Training Log Archive: Anna

Good race. Goal was again to distinguish between hard and easy legs and run an appropriate speed, and I did very well with this. There was lots of running at the beginning, and I slowed down and navigated really well once we got to the rocks on controls 6, 7, and 8. Although I also achieved this goal 2 days ago, today I had less mistakes unrelated to running too fast. This is working, so I have the same plan for tomorrow.
I had 2 significant errors today. On the second control, I navigated well until I got within 100 meters of the center of the circle. Then, I saw a control to the left and ran to it. It wasn't mine. Next, I saw a control at the top of the reentrant to my left and knew it wasn't mine without going to it. I was fine at that point, except that all that distracted me and I ended up all the way down at the ride, thinking the rough open was the doughnut clearing just past my control. Then, I looked all the way back up and saw what looked like my knoll and climbed up to it. Very careful after that.
I also made an error on 8, but at least it was at the beginning of the leg and not the end. I had found where I wanted to go up through the rocks and took a bearing. It was a field, but I went a little to my left to what I thought looked more like my field and hesitated a lot. Eventually I went back and came up the hill with Eileen and Mary. I still wasn't confident and jogged along with them for awhile, but then I figured out where I was and ran over the spur to the knoll.
One thing that was particularly satisfying about the race was how hard I was working physically, while still able to make minimal mistakes.

Green S Day 1 - Splits

Ran back from whitewater rafting with Kat, then went to the south side of the highway (which wasn't embargoed) and ran around in the terrain and came back. Lots of deer bones and one carcass. Followed a ride part of the way and also got to run up on this amazing ridge (which was private property) that overlooks the valley and mountains.

Walked around with Kat and looked at the rock features. The knolls with bare rock were kind of tricky to recognize, and there was a lot of climb back up the hill. Got a good feel for the map.

Good run, controlled my speed, practiced looking ahead a little. A few mistakes, but not from running too hard. I'm putting comments on my splits since there're so many. I don't know when I'll get them up.

Forgot my compass at the start. Felt stupid and had to get a new start time. Got a nice long warmup (34 min.).

Green Day 3 - Splits

Watched Crystal Relay runners go up The Wall.

Cooldowns before and after control pickup with John, on dirt road. It wasn't too hilly, but I was pretty tired.

Control pickup with John, from memory. I was surprised with how much I remembered, especially my checkoff features and attack points. John had to remind me of the course a lot, though.
A good day to re-run the course, because it showed me how well I could've done without much effort if I'd just slowed down and kept in contact with the map.

I completely bombed this whole course. I was thinking "Sprint=Run fast!" the whole way, and I should've looked at each leg and decided which ones were for running and which were for being careful.

Warmup, including 2 striders.

Had to run against Sam, on the first leg. We both had to go to the lower control, but I had about 30m less to run than her on the upper one since the junior team got to let one person run shorter. We didn't need to do that, though, because by the 4th leg we were ahead by a lot.

US Team Sprint - Splits

Easy run with John and Hillary this morning (except the hill back up to the campsite, but I walked the worst part). The outside of my lower legs felt a little tight, and I think it might've been from orienteering in my running shoes yesterday. No knee soreness at all, though. Legs felt a little tired, which makes sense since this is a long week for me. Cool weather. About perfect for t-shirt and shorts.

Bought new O' shoes from Gale, threw my duct-taped soccer shoes in the dumpster.

Green Night-O - Splits

Rocks slowed me down at the beginning, then there was more open space for running.
Wore running shoes since my soccer shoes are in bad shape, and becausee my knees felt like they might be starting to get sore. They feel fine now.
I think I'll put my comments up with my splits.

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Waited around a long time for my 11:10 start.

Green Day 2 - Splits