Saturday Aug 18 |
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| Event: WOC 2007
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 | road/trail run 24:30 [1] | |
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| Morning jog along the canal before the sprint in the afternoon with Hill, Sandra and Boris. |
| Orienteering 15:30 [5] | |
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| Sprint quali. A real disappointment. I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone when I say that I was really expecting, hoping, to make the final. I bombed on #3 and lost more than 2 minutes. My slowest split for the rest of the race was 16th place, and if I ran the time that was 16th for that leg I would have been 2 minutes faster, in 9th place. Of course, should have could have would have. I did what I did. The annoying thing is that I was lost, I relocated off a field. And in the field I saw a hunters stand. I looked down at the map and oh look, a hunters stand. I attacked twice from there, and still couldn't find the control. Go to a new place to attack from and see the control. The hunters stand I found wasn't on the map, although there is one mapped in the area. I think that is just wrong. I should have used more things to clue me in - the pond, the green, the hillside, but I saw the hunters stand and everything else was erased.
I made a few other route choice errors where I lost some time, but nothing serious. I still stand by two of my routes although I can see why another way might be considered better or faster.
Really, just disappointed in myself after a years worth of training... |
Friday Aug 17 |
| Orienteering 40:00 [2] | |
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| model event for the sprint and long. Jogged around with Sandra and Hill and did some short sprints. |
Thursday Aug 16 |
| Orienteering 41:05 [2] | |
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| Long distance training. |
Wednesday Aug 15 |
| Orienteering 37:47 [2] | |
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| Long distance training |
Tuesday Aug 14 |
| Orienteering 33:11 [2] | |
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| Middle distance training. I don't remember it though. |
| road/trail run 25:00 [1] | |
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| Jogging before and after, and a bit inbetween the "400s" |
| road/trail run 5:00 [4] | |
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| Did "400s" along the canal with Hill and Viktoria. Ran fast for 75 seconds, really pushing, especially near the end of the "400." I was remembering how hard these were when I did them last week and stiving to make these feel just as hard. |
Monday Aug 13 |
| Orienteering 52:00 [2] | |
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| Middle distance training. |
Sunday Aug 12 |
| trail run 10:00 [1] | |
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| Warming up for the sprint race and looking for the bathrooms, which Hill and I never found. As I was crossing the road I also fell and cut myself up nicely :) I think I was still asleep. |
| Orienteering 17:30 [4] | |
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| The Ukrainian cup sprint race. I started a minute before Hill and she caught me going to #1. The route I picked was very good, I just executed it very badly, being dragged down the hill by other people and junky woods. Otherwise it was an ok sprint, although I did get stuck in stinging nettles over my head to #9 and Hill pulled away. We saw it all though - trash in the woods, stinging nettles, stray dogs and homeless people sleeping in the woods right in our path through the woods. It was a good start to Ukrainian orienteering. |