Training Archive: danfIn the 7 days ending 2006-01-15:
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Sunday Jan 15 | ||
| Orienteering race (classic distance) 44:11 [4]*** 5.71 km (7:44 / km) +130m 6:57 / km | |
| spiked:7/9c shoes: New Balance 717s | ||
| Buttes Pass Green Day 2. This was a fast, open course. Many of the controls involved long stretches of relatively mindless running followed by short technical segments. Easily my best race to date, both in terms of pace and in terms of minutes of mistakes made (about 4 minutes total). Finished in 3rd, less than a minute behind the leader.
Things to work on: My two missed controls both involved crossing wide featureless areas without a good (or really any) plan going in - I relied on my compass too much and strayed off course. I'm still not confortable I wouldn't miss on this kind of leg again. | ||
| Orienteering race (maze-o) 2:14:50 [2]***** 4 km (33:42 / km) +300m 24:31 / km | |
| shoes: New Balance 717s | ||
| Walked the course with Trish, quite sore from the previous races. This map confounds me. Several times, I knew exactly where I was on the map but it didn't make sense to me. Love the terrain though. Planned on doing five controls, but decided to find them all once out on the course which didn't make for the best choice of route. We ended up down at the start and walked back up the slot to finish. | ||
Green - Splits | ||
Saturday Jan 14 | ||
| Orienteering race (classic distance) 1:06:38 [4]**** 4.69 km (14:12 / km) +255m 11:10 / km | |
| spiked:4/10c shoes: New Balance 717s | ||
| Green Day 1 at Buttes Pass (Anza Borrego). This is the first map that I've raced on more than once. I'm not sure how much of a difference it really made, but it helped with my confidence going in. I had a good feel for the terrain, especially since I'd just gone on a couple of training runs with Trish at Yaqui Pass and Painted Gorge, both of which have quite similar terrain to Buttes Pass. Without knowing much about the competition, my goal for the weekend was to finish in the top half of runners. My last-minute goal for this race was 1:11, the only finishing time posted before my start - mostly a fun goal because I had no good feel for how long the course should take me. This was really one of my better races in non-trail-interlaced terrain, so despite "booming" one control and making a terrible route choice on another, I was quite happy with my time and place (10th). I even made my 1:11 goal time. =)
Things to work on: 1) Avoiding stupid mistakes by heading out of the control in the right direction. 2) Route choice. I took a shorter route when a longer, safer one would have been faster and then took a longer, safer route when the shorter one would have been the best. 3) Hills kill. I walked a lot of runnable sections because I was just too tired after climbing. | ||
| Orienteering race (sprint) 37:30 [3]*** 2.78 km (13:29 / km) +120m 11:06 / km | |
| spiked:8/12c shoes: New Balance 717s | ||
| The sprint race was quite fun, but I was just too tired to race hard. Missed an obviously better route choice on 4, and "wide right" on 10. | ||
Team Fundraiser Sprint - Splits | ||
green - Splits | ||