Training Log Archive: AliC

Running around the model map. Good to see what the artificial fences will look like both on the map and in the terrain. Legs feel well rested and brain was pretty with it despite time change and all. But racing will put both of those to more of a test tomorrow!

There was a very narrow passage between a building and olive green with the olive green taped as OOB. Missed the passage on my first pass of that control - gotta see those ahead of time tomorrow!

My plan is to run as fast as I can while the orienteering is simple, but respect when any thing looks tricky. In that case: 1) find the way(s) into control 2) find a not-terrible route that connects to a way in. I don't have to always pick the *best* route - often when the choices are hard in a sprint it's because the two ways are very equivalent. Without any contours on this map to make one route hilly versus not, there shouldn't be too many things that will make a route be bad that won't be easy to see.

I also did a 1cm pace-count, in case it is helpful for going full speed until there should be a narrow passage opening. (Otherwise easy to slow down looking for it.) At a good clip on flat, it seems like I have 11 paces to 1cm = 40m.

Here's hoping I have enough speed and brains to make it through the qual!

C • Run well! 9

Arrived in Helsinki, slept 6+ hours on the flight as planned, so hopefully jetlag won't be too terrible. Goal for today is to just absorb as much daylight as possible during the day to reset body. Now off to Riga and meeting up with teammates!

C • Welcome to Europe 13

Jogged over to the Riga city center where the area is embargoed except for a few roads, which you are allowed to use. So I walked those and got a feel for where Saturdays races will be!

Woke up at 4am for the journey to begin!

Sooooo hard to say bye to Sylvia in Chicago (she and Tom headed off to Rochester, where they will be busy visiting grandparents and also get to see aunt, uncle, cousin, 2 x great aunts, 2 x great great aunts!). I was a wreck. This is my first time away from her for even a single night and it's 9 nights in a row.

Last pre-WOC stroller jog! Was up at 4:30am and Sylvia woke up ~6am so we hung out for an hour before daycare. Going to miss her sooooo much during WOC!

Read UW campus map on the way there, Seattle Pacific on the way back. Two people commented about the empty stroller on the way back. I mean, how else are you supposed to run your baby to daycare?

C • empty stroller 8

Reading WMOC M35 sprint qual map while jogging around the canyon.

Chill Pilates.

Bah, forgot to set my 5am alarm, so woke up late at 5:30am (trying to get closer,timewise, to Latvia).

Could feel the legs were used yesterday on my warmup. Good.

2k Halprin Open Space Sequence sprint training

Didn't push as hard as yesterday, but tried to have good flow, reading ahead well, including control descriptions. Course again could have been trickier, but was good to have more training around buildings. Is a neat little map!

Lost good flow twice: didn't have my choice to 8 figured out when I punched 7 (should have immediately turned around). And also the trickiest control of the set, 19, I wasn't prepared for when I left 18 - perhaps lulled into a sense of things being easy from previous controls.

Clark College

Never been to a local sprint map, so thought it'd be worth a training! Goal was full speed. Got close to that, which is good, but the courses (both this and the next) weren't set particularly trickily - there could have been much more in-and-out of the alleys of buildings and such and would have been better training.

No mistakes, one control I couldn't get at b/c construction.