Training Log Archive: mgb

Setting out controls.

Putting out some more controls.

To start.

Running the blue course from last year's A-Meet. Forgot to stop my watch, my real time was 54:27 (as in the results).

Very technical course and terrain today, and it was a lot of fun. I need to get better flow though, as I was stopping way too much to read the map and being careful. No big errors apart from not getting things to work on control 8 (probably the easiest one on the course).

C • share your map! 4

Blue - Splits

Event: NEOC: Estabrook
 

Directing the meet out at Estabrook today. It was a lot of fun, and with all the help I had today, it was very easy. Finished by 2:30pm with all the controls in and arena packed up.

Notes I wrote for the web site:

It was a brisk and beautiful fall day out at Estabrook Woods with about a 100 people attending. The map needs some work (remapping in progress) so we tried to come up with a format that was forgiving but still provides some fun orienteering. We had a regular White (set by Linc) and Yellow, but then had three sprint courses with the first one at the Orange difficulty level. The course lengths were a little bit longer than you might expect, but with the woods being very runnable, especially with the leaves down, the courses became speedy and the winning times were in the low 20s.

There was some extra excitement as well with the woods shared with a simulated fox hunt with about 40-50 horses participating. Apart from making parking a little bit harder, some orienteers got some extra excitement as a whole group of horses came running towards them on the trails.

The meet was very easy to direct due to all the wonderful volunteers. Special thanks to Marcie and Linc Berkley who planned and co-directed the meet with me. Thank you to all the volunteers during the day of the meet, in no special order: Sarah Bjorkman, Ben Gallup, Pete Lane, Andy McIlvaine, Jim Paschetto, Raina Crawford, Tim Parson, Jim Crawford, Ed Despard, Aims Coney and Shaun Pimental (who both attended his first meet and volunteered at it).

Setting controls for the meet.

I have not done hills in a long time, but thought it to be a good start to get my legs moving faster again. Started easy by doing three long ones (the hill is 0.13 miles/200m):


1:04.1 (8:13 min/mile)
1:02.2 (7:58 min/mile)
1:03.6 (8:50 min/mile)

Shorter but trying to pick up the speed a little bit. The cold weather helped.

I have to get back to better consistency now. My log is starting to look like Ian's used to, with large but infrequent sessions at weird times.

C • uh oh 2

Running around the neighborhood, having to take a number of detours as many streets were closed with downed trees and wires.