Training Log Archive: Leif

Run before class with Kali. Some of my calf muscles are still sore from tis weekend, but it felt good to get out. I must be very cautious about over training here in the first month of training. I have a tendency to get excited.

The snow is coming!

I had a solid technical race though I there is major room for improvement. The whole weekend I felt that I could use a nice dose of confidence to run fast when I was alone in the woods. This likely exists from my divorce from the sport (competitively for several years) and a definite lack of training both physically, technically, and mentally. That said I felt very calm and more mature wrt control over my emotions and excitement.

Errors

Control 4 (lost : did not look at leg before I ran it, did not have an explicit plan, parallel error, need to trust compass more, and I needed to simplify.

Control 6: too hesitant coming into the control -- Need a specific plan before I start the next control.

Control 10: Need specific plan.

Control 11: too hesitant due to a lack of plan with specific point where I can know my location for certain.

Control 16: too hesitant through the green... largely due to the lack of a specific plan.

Control 17: Distracted by another, faster, runner and did not have a detailed plan.

Take away: Need to make plan for the next leg while running to the control before that leg. I need to improve my fitness overall. I need to spend more time on maps.