Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-02-18:
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Sunday Feb 18 | ||
| Note | |
| I'm in a bit of a slump. After a *really* successful fall:
--2nd at Woodland Park --4th at Lake Sammamish --3rd at Lake Hyak --2nd at Vampire-O --2nd at the Fremont Street Scramble --1st at the Carnation Turkey Hunt) My winter has been pretty bad: --Suffering big time at the Bog Slog --A half-assed run at the Pike Place Scramble --Two poor Winter League performances in a row, three overall. I'm definitely in a bit of a slump, as my paces are slower, I'm making more mistakes, and my rivals are beating me more often. However, I don't know why this is happening? Maybe all of the course design stuff in Nov/Dec really took me out of it? Maybe now that I have several friends who routinely orienteer now... my race day focus is gone? I'm not sure. | ||
Saturday Feb 17 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:08:22 [4]*** | |
| spiked:8/15c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Point Defiance Park
Winter League Champs, Course #7 11th place of 24 Absolutely beautiful weather, and, well, a not so-so beautiful performance. Start to #1:Spiked it, spiked it, spiked it! Within 10 seconds, I was on my way, I ran well, and I was aware enough to avoid the soft trap by hitting up the earth bank early. I had the second fastest time on this leg! #1 to #2: Lost about a minute on this one due to route choice. Dave Enger ran straight at this super-short leg, going down and up the ravine. It looked a little sketchy to me, so I contoured around this one. In fact, I was only 2 seconds faster than Nick, who ran out to the road and around. #2 to #3: Lost another minute on this one, mainly within the circle. The clue was an earthbank, NW tip, but it didn't say whether or not it was up top or below. Unfortunately, I guessed low, and I had to climb back up and around to this one. #3 to #4: Since I'd already explored the lower part of the earth bank, I knew that it spit out to the beach, so I went down and ran along the path on the shore to the control. #4 to #5: Shoulda shoulda shoulda taken the beach around on this one. This was a long leg, and there wasn't a shoreline path on the map, and I was worried about the terrain being too rocky, and the tide being too high or something. Instead, I lumbered up the hill, through the woods, (in not a very direct path, I might add), on the road, and down the trail. I reckon I lost 4 minutes here on route-choice. #5 to #6. ARRRRRGGHH. The color of the maps weren't printed well, so what was light green on the map actually looked white. Couple that with the fact that the light green should have been mapped medium/dark green. I tried to take the direct approach by plowing through the "white" woods after taking a trail about 1/3 of the way through. Well, once the trail ended, it was a slog through all of that junk. My offset method worked, as I spit out on the other side about 20 meters east of the flag. But my gosh, I lost 4 minutes on another route choice error. #6 to #7: I learned my lesson on the previous leg, so I ran around and spiked this one. Some other folks took some interesting (and I think not as good) route choices on this one. Spiked it. #7 to #8: I missed the wrong trail leaving the control, and it cost me about 100m of extra distance by not taking the hypotenuse. I didn't stop and contemplate the error any, so I lost less than a minute on this one. #8 to #9: I spiked this one, too, with a quick decision on the route early. As it turned out, this one had a "six of one, half a dozen of the other" route choice (which I didn't see until afterward). I'm glad that I made a decision before punching, so I could get out and go. This made the rest of the leg super easy and quick. #9 to #10: My killer leg. It was really short, and I passed the attackpoint (a gap in the dark green) by 50 meters. Anyway, I ended up being in the next reentrant over, with poor visibility and LOTS of downed trees and branches. I decided to relocate back to the trail and try again. I hit it the second time. I lost 5 minutes here. #10 to #11: I spiked this one, too. This was a runner's leg, no doubt, and I passed three people to this one, mainly because they were unsure of themselves on the map and had to stop. I was pretty confident and nailed it. #11 to #12: Another runner's leg, until the very end. The guys behind me passed me at the end, but they didn't pay enough attention. They took the "shortcut" trail that really wasn't. I saw the trick, and got it, but I sprained my ankle at the flag. #12 to #13: A third consecutive runner's leg, and a third consecutive spike. #13 to #14: DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB mistake. This one was "underneath stairs", and we started way atop the bluff, so we had to get down there. I saw fences that seemed to block a lot of the most obvious route, so I decided to backtrack and go around from completely the opposite direction. As course-setter in Dec, I put a control under a bridge at UW, tricking everyone. I thought that Glenn was pulling the same prank on us here, so I went around the other way. However, the most obvious way to go here was the best option, by a good minute. I'm dumb. #14 to #15: A short spike. I even super spiked this one by climbing up the rock retaining wall and crawling under the wooden fence, saving my self the hassle of having to run over to the sidewalk/road junction several meters away. #15 to Finish: 17-second sprint. --- This was not a very good run, as all of main "rivals" beat me considerably, even the ones I normally beat. Scott, who was running in just his 4th orienteering meet, bumped up to Course #7, and I only beat him by 34 seconds. If he keeps it up, he's going to be a beast. Nick ran well, too, earning his first top 50% (and first top 1/3) finish on a COC advanced course, finishing 2 minutes behind me. Mistakes: Route Choice: 4 errors worth 10 minutes Parallel Error: 1 error worth 5 minutes Navigation Error: 1 error worth 1 minute Searching for Flag: 1 error worth 1 minute TOTAL: 7 errors, 17 minutes, 25% of total time. Positives: Great first leg, didn't get caught Offset technique worked perfect, despite speed Planned 8-9 route ahead, no slowing 10-11-12-13, lots of running, no mistakes or slowing | ||
Tuesday Feb 13 | ||
| Volleyball 1:45:00 [2] | |
| Much like basketball the day before, this isn't worth mentioning. We lost all 6 games, 4 against teams we have absolutely no business losing to.
Our full team is only 5, and we only had 3 of those 5 play, so we have commitment issues with the other 2. We found two last-minute subs, and well, they were sub-par (I can't fault them too much, as they helped us out big time). After a pretty bad opening pair of games, I wanted to focus on making as few mistakes as possible, and over the last 4 games, I only made 5 errors that cost us points (served into the net, was out of place on a dig, set it up for the other team, hit it out of bounds, and passed one out of reach of the setter. So, out of 100 lost points, I was only responsible for 5 or them. I've never focused specifically on not making any mistakes before, and it seemed to work really well, even against the hardest hitting of the bunch. | ||
Monday Feb 12 | ||
| Basketball 30:00 [4] | |
| We had a basketball game, and I played on a sprained ankle (because I'm too stubborn to rest).
We all played like we had two sprained ankles. And sprained hands, and sprained brains. I should have rested it, because we were so worthless that it wasn't worth playing. | ||