Training Log Archive: anniemac

So glad my dad is out of the hospital! He is healing fast and walking around. We just have to remind him to go slow now, not that he'll listen :)

jogged first 2 miles @ 9:40each. that's really good for me. then walked 1/2 mile, and ran rest of way.

THIS ONE'S FOR YOU POPS. (sorry it wasn't better...)

Long - Egypt Mills - Orange

it's amazing how when you go slow, you see so much more. today i just concentrated on contact with the map, and i knew where i was pretty much all the time. my big mistake was a poor route choice from 4 to 5, after my run in with the hunter. (apparently, 700 orienteers should all be wearing orange so he can go kill things in the woods.)

i was low on energy, and my legs and butt were hurting, but navigation was fairly good. i just went slow and tried not to make mistakes. i think i'm getting better at reading subtle features, like contours. but -- i want to be so much better at this. only place to go is up.

the really good news is that my dad is getting out of the hospital sometime this weekend! :)

C • great job 1

ouch!

Orange Long - Splits

Middle - Adams Creek - Brain was left in the Arena!

Hard to really process everything that's been going on in the last few days, but as far as orienteering goes...my first A meet...let's just say I finished and I was not last. Made some big fat mistakes on 3 controls - like doing a 180 (oh, my first one!) and in general, not going slow enough to be technically correct. It was a little disorganized. Also i read some contours backwards. oh my! I would say this was the hardest course I have ever done given my lack of sleep and mental fuzziness. BUT I had a great time, and the day was really really fun. There is always tomorrow. :)

More thoughts later -

Middle - Orange - Splits

Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships
 

Model Event training. This was very helpful for just getting me back in the mindset for orienteering but I have to say, my brain has left the building. I lost my cell phone and had an international team of orienteers helping me find it (I insisted they go back to their training, that I would find it eventually, but they insisted back...) Eventually we found it and I called it quits on the Pickerel Pond map. Went to 9/15 controls. Beautiful woods!!!

left hip is really sore...from the elliptical machine?? that's just stupid.

C • surgery 2

i haven't orienteered in weeks now. i feel so unprepared for competing at NAOC, my head is in a thousand other places. i guess i will just show up and have fun.