Training Log Archive: Nielsen

( 5.4k nominal ) Awesome course! Excellent map! and nice open woods in *some* areas. There are some tough fight areas for sure which made for some great route choice legs, especially for such a fast race. I arrived at the start after my name was called but made the stupid decision to start anyway rather then just wait for another slot. So my time started and I was still putting my map in the map case, clearing and checking, fumbling with my foot pod and watch, etc. So not only did I start about a minute behind but I was all flustered running to one. I didn't even notice that I had no clue sheet until I got to the second control. There was one on my map but I didn't think of that right away. First couple were clean oddly enough but I was pretty hesitant and lacking rythm. Somewhere between c3 and c4 things started to click and I was starting to move faster and cleanly. I had one poor route choice that cost me maybe 30-40 sec but other than that I did about my best. Had the start gone smoother I may have been able to take off another 2-3min. Overall though, I feel as if I'm improving quite a bit.

Awesome sprint course, exchanging up and down a good size hill several times between beach park, woods, and upper camping area. Varied open park and wooded controls making for a technical but fast race. I personally felt pretty crappy having run a hard middle and eating too close to the race. Also I took a nap and woke up about 20min before my start. Not sure if I'll ever be good at sprints.

Three rounds. Erin and I won all three. Had a great opening round with 32sec. Closest team being 42sec. Second round didn't go so well with a disappointing 35sec for us, but held because the closest team was I believe 39sec for that round. Third round came around and the Canadians tried there best to gain a victory over the soul US representatives by conveniently announcing that the previous 2 rounds were just qualies and that the third and final round was the only round to count.

Pressure was on with numerous teams placing their best times of the competition. A team of two gents (forgive me for not knowing their names) put down a blistering 33sec just one second form our best time. We were the last team to go for all or nothing. 28sec! PR, CR, world champions! USA defends.

P.S. I believe Mike Waddington's dad caught the race on video. Someone might be able to convince him to throw it on the net.

C • Congrats to you and Erin!!! 3

MEDIUM -1 - Splits

Event: Nav-Stock
 

( 4.?k nominal ) Felt great to get out and run after the long drive. I took it rather easy, walking the hills and no pushing to hard through the thick under brush areas. Great map, very accurate.