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Thursday Jul 14, 2016 #
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Just going to add some thoughts quickly to my log about the last few days.
Messed up the long in short. I ran the wrong leg after the spectator chute. I was about 5 min ahead of all of the Canadians at that point (don't quote me on that), and then once I checked the code at 20 and realized my mistake, I was mentally destabilized because I didn't know if I was 10, or 6min behind (turns out that I was 2 from a non-optimal routechoice, and probably 4 from the optimal). From there I lost head space and didn't push adequately for the rest of it thus losing time to that. I finished as 3rd Canadian, and had I not ran to the wrong control, I would have been first. Otherwise I would say my race was very good navigationally, I only made 1 additional routechoice error (which cost me one minute) and that was it. Through the most difficult sections I spiked all of the controls. I lost 1-2 minutes on each hill leg due to being slow and that summarizes my errors. I never really lost contact with the map for the whole run, meaning technically it was as good as my sprint.
Mistake-wise my middle qualifier was the most perfect race that I've ever really had. I made no navigational mistakes whatsoever. The only mistake that I made in the qualifier was that I did not run it aggressively enough, which might have been partly due to the rubber studs on the shoes I was borrowing, but mostly it was just the mindset that I began my race with. I finished as 2nd Canadian 1 min behind the first Canadian who was Leif and told be about the mindset he had after he made a 1 min mistake on the first control. He said that he booked pretty much each control after that and that was the mindset that I was missing.
Today was the middle final, and after getting to the start after losing my warm-up map over the course of putting on my shoes, and then getting up to the call up 2-3 minutes late, I felt quite in my element. I started out really hard after I knew where I was going and pretty much kept that up for the whole race. I pushed really hard each time that I could. I sort of remembered how hard you have to go if you want a good result. I only made one small navigational mistake where I got pushed over by a hill coming out of a control, having a bad compass bearing. I only lost 30 seconds to that, and lost over a minute on the hills. I ended up as first Canadian by at least 2-3 minutes.
I'm quite disappointed to be running on the 2nd relay team, as I would say I was consistently within the top 3 Canadians, and had I not mp on the sprint I would have been first there, 3rd in the long, 2nd on the quali, and 1st in the final. The relay is going to be more similar to the middle q and f which is my strong suit.
The explanation is that Canadians are running it as a "training" and just for "experience" which makes it difficult to push for my whole team when they are not taking it seriously. Ironically most other teams take the relay as the most important race. If it just is a training to experience different legs then it should not matter to the rest of the guys who are on the 1st team if they run on the 1st or 2nd team.
Messed up the long in short. I ran the wrong leg after the spectator chute. I was about 5 min ahead of all of the Canadians at that point (don't quote me on that), and then once I checked the code at 20 and realized my mistake, I was mentally destabilized because I didn't know if I was 10, or 6min behind (turns out that I was 2 from a non-optimal routechoice, and probably 4 from the optimal). From there I lost head space and didn't push adequately for the rest of it thus losing time to that. I finished as 3rd Canadian, and had I not ran to the wrong control, I would have been first. Otherwise I would say my race was very good navigationally, I only made 1 additional routechoice error (which cost me one minute) and that was it. Through the most difficult sections I spiked all of the controls. I lost 1-2 minutes on each hill leg due to being slow and that summarizes my errors. I never really lost contact with the map for the whole run, meaning technically it was as good as my sprint.
Mistake-wise my middle qualifier was the most perfect race that I've ever really had. I made no navigational mistakes whatsoever. The only mistake that I made in the qualifier was that I did not run it aggressively enough, which might have been partly due to the rubber studs on the shoes I was borrowing, but mostly it was just the mindset that I began my race with. I finished as 2nd Canadian 1 min behind the first Canadian who was Leif and told be about the mindset he had after he made a 1 min mistake on the first control. He said that he booked pretty much each control after that and that was the mindset that I was missing.
Today was the middle final, and after getting to the start after losing my warm-up map over the course of putting on my shoes, and then getting up to the call up 2-3 minutes late, I felt quite in my element. I started out really hard after I knew where I was going and pretty much kept that up for the whole race. I pushed really hard each time that I could. I sort of remembered how hard you have to go if you want a good result. I only made one small navigational mistake where I got pushed over by a hill coming out of a control, having a bad compass bearing. I only lost 30 seconds to that, and lost over a minute on the hills. I ended up as first Canadian by at least 2-3 minutes.
I'm quite disappointed to be running on the 2nd relay team, as I would say I was consistently within the top 3 Canadians, and had I not mp on the sprint I would have been first there, 3rd in the long, 2nd on the quali, and 1st in the final. The relay is going to be more similar to the middle q and f which is my strong suit.
The explanation is that Canadians are running it as a "training" and just for "experience" which makes it difficult to push for my whole team when they are not taking it seriously. Ironically most other teams take the relay as the most important race. If it just is a training to experience different legs then it should not matter to the rest of the guys who are on the 1st team if they run on the 1st or 2nd team.
Sunday Jul 10, 2016 #
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Oh boy I haven't been up to date with my log in the last month or so, though ironically I've probably done more orienteering during that time period then all this year (which in itself is not a great thing), but maybe if I get more motivated with my new sprint maps then I'll begin training seriously next year!
I'm not doing a full race analysis for the sprint today, I might do it tomorrow, or I'll get all of it done next week, idk we'll find out. So I'll do a little summary.
T'was a pity might I say, in conclusion, as I only really made one navigational mistake on the sprint today. I don't want to think about it too much because it really feels like a nuisance, and a relatively tiny unnecessary mistake that I should not have made. If you have seen the Men's course, then you will have seen the string of controls 4, 5, and 6. In short as I was reading the map with high frequency, I somehow overlooked 6. I believe that it was because I made a plan (which was very simple; straight) then as I looked back at the map I began reading 7 which required a more detailed plan which I then started executing. I sort of forgot about 6 in that fraction of a second, I might have refolded my map, but the interesting part was that such an insignificant leg totally killed me.
Ironically the skill level required for that control was equivalent to that of a 4 year old that doesn't know how to orienteer at all. And this simplicity was just under my radar, as I was expecting more or something harder.
Its comforting to say at least that my technical navigational skill in a sprint are adequate enough to flawlessly follow the plans that I set out, and that my only deficit is lack of training throughout the year, and just simple competition experience. Not difficult competitions with high stress and all of that, but just a larger proportion of trainings or mock races where I'm just orienteering as fast as I can to each control point. Which I haven't done nearly enough of this year and the past 8! Thus there is nothing to be down about and I just need to look forward to the next race and put this behind me.
Tomorrow is the Long, arguably my favorite event, and I reckon that it will be a special one.
I'm not doing a full race analysis for the sprint today, I might do it tomorrow, or I'll get all of it done next week, idk we'll find out. So I'll do a little summary.
T'was a pity might I say, in conclusion, as I only really made one navigational mistake on the sprint today. I don't want to think about it too much because it really feels like a nuisance, and a relatively tiny unnecessary mistake that I should not have made. If you have seen the Men's course, then you will have seen the string of controls 4, 5, and 6. In short as I was reading the map with high frequency, I somehow overlooked 6. I believe that it was because I made a plan (which was very simple; straight) then as I looked back at the map I began reading 7 which required a more detailed plan which I then started executing. I sort of forgot about 6 in that fraction of a second, I might have refolded my map, but the interesting part was that such an insignificant leg totally killed me.
Ironically the skill level required for that control was equivalent to that of a 4 year old that doesn't know how to orienteer at all. And this simplicity was just under my radar, as I was expecting more or something harder.
Its comforting to say at least that my technical navigational skill in a sprint are adequate enough to flawlessly follow the plans that I set out, and that my only deficit is lack of training throughout the year, and just simple competition experience. Not difficult competitions with high stress and all of that, but just a larger proportion of trainings or mock races where I'm just orienteering as fast as I can to each control point. Which I haven't done nearly enough of this year and the past 8! Thus there is nothing to be down about and I just need to look forward to the next race and put this behind me.
Tomorrow is the Long, arguably my favorite event, and I reckon that it will be a special one.