Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

CSU training. Set by Pia. A really fun course. Looking back on the orienteering, I can see that I was running hard ( because it was fun) and I was trying to go race pace. I have several bad habits for short legs. Brendan was getting me to think about the routine that I use for short legs. I don't have a great one, mostly it involves knowing which way to exit the control circle and having a pretty good rough compass technique. I added some pace counting to my routine today ( I'm just starting to learn how to do this successfully) and was having a great time just running hard. So the real problems became apparent when I was running on a bearing and not even registering what sort of terrain I was passing. It started to get pretty dark, and the map was a photo copy to begin with so things were pretty faint and that made map reading difficult. I think my natural response to difficult orienteering is to just gloss over the hard stuff and hope for the best. I would just run without a plan. Not a successful way to orienteer, for all you readers at home.

Also made a series of mistakes when Brendan caught up with me in the forest, including a few minutes of unneeded crazy running on a long leg over the hill. so, lot's to improve on. But most importantly for me, I was still having fun. Can't wait for this weekend at the camping weekend.

Thanks to Pia for organizing and hanging streamers.

C • Short leg technique. 3

running home from work. felt great. well except for the sunburned shoulders. Am getting a little faster, but maybe that's rested legs and a light backpack.

am so far behind in reading my favorite logs!!

Saturday- Monday consisted of lots of fun, but nothing loggable except for some waterskiing, some swimming, lot's of playing sardines, cross country croquet, ping pong, and a really fun game of capture the flag.

for capture the flag our team had most of the fast boys on it, and sam was the only fast one on the other team. we still had a lot of running and swimming to avoid getting caught and to try to find where they had hidden the flag. Sam also chased me willy-nilly through her side of the island for a very close escape on my part.