Training Log Archive: cporter

Easy jog to the studio for my pilates class.

Run home after my class. It was a really awesome way to wind down the day cause lightning kept flashing across the sky, but the rain hadn't rolled in yet!

This one is for Kris! Thanks for keeping tabs on my training log!

Lovely run around Capital Hill - perfect weather and leaves were already changing. Definitely going to be doing a lot of running around the neighborhood this fall! It hardly seems like work, it's so pretty!

C • Nice job 2

QOC Lakeneed Wood - Red
Definitely steep, and a lot of downfall, and grass over rocky areas that slowed down my already slow pace, but overall my navigation was pretty clean with just a few bobbles in the control circles. However, before I actually left a number of controls was a different story. I totally stopped myself from a 180 (which I seemed to keep wanting to do for the fist half of the course) that would have resulted in adding a lot of extra climb - I've only made a single 180 in my entire orienteering career, so it was really strange to keep catching myself orienting myself in the opposite direction control after control. I don't know what that was about. There were quite a lot of people at each of my first controls, and they were being shared by multiple courses, which could have explained why I kept letting myself get pulled out of the control going the wrong way, or it could have been due to the fact that there was a lot of directional change with one leg going uphill the next going down that made it easy to misread contours. Dunno. At least after the first catch where I'd already taken a few steps in the wrong direction, I started double checking myself, and with good reason!

Red - Splits

Red course at Hickory Run - well, at least I got out orienteering. I'd like to say it's because I was at Hickory Run, and not because I've hardly orienteered in the past months that my navigation was so terrible. On top of the poor navigation, my ankle still hasn't recovered fully from rolling it at HR a couple of years ago, so I'm still wearing a brace, that is not really meant for orienteering making running through the woods, especially the junky-green in HR pretty difficult, but I won't use that as too great of an excuse, even if my ankle was in tip top shape, the rest of me hardly is, and I was definitely feeling the effects of fatigue towards the end of the race. Still, it was a gorgeous day, that even made the woods at HR feel wonderful!

Red - Splits

Event: DVOA Hickory Run Training Weekend
 

Pace-counting and precision compass training - mostly walked a training course put together by Greg Balter. We had a course, but it was not printed on an actual map, with the intention that you were supposed to pace it out on a precision compass bearing, and if you did it right should be within the control circle and able to see the control.

Map memory/map simplification training exercise - Greg designed a star course which we were supposed to run mostly from memory after taking about 20 seconds before each leg to memorize and then run at a little faster than your usual orienteering pace.

Night-O - walked the intermediate course with Ryan. He did all of the yellow controls, and then I tried to get him to help me with the route choice for the orange level controls, and then I'd do the navigating to the control.

Intermediate - Splits

SSS - Bethesda Street-O. This was a really fun SSS training put on by Nadim. The course kind of reminded me of the spring on the Lehigh University campus at DVOA's Chasing the Star meet a few years back. Downtown Bethesda has lots of little small alleys and multi-level public areas, and many walls blocking your way. Despite the tricky navigation, I only had one issue (which definitely cost me and several others a few minutes) and otherwise felt great if not terribly fast (although don't let that 4.9k fool you, there wasn't one route choice that didn't involve running around something to get to the control, so it wound up being a much longer race. But, that just prolonged the fun!

Thanks to Nadim and Peggy for a great training and BBQ afterwards!