Training Log Archive: hkleaf

After a 19-hr trip, finally arrived in Shenzhen from Sanya by bus! At least we were able to get off the island and away from the typhoon.

Brief warm up jog around event centre with Brian.

Trying to stretch out the legs after the long bus trip. Everything seemed tight.

Shenzhen TTHike Club Event #3 - 筆架山福田河, Shenzhen, Guangdong
Men's Elite Course: 4.15km, 13c, 40m (1:5000, 5m) standard foot-o/micro-o, plus 0.63km, 17c, 19m (1:750, 1m) 100m-O
~30C, partly cloudy, humid

This was some kind of special format. The course has a regular course with 13 controls, 3 of which also function as micro-o controls. Then the 2nd part switches map and scale to 100m-O, before finishing with a penalty loops.
Navigation was pretty simple. It was my first experience with micro-o, and I was too impatient to figure things out properly, so I got 2 of the 3 punches wrong. The 100m-O portion was slow, as it took time to get into the map, but I didn't make any mistakes there.
Even with the 2 penalty loops for wrong punches, I managed to get the fastest time and a camping mug for prize!

Stuck in Sanya due to typhoon/T.D. Swan.

Rest day after the competitions ended. Went with a big group to a hot spring nearby, getting bit by tiny little fishes.

C • bit by tiny little fishes 4

All China Student Orienteering Championships - 南新農場, Sanya, Hainan.
Team Competition

Went swimming/wading in 大東海 in the afternoon, and ran back and forth along the beach barefoot with Xiao Hei. Fun times.

All China Student Orienteering Championships - 黄猄林场, Sanya, China.
Middle Distance Men's Elite Course - 4.4km, 18c, 150m
Warm, humid, overcast.

The race was held in a rubber tree and mango plantation. So there were white woods to run thru, and a decent trail network for getting thru the dark green. Started around noon after all the students have gone out. One big mistake at #15, plus a few other minor hesitations. Overall not terrible, just slow. Winning time was just under 30min.

Moderate temps, cloudy, some breeze - Evening run along the beach. This time I went east of the hotel towards downtown Sanya. 27:31 out. Did some fartlek on the way back. It was hard to run fast on loose sand, but the feeling was awesome on the few occasions I managed to "float" along...

Weren't allowed to run in the 100-m event, so I was just a spectator and tourist at 大小洞天. Map scale today was 1:1000, with controls very close together everywhere. I stood at a spot where I could see at least 15 controls!!!! Many folks had a perplex look running around in circles. My friend who ran the course said it had the feeling of an ultra sprint.