Saturday May 17 |
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| Event: BC Championships / Sage Stomp
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 | Running Smooth 20:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up for the races. |
| Orienteering Forest (race) 16:13 [5] 2.5 km (6:29 / km) | |
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| BC champs sprint at the Stake Lake ski stadium. Lots of running on the ski trails and it felt like an easy runner's course when I was out there. Had a pretty clean race, except a 35 second mistake at 10. Read the map as if the control was on a spur, but it was actually a depression. Was very surprised to end up with the second fastest time on the course after Thomas. I guess people got tricked into relaxing too much by the course looking so easy and then making mistakes. |
| Orienteering Forest (race) 41:20 [4] 5.5 km (7:31 / km) | |
| (injured) |
| BC champs middle (which was a chase start based on the sprint). Course started on the ski trails with some fast running. Coming out of 2 I started running the wrong way on a trail and lost 15 seconds. On the way to 4, through a clear cut, I twisted my ankle pretty badly. The pain stunned me for 30 seconds and then I continued to hobble along to punch the control. Trail running to 5 the pain was subsiding a bit and I decided to continue, but I couldn't run with a normal confident stride. Brian May caught up to me at 7 and I was just able to hang on to him in the technical part of the course. Coming back out on the ski trail at the end of the course, I again stepped slightly wrong on the ankle and the pain was severe. I lost another minute on Brian jogging into the finish.
Foot is now swollen with a red streak from some internal bleeding. Just hope that I can recover before the Western Canadian Champs at the end of June and then all the O in Europe after that. Really disappointing, as I was just clear of the knee problem that troubled me for a year. |
Wednesday May 14 |
| Running Smooth 20:00 [2] | |
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| Warm-up/cool-down. |
| Orienteering City/Park 25:12 [4] 5 km (5:02 / km) | |
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| WET at UBC on a spiral course! Fun route choice. Legs felt ok, but not as good as on Sunday. |
Tuesday May 13 |
| Running Rough 1:12:00 [3] 12.7 km (5:40 / km) +400m 4:54 / km | |
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| Trail run in the cold May rain. Again, a feeling of winter conditions. Ran over to Seymour river. Wanted the check out the terrain north east of the Rice Lake map. Unfortunately, not much there of value to map. |