Training Log Archive: jjcote

Jogging/running to the start, arriving exactly in the nick of time (maybe 5 seconds late). Got a minor beesting on the wrist about halfway through. Always good to get a flying start! :-)

US Champs, Dutchman Flat. Screwed up #2 again, and was again sloppy here and there, though probably a bit better than yesterday. Still nothing to be very proud of, though. Nice views up top! And I really enjoyed both courses, despite how poorly I did.

In the aftermath of this, nothing hurts. One blister on a toe, and some general tiredness, but no muscle or joint pain, and the fatigue is a lot less than after a lot of other things. Maybe I wasn't pushing hard enough...

Blue - Splits

Shadowed Stephen on White. He overshot #2, then after finding it made a major error in leaving, but when he figured out where he was, he took a very advanced route to get back on course. He later made a mistake leaving a control when he was distracted by another competitior.

US Champs, Dutchman Flat, Blue. Everything else pales in comparison to the preposterous error on #2, when I was supposed to climb 13 lines, but climbed about 28 instead, and relocated on a big clearing way up the hill. Still sloppy here and there after that, but at least I did reasonably well in the detailed lava piles at the end.

Blue - Splits

Hiked down to the boat in Crater Lake and back up, with the Koehlers. Waded in the lake; might have jumped off the rock if I had thought to bring my bathing suit.

Lava Butte relay with Nancy Koehler and Rachel Koehler. A bit sloppy, and took it easy for the first part, but I wound up running with Kristin Ritzenthaler, trading a lead back and forth, and we also caught two other people. I managed to give them all the slip in the last loop.

Leg 3 (Green) - Splits

Shadowing Stephen Koehler on COCC White course. He spazzed and started to cry when he first turned the map over, not understanding the parking lots, but things got much better once he was in the woods.

COCC Sprint (Bend, OR). My best sprint point jackpot for the year.

Arnold Ice Cave, middle distance. Far from perfect, but good enough for 1st in M40. Actually grabbed the wrong map, and was confused when Jim Baker caught up in the butterfly. Until I realized I had grabbed the opposite fork, I thought he had caught up 4 minutes on me.

Sprint 1 (Long) - Splits

Red - Splits

Running on treadmill in the hotel weight room. I don't think I'd ever been on one before. I had it up to 16 mph(?), but at that point Nancy was yelling that I was going to fall off the back and crash.

Event: 2005 PNWOF and 2005 USA Champs
 

Running in the dark on trails in Town Forest. The hatlamp now has gone about 90 minutes since I changed the the low-beam batteries (Manitou and tonight).

Ordinary people might be afraid to head out onto unknown trails, for fear of getting lost. Particularly so in the dark. But not me! I'm an orienteer, and have no fear of getting lost. The other thing that would intimidate some people about running around in the dark is the possibility of encountering wild animals. I did scare up one varmint that crossed the trail and hightailed it out of there fast. I wasn't quick enough on the switch to get the high-beam on it, but I'm guessing it was probably a coyote. Looked kind of tawny-colored so I guess it could have been a bobcat, but a coyote seems more likely. Much too timid to be an attack badger. But at least I haven't had to deal with the one critter that I do worry about: skunk. (Also no more FDFs out there it seems -- hallelujah!)