Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: North American Orienteering Championships
 

It was a long walk from the car to the arena - 2.5k, with the same walk back to the car. I jogged some on the way back. I also jogged to the start and back to see the boys off, then down to the porta-pits (several contours below the arena) and back and to my start, plus a little more.

This is just a total of the jogging.

North American Middle Championships near Cranbrook, BC - "Course 7" (M45).

Finally, a decent run! Beautiful woods to run thru, with some open areas. A very nice Middle course. I kept waiting for the big mistake, but it never came. I had a few smaller errors, but nothing too bad. The worst was probably the bad line I took (too far left) to the GO control. Probably cost me 25 seconds.

My compass picked up a new bubble at this altitude, so I didn't really trust it. That cost me some time in places, but overall it may have helped, because I had to read the map more carefully, so I saw some contour-based route options that I would normally have ignored in my rush to go straight.

The boys ran well, especially Luke who claimed the North American Championship against some solid M10 competition, and Zach was 3rd in a very competitive M14 class, with a couple of small errors.

Middle - Course 7 - Splits

THOMASS race at Kimberly Nordic Center - North American Champs Prelude.

Tough to decide how hard to run this, given three more days of racing. Distance is a guess for now, based on running harder during the THOMASS section than during the Sprint. A couple of poor choices in the box, then the "Sprint" turned out to be misnamed and the climb was brutal. Walked most of the steep hills, thinking that climb would do the most damage to my legs.

Fun event! Especially with such a huge mass start. And as always, the organizers way underestimated the capabilities of the younger kids. The top finishers were 3 M12 triplets from Norway in 19:18, 19:19, 19:27 - like Luke, they only had to do 4 of the 16 THOMASS controls. Their F14 sister was 4th in 22:01, followed by Emma Waddington in 22:41 and Luke in 22:48. The top Elite was 33:09

Some uphill w/up on the way to the start, etc.

Long sprint - Splits

Thought about doing a short run, then decided a short soak would be better for my legs going into the weekend!

Hiked with Chris up Tubbs Hill in Coeur D'Alene, ID. We hiked to the summit and checked out the Point. We were out for 95 minutes, probably moving over 75 minutes.

Ran from our hotel in Post Falls, ID, west on the Centennial trail to within 1 mile of Washington and back. Like so. Several bikers were out, plus hitchhiker who was on his way back to Spokane from Virginia and was done with hitching and was just hiking the balance. Also a woman pushing a very young child in a jogging stroller, while walking the dog and talking on the cell phone.

Quite warm out there, but I had to outdo last Tuesday.

Eventually I may post my poor performances from the US Champs this weekend (perhaps right after the results are posted???), but for now I just want to whine about the meet. I don't know where to start, but I know where to end: the misplacement of a WHITE sprint control at the US Championships is inexcusable, I look at the amount of money we spent for this trip, the vacation time used up, and the Sporting Withdrawal that Zach and Luke were required to take, and I cry.

I won't even mention the long list of items that made this the most unpleasant A-Meet that I have attended.

Red Sprint - Splits

Red Long - Splits

Event: US Sprint/Middle/Long Championships
 

Red Middle - Splits