlier than I intended to (I knew where I was at this point... but I think I must have zoned out or something on the way there). I crossed the creek like I should, ran on the trail like I should, and then I saw a large rock thing... something that was on the map... 300 meters past my control. I was convinced that I ran too far, so I ran back, only get back to the lodge much quicker. I started to think that maybe I was at the wrong lodge.... On my second time down the trail, I looked for every tree stump I could, and I finally found the flag... about 20 meters down the trail from when I originally turned around. My leg was 16 minutes long. Between controls #5 and #7, Nick made up a whopping 9 minutes on me. #7 thru finish. There are six legs here, but they were all so simple that I don't even think it's worth mentioning. I guess one of them had a way around some thorny areas, which I took, and Nick did not (which saved me some time), and there was a little 10 second hesitation while looking for a trail, but this half of the course was too easy, I thought. Even my big screw up on #7 involved handrailing the whole way. I finished 8:30 ahead of Nick, and about 4 minutes ahead of Tyler, a guy who I beat about 75% of the time. Unfortunately, I didn't beat Rick, so I didn't pass him in the series, and I'm guessing that with my time, that I didn't pass Dave either. Jake, my "rival", who I've haven't lost to since June, beat me by a whopping 10 minutes. I was 10 points ahead of him in the series going in, and depending on how things shake out, he might have had a monster of a result to make up those points. Gina did pretty well on Course #5, especially on a bum ankle. Scott pretty much rocked Course #5. The latest results showed him in 1st place by a big-time 11 minutes, and he clocked a 9 min/km pace. He's only done 3 races so far, but I think he'll be ready to bump up to the advanced ones when the Ultimate Orienteer series starts next month. Also, Nick's wife's parents were in town, so they tagged along with Angela on a Course #2. Mike was supposed to come today, but his lead called him into work today, so he couldn't. | ||
| C • Killer Mistake 1 | ||
Tuesday Jan 30 | ||
| Volleyball 1:45:00 [2] | |
| BENVA Winter League, Week #3
Officially, 0 wins, 6 losses Unofficially, 2 wins, 1 tie, 3 losses Jeff was out this week (our steadiest player) and Jamal (hasn't played in several years) subbed. Our first game was pretty rusty, and we lost. During that game Gina rolled her ankle and had to sit out the rest of the night. The remaining four of us played really sharp the rest of the night, but we had to forfeit all of those games because we didn't meet the guy/girl ratio (4:2, 4:1, and 3:1 are legal teams. We were playing 4:0). | ||
| C • Gina 1 | ||
Monday Jan 29 | ||
| Basketball 30:00 [2] | |
| BEEBA Spring Season, Week #3
Win, 45-43 We won a flippin' game, thanks to Blake and Thomas, the newbies, who scored lots of points. Tim C got a huge offensive rebound + free throw late to seal the win. I didn't score, but I was content with shutting down my man on defense and getting tons of rebounds. Unfortunately, I took a fall right on my really really sore hip (from skiing), and I had to sit out a quarter. | ||