Training Archive: dlevineIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-07:
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Saturday Jun 7 | ||
| Event: NavStock Weekend | ||
| Orienteering 51:47 [4]*** 4.7 mi (11:01 / mi) | |
| spiked:10/14c | ||
| NavStock middle course
Ran down trail and decided to attack #1 through woods rather than up trail (didn't see quite how close it bent toward the control, but got a good feeling for the mapping style with a minimal cost). Got overconfident and mistakenly tried to follow yellow clearings on my way to #2; cost myself at least four minutes. In a pack to #3, but as we went up the hill, it thinned out. At the top, folks chose various routes to #4; I decided to try the straight line, hoping that white woods would indeed be open. They were and I more or less spiked it. I've seen rides like the one between 4 and 5 before and I know that the green is often not mapped well and that the whole idea is to get across and then worry about things. So, I went high, found a nice opening and went scampering down the reentrant to it. Walked the hill to 6 using the three-trail crossing as an attack (hit the second trail right at the depression). Saw a pack of people near 7 so went to them, but they were all lost (and low). I didn't pay much of a price though as my split was 1:36. Angled up the hill to the trail and saw Barb Campbell and another guy running down it. Tried to take take the angle through the 3-4 woods again, but keep going left and hit the trail at the depression just in time to see Barb running by ahead of me. She and the other guy disappeared around the corner that I was planning to attack from. When I got there, I saw the flag and them coming in from the side, but never saw the fence (control description). We all took off to #9, but I got distracted by an unmapped distinct tree 50 m shy of the control. We all took off uphill to #10, but the guy got pulled right and I punched behind Barb. 90 seconds later at #11 we all punched in and then popped over the hill to #12 where we were still together. Somehow we got split going to #13. I stayed low, contouring in, but they both went up to the trail. (Later, Barb said she went off to the left instead of the right.) I crossed the reentrants and got to the flag first, joined a new runner. He and I contoured around and took the trail to 14 and then sprinted in; okay, he sprinted and I sort of ran. Decent race considering the heat index. Beat some folks I don't normally beat, but could have been better. | ||
| Orienteering 28:41 [4]2.76 mi (10:22 / mi) | |
| Nav Stock Sprint
At the start triangle, I thought about going across instead of down the hill like everyone else, but then I decided that the road must be worth the extra distance. Stupid. I also blew the control, coming in on the lower track and turning up too soon, overshooting and ending up on the upper track short of the control. After that, #2, 3, and 4 were all good. I dogged the hill to 5 and 6, but tried to make it up on the way to 7. Going to 8, I saw the problem with the fence later than I should, but early enough that I didn't have to climb it. I cut through the field and found it. 9 was easy, but almost blew 10. 11 and 12 were straightforward, but I almost took the track to the toilets instead of to the campground for #13. Fortunately I saw Andrew do it right and saved myself a 10 second error that would have been embarrassing in front of the spectators. Not a great race, but once again, heat conquers all. | ||
| Orienteering (String) 46 [5] | |
| spiked:4/4c | ||
| World 3-Legged String O championships with Andrew Wisnewski. (First run)
First off, wearing sandals is not a good idea. We sort of got things going after a while, but then it all came undone on the stairs to the finish. Of course, we lead the "International Division" anyway. | ||
| Orienteering (String) 48 [5] | |
| spiked:4/4c | ||
| World 3-legged String-O Championships with Andrew Wisnewski (Second run)
Much better this time until the stairs. We agreed to go up two steps at a time with the outside leg, but never agreed about which leg we would start with. Arrrgh! Our time was originally announced as 38, not 48 (I wasn't taking splits) and given that the timer had stated that it was necessary for a Canadian team to win this year, we are very suspicious about the record keeping. | ||
Thursday Jun 5 | ||
| Watercize 52:00 [1] | |
| Skipped the swim this morning to rest a tired hamstring before NavStock this weekend.
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Tuesday Jun 3 | ||
| Swimming 34:00 [2]1.0 mi (34:00 / mi) | |
| Thought I was moving, but Theresa said that I was dogging it the last few laps. Pool was warm so maybe there's a connection there.
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| Watercize 54:00 [1] | |
Monday Jun 2 | ||
| Handball 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Continuous cutthroat (2-1 as opposed to rotate out). Won one out of three, but was close the other two. | ||