Training Log Archive: AliC

Knee still hurts after running. Mom says its probably an insertion tendonitis, which is more than reasonable. So I should stop running and ice and ibuprofen. Will try to cease running, say after Norwottock? At least til the next weekend? Will be easier to stop running if there weren't orienteering around to do!

Neighborhood skate rollerski with Steph, testing out the "go-go" boots that it looks like I'll adopt as a hand-me-down. Woo, new boots! They were a bit small for Steph and she only used them one season. Psyched!

So, brought the little sis with for afternoon training with Neil, Wojciech and Marta at Pole Brook!! I designed a trying-to-be-orange course for Stephi to try out and flagged the first 5 controls (in the trickiest bit of woods) on the way out to the start. Think Neil got her in tune with the map a bit more on the way out to the start, and then also had her think about routes while we were there for the first few. That was definitely helpful. Because while I had made the course to what I though were distinct features and/or handrails and/or using big catching features, that's not what Stephi saw, at least, without a nudge.

I found it hard once or twice to be sure of which was the mapped boulder while flagging.

680/2000

WOC '93 short course

Meh, ok, but not wonderful. The rockiness of Harriman makes it harder to map-glance, I found. I did this training before last fall, but remembered little of it, so was still worthwhile to do again. Although the green little hill I was scared of last time, I was scared of again (4). Was off to 3, but figured that out at stream, I had been on the upper edge, near swamp, not the lower one I thought. 6 choose wrong lower green at first, realized when leaving control it was wrong and went back. 13 was fun, should have realized what side of the burm I was on earlier.

694/2000

Stephi came back and hung out at the finish waiting for me (she rocked her course in 35 minutes!), we chatted jogging on the way back!