Training Log Archive: oxensdIn the 7 days ending Oct 14, 2017:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | |||||||
Saturday Oct 14, 2017 #
11 AM
Orienteering race (8.85km / 12.19 min/km) 1:47:56 [3] 6.5 km (16:36 / km) +321m 13:19 / km
Boulder Dash on Burnt Mountain, Hanover NH. Back to the NAOC 2016 map - super fun and challenging. I optimistically signed up for red / M45. Wise from various mistakes last year, I told myself from the start to navigate carefully and focus on a clean run. Which probably explains why I immediately made a 5-6 minute mistake on #1! It wasn't particularly hard, I was just sloppy and unfocused. This terrain is unforgiving if you lose contact!
The rest of the course went fairly well, until #12 that is (see below). To #2 I initially thought to go straight, but as I made my way to the first path I noticed the that I could run on trails to the east almost all the way, so changed my plan, pretty sure that was the faster route choice.
I stayed focused with no mistakes until #12....plan was to go straight and locate myself along the valley with various swamps some 100m before the control. I found one of the open swamps without problems, and thought it was the narrow one to the left of the line. Then I compounded the error when I came upon a control by a boulder and concluded the open swamp must have been the one further west/southswest. Following that logic, I ran a good 200 meters NE, and was soon thoroughly lost. Nothing fit, I saw about 6 other controls, ran up to each one hoping beyond hope...Then decided that I had to relocate by finding the large path to SW. Happily I did, right by the open narrow swamp, and from there easily found the control. By that time I had realized my original error - the open swamp I came to was the round-ish one to the right of the line. Classic parallel error. Ted told me afterwards he thought going straight was too risky, boy was he right!
19-20 minutes lost on #12, plus 5-6 minutes on #1.
Frustrating, but at least I missed fewer controls this time on this map than last year! Still a fun day, this map and terrain truly demands full attention 100% of the time!
Map and GPS track here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxensnas/Archive/Archive/...
The rest of the course went fairly well, until #12 that is (see below). To #2 I initially thought to go straight, but as I made my way to the first path I noticed the that I could run on trails to the east almost all the way, so changed my plan, pretty sure that was the faster route choice.
I stayed focused with no mistakes until #12....plan was to go straight and locate myself along the valley with various swamps some 100m before the control. I found one of the open swamps without problems, and thought it was the narrow one to the left of the line. Then I compounded the error when I came upon a control by a boulder and concluded the open swamp must have been the one further west/southswest. Following that logic, I ran a good 200 meters NE, and was soon thoroughly lost. Nothing fit, I saw about 6 other controls, ran up to each one hoping beyond hope...Then decided that I had to relocate by finding the large path to SW. Happily I did, right by the open narrow swamp, and from there easily found the control. By that time I had realized my original error - the open swamp I came to was the round-ish one to the right of the line. Classic parallel error. Ted told me afterwards he thought going straight was too risky, boy was he right!
19-20 minutes lost on #12, plus 5-6 minutes on #1.
Frustrating, but at least I missed fewer controls this time on this map than last year! Still a fun day, this map and terrain truly demands full attention 100% of the time!
Map and GPS track here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxensnas/Archive/Archive/...
Friday Oct 13, 2017 #
Event: UNO Boulder Dash
8 AM
Treadmill 22:41 [4] 5.0 km (4:32 / km)
Meant to run more this week, but too much work...
Calf muscle felt ok, slight warning sign around 4km but seemed to go away.
Calf muscle felt ok, slight warning sign around 4km but seemed to go away.