Training Log Archive: W

COC Middle (WRE) Course 10 - Splits

COC Long Course 10 - Splits

COC Sprint (WRE) Course 5 - Splits

WCOC Sprint Course 5 - Splits

WCOC Long (WRE) Course 10 - Splits

WCOC Middle Course 10 - Splits

Another super fast run around Canmore. I have never met such macho whiny runners. They're never get to run fast enough, then they go ahead, turn around at some point to let me catch up, and then tell me about how going this slow is bad for their training. So bloody annoying.

Run around upper Kananaskis Lake. Got partway up the lake and discovered an uphill to some lake which we did and then went down and continued around. Relatively fast pace, but I got to lead for a while so I got to control the pace. If I'd let those other guys do it who knows how fast we went. Took a dip in the lake afterwards, bloody freezing.

Basic orienteering course in the morning. Not happy about my bearings, and most definitely not happy about my distance gauging. Too many controls where I was generally going in the right direction, but assumed I had gone way further than I had, which made we wander off in the wrong direction. My brain matched up the incorrect terrain to the map simply because I really wanted it to be right.

Direction out of controls was also not great.

If I were unhappy about this morning, I was less happy about the afternoon's THOMASS race. The first control was fine, then the rest were just not smooth. The first two I climbed too much or started getting restless about not finding the control simply because I hadn't descended enough. Then the flat ones were again a product of poor compass bearings, I was generally in the right direction, but got cold feet and went off on a tangent when I felt I was no longer on track. Is this a product of poor bearings? Or poor confidence in poor bearings? I don't feel that I CAN trust my compass, but when I don't, I discover I was better off sticking to it.

C • map contact? 1

SURPRISE! Evening intervals. Got back to Canmore, and the guys were heading out to do some uphill intervals on the Canmore Challenge course. So, what does a guy do? Slam a chicken pot pie, and go hammer them out. Didn't regret the pot pie, but did get rather tired.

AOA training camp, several exercises, terrible bearings, blah blah blah. Same ol' same ol'.

Just one orienteering exercise today at the training camp. Would have liked to do the morning exercise but the "MASTER COACHES" who promised to leave the controls up let people take them down anyway! JERKS! I can only assume its some sort of secret ploy to prevent me from training. Definitely a conspiracy.

Orienteering training around somewhere... near Cranbrook. Ran with my sister and tried to do what some might call "coaching". I likely did more harm than good.