Training Log Archive: maprunner

Going to a local meet this morning. Plan is to look up, move quickly and cleanly. Still trying to make it back to 10 min/k on orange. May be tough today, given the course setter and hills and several inches of fresh snow.

I'm embarrassed. I'm humiliated. I'm depressed. For the first time in 20 years of orienteering, I mispunched. Unfortunately, I have skipped controls with e-punching. But, until today, I had never punched at an incorrect control that I thought was mine, and moved on through the rest of the course.

Mike and I punched together at my 9. I always get flustered when I see Mike on a course (I need to learn to deal with this). Then I took off running too fast, ran too far, realized my mistake and turned back towards 10. As I climbed back up, I saw a control marker. I went to it, punched and moved on. Usually, I check the control code, but I admit I've gotten lazy at local meets. Totally mindless, totally unforgivable. I stopped looking at my map, I stopped thinking.

Controls 3 and 11 were misplaced; 8 was misdrawn. Parallel error from 4 to 5 cost me time, I'm sure, plus it was no fun.

A bad day. Map and route.

C • Mispunch... 5

Went to west campus and jogged around the fields. Walked 10, jogged 30, walked 5. Felt good to finally get over the 30 minute barrier; I had been close, but never quite did it in recent weeks. This is the longest run I've done since January 2009!

It's been a bonus week at work. Tonight I wore my new shoes, purchased with our annual $100 fitness allowance, and yesterday was my 5-year anniversary, which comes with a nice letter and a $500 gift card. WooHoo!

Now I'm sitting here, watching the city commission meeting on TV, waiting to see Mike present the trash audit.

C • Hooray! 5

C • your shoes 4