Sunday Mar 18 |
 | Running Smooth 45:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up/cool-down. |
| Orienteering City/Park 53:20 [4] 6.7 km (7:58 / km) | |
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| Had not planned to go to Victoria this weekend, but changed the plan on Friday evening, when Andrea said she would like to visit the area.
The race was at the university campus, and mostly in the forest around it. I must say I really enjoy these races that Vico puts on. It's great to go away somewhere and get the feeling of a real race that you did not plan yourself. Sometimes though, the course planning is not very high quality, since most of the members are recreational. This time there were a few really good legs, but also some pretty terrible bingo controls. And one control was also misplaced.
I lost around 10 minutes, half of that time was my own mistakes and the other half was searching for crazy bingo controls in dark green and the misplaced one. Thomas was 10 minutes faster than me, but had 5 minutes of mistakes himself. He is flying now! |
Thursday Mar 15 |
| Running Smooth 37:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up/cool-down. |
| Orienteering Forest 50:00 [3] | |
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| Night orienteering at Watershed on the small sprint map. Thomas planned forked Farsta loops. The orienteering was fun, but insanely difficult. |
Wednesday Mar 14 |
| Orienteering City/Park 30:00 [3] | |
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| Setting controls for the WET. |
| Running Smooth 30:00 [2] | |
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| Picking up the pin flags. |
Tuesday Mar 13 |
| Running Smooth 5:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up. |
| Orienteering City/Park 47:44 [4] 8.2 km (5:49 / km) | |
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| Course at Champlain Heights. Idea was to run at race pace. I pushed really hard. The course was simple, it had some route choice, but nothing was difficult about the nav. Thomas was 4 minutes faster than me. Wow, he is fast now... |
Monday Mar 12 |
| Running Smooth 30:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up/cool-down. |
| Intervals Hills 12:00 [5] | |
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| Intervals at the usual stairs at UBC. Did 5 repeats and felt really good. Managed to double step the lower part consistently and then keep a decent pace the rest of the way. I'm improving.
2:25
2:23
2:21
2:20
2:22
All I need now is some real orienteering... I'm desperate. Maybe I'll fly to Detroit for the US Team Trials? |
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| C • Victoria event 6 |