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Sunday Jan 14, 2007 #
Trail Run warm up/down 14:00 [1]
shoes: Integrators 2005
Warm-up for the long.
Orienteering race 1:20:12 [4] 13.0 km (6:10 / km) +400m 5:21 / km
shoes: Integrators 2005
Felt really strong and well focused going out on the long. Eric started 3 minutes behind me and Marc another 3 back, so it was a great exercise to try to stay focused on my race and not think about them.
Fell apart on the long leg to 8 though. I went into running mode way too soon on the way out of the 7th control thinking I could just hit the wide open area before the control, but got really confused along the way and ended up running a really bad s-curve. Lost about 4 minutes on that leg.
Marc passed me going into 8 looking really strong. I fought hard to keep him in sight, but he slowly pulled away on the way to 11. On the way out of 11 I kicked a cactus and had to stop to pull the spikes out of my toes. Surprisingly Marc and Eric passed me while I was sitting on the ground fighting with the evil cactus and I wasn't able to take off after them until they were well out of sight. Even more surprisingly I found them wandering around just past the next control and was able to punch it at the same time as them putting me right back in the fight. Eric took off in the lead and I stayed right behind him. We lost Marc to cactus a couple controls later and Eric slowly pulled away from me at the very end.
I was quite satisfied with the race except for that one long leg and of course the cactus episode, but there isn't much you can do about that. I definitely have a lot of work to do to get ready to put up more of a fight against Eric in these head-to-head battles, but I was quite satisfied with how things were flowing today. It's still early in the season, so it was definitely motivating to see that my technique hasn't drifted too much in the off season.
Fell apart on the long leg to 8 though. I went into running mode way too soon on the way out of the 7th control thinking I could just hit the wide open area before the control, but got really confused along the way and ended up running a really bad s-curve. Lost about 4 minutes on that leg.
Marc passed me going into 8 looking really strong. I fought hard to keep him in sight, but he slowly pulled away on the way to 11. On the way out of 11 I kicked a cactus and had to stop to pull the spikes out of my toes. Surprisingly Marc and Eric passed me while I was sitting on the ground fighting with the evil cactus and I wasn't able to take off after them until they were well out of sight. Even more surprisingly I found them wandering around just past the next control and was able to punch it at the same time as them putting me right back in the fight. Eric took off in the lead and I stayed right behind him. We lost Marc to cactus a couple controls later and Eric slowly pulled away from me at the very end.
I was quite satisfied with the race except for that one long leg and of course the cactus episode, but there isn't much you can do about that. I definitely have a lot of work to do to get ready to put up more of a fight against Eric in these head-to-head battles, but I was quite satisfied with how things were flowing today. It's still early in the season, so it was definitely motivating to see that my technique hasn't drifted too much in the off season.
Note
Lost one of the cactus barbs in my big toe and it was hurting quite a bit so I decided to skip the Maze-O. Too bad because it looked like a lot of fun. An hour in the jacuzzi wasn't too bad either though.