okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Smooth through the forest
I had an interesting experience during today's training. I suddenly began moving very smoothly through the terrain. It felt great.
Today's training was to re-run Mary's hilly/forest training course. The course is at Wyandotte and covers just 5.6 km, but is quite hilly (360 meters of climb) and most of the course is through forested terrain. For the most part, the forest is not as thick as most KC terrain. I shadowed Gene as he ran the course.
Near the end, I was running along a hillside and suddenly it felt like my running form changed a bit and I instantly picked up the pace without picking up the effort. It felt great. It may have been an illusion. I probably haven't yet done enough running in the forest for my technique to have improved. But, I like to think it was a glimpse of things to come.
If I can get in a good amount of running in the terrain over the next few months, I should be running quite a bit better come the spring A-meet season.
