Sunday Jul 29 |
 | Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 2 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
| Warm up. Don't remember if I did a cooldown jog or not, but it would have only been 2 minutes or so if I did. |
| Orienteering 2:35:29  12.8 km (12:09 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
| COC Long, Eb's Trails. Made fewer mistakes then yesterday, and was quite clean aside from a 9:30 boom on #5 (attacked from the south but wasn't careful, ended up at the trail 100 m west of the control, so I attacked from there but somehow ended up at the trail 200 m north of the control, then was smart and took the trails around to attack successfully from the east). Also lost 0:30-1:00 on #2, #15 and #24, and made a few 0:15 bobbles for about 13:00 lost time. Only making one mistake bigger than 1:00 or so on a 12.8 K course in this terrain is easily my biggest accomplishment of the weekend. But perhaps that happened only because I was moving quite slowly (not intentionally, just not in shape to maintain a good pace and/or the heat (low 30's C) affected my speed). Wil Smith won with 1:59:37, and I was pleased to within 30%. Thought I was moving too slowly in the last half (was walking quite a bit) but given the heat and terrain, nobody was moving particularly fast. Wonder how much faster I would have been had I been able to keep up a decent pace. I got the impression that I did a good job of stopping little bobbles from becoming big booms again today. |
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10 - Splits |
Saturday Jul 28 |
| Orienteering 56:30 [4] 4.2 km (13:27 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
| COC Middle, Eb's Trails. Very challenging forested terrain with lots of small countour detail and not-too-good visibility. Winning time wasn't much under 9 min/km (Patrick with 37:37). A recent storm that caused some blowdown didn't make it any faster. Many good orienteers made lots of mistakes. As a result, I actually could have easily took bronze with a clean run (I could've done about 42, and Wil Smith was third Canadian with 46:37). First time I've had a shot at medalling in the elite. However, I was one of the many who made lots of mistakes. Lost about 2:30 on #1, 1:30 on #5, 0:30 to 0:45 on #9 through #12, 5:30 on #13 and 3:00 on #14. Think I did a good job of correcting some of my mistakes. Did well in relocating after missing #1, and in correcting after getting a bit off-course on #10, #11 and #12. #13 and #14 were bad though. Wasn't picturing #13 right... it was in a small depression, on a small spur that lead into a lower-lying area. Blowdown right near the control meant you wouldn't get lucky and see it while wandering by the small depression -- you had to be right at it. I was looking around to the south for a bit, and even relocated to the open hill to the west and still missed it (though I did attack from that hill again when I finally found the control). |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 3.7 km (5:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
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10 - Splits |
Friday Jul 27 |
| Orienteering 44:15 [2] 3.9 km (11:21 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
| COC Model Event, at Eb's Trails, north of Saskatoon. Made an analysis of the terrain and what my race plan should be, which is something I don't think I've done before from a model event. Probably should do that more often, especially if the terrain is difficult or unusual. However, the middle distance terrain and most of the long distance terrain weren't all that similar to the model area (even though it was part of the same map), so my analysis wasn't as useful as it could be been. Plus I apparently forgot about the "take the trails, even if it is a lot further" part of my analysis while out on the courses (took some routes that didn't use the trails quite enough, in one case didn't look a little further off the line to see a trail option, and was too hesitant in choosing some trail routes). |
| Orienteering 15:56 [4] 2.8 km (5:41 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
| COC Sprint, University of Saskatchewan. Had good speed considering my lack of recent training. Extremely bad approaching the COCs with no training plan and not even trying to be in good shape. Oh well, if it's any consolation my navigation was too bad for me to get a good result even if I were in great shape. Lost about 0:05 hesitating near #2, and as a result didn't plan ahead for #3 and ran to a control on another course, losing another 0:20. Didn't pay attention on #15 and lost 0:20, pretty dumb mistake. Also lost 0:10 on #11 due to the description being vague. Jon won with 13:33 and Brent was second with 13:37... quite a difference from the NAOC Sprint last year, when I was within 15 seconds of both of them (I did really good, and I guess they didn't). |
| Running warm up/down 18:00  3.3 km (5:27 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
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Sprint - Splits |
Wednesday Jul 25 |
| Running 44:00 [1] 8.8 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D old |
| Around the park. Did two ~290 m sprints in the middle (times were 0:56, 0:58). |