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Sunday Mar 31, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 1:12:00 [3] 11.5 mi (6:16 / mi)
Jk long. Cold ash.
Ran it in a rather odd way in purpose. Focused totally on technical stuff, so as a result was a bit ploddy, but pretty pleased with how it went. Small misses, but probably not the 5 mins I was down on cat in total. Exhausted now, totally exhausted. Analysis later.
Aforesaid analysis. as i said, i ran it differently than i usually would on purpose. focusing on what i was doing, and not the speed at what i was doing it. interesting to try a new approach, but not getting the usual physical buzz. massively enjoyed trying something new, and got a solid, if not spectacular run out of it. I was not at the jk this year wanting to win, but wanting to get some solid runs in with 100% concentration on me, no distractions with worrying about results wtc. great to see cat's success. She deserves it. What a hard worker she is. I'm striving to get you next time cat! You are inspiring me.
The running felt pretty ploddy and slow. 3 I was going straight, and good, but lost confidence and veered off about 20m before the control and dropped 40 secs. Didn't check direction out of 4 and dropped 5-10 secs, 7 same as 3, was going well, lost confidence when I was maybe 5 metres off and veered the wrong way. 20 secs.
8 didn't read the descriptions right, 10secs.
11, really hesitant 10secs
12 - came out of 11 bad direction and didn't correct soon enough 15secs
13 was really tricky. Wanted to find the path to make it safer but it was not too obvious and hard to find so spent a while trashing around in holly. 30secs
14 again loss of confidence in what I was doing. Just missed it, hut the road and come back. 1min
After this bit I decided I ought to be running a bit faster, and the trickiest but was done, so conciously picked up the pace. Didn't hit 19 directly, 10secs
20 I took in a green forest and stream I neededn't have bothered with that was shitty. 5 secs. 21 racing andy Munro and a bit off line 10secs. 22 still racing andy and he had a different control. Not paying enough attention. Offline. 20.
Then crap bearing to 24. Tired and wanting to finish. 20secs.
This has been a tough few months for me, but I have a lot of ideas as to how to approach the summer races in a better frame of mind this year. I wanted to have fun and I did. I'll take some time out to plan the next few months now. Many thanks to all who have helped me recently. I'd name you but you are all way too modest for that!
Ran it in a rather odd way in purpose. Focused totally on technical stuff, so as a result was a bit ploddy, but pretty pleased with how it went. Small misses, but probably not the 5 mins I was down on cat in total. Exhausted now, totally exhausted. Analysis later.
Aforesaid analysis. as i said, i ran it differently than i usually would on purpose. focusing on what i was doing, and not the speed at what i was doing it. interesting to try a new approach, but not getting the usual physical buzz. massively enjoyed trying something new, and got a solid, if not spectacular run out of it. I was not at the jk this year wanting to win, but wanting to get some solid runs in with 100% concentration on me, no distractions with worrying about results wtc. great to see cat's success. She deserves it. What a hard worker she is. I'm striving to get you next time cat! You are inspiring me.
The running felt pretty ploddy and slow. 3 I was going straight, and good, but lost confidence and veered off about 20m before the control and dropped 40 secs. Didn't check direction out of 4 and dropped 5-10 secs, 7 same as 3, was going well, lost confidence when I was maybe 5 metres off and veered the wrong way. 20 secs.
8 didn't read the descriptions right, 10secs.
11, really hesitant 10secs
12 - came out of 11 bad direction and didn't correct soon enough 15secs
13 was really tricky. Wanted to find the path to make it safer but it was not too obvious and hard to find so spent a while trashing around in holly. 30secs
14 again loss of confidence in what I was doing. Just missed it, hut the road and come back. 1min
After this bit I decided I ought to be running a bit faster, and the trickiest but was done, so conciously picked up the pace. Didn't hit 19 directly, 10secs
20 I took in a green forest and stream I neededn't have bothered with that was shitty. 5 secs. 21 racing andy Munro and a bit off line 10secs. 22 still racing andy and he had a different control. Not paying enough attention. Offline. 20.
Then crap bearing to 24. Tired and wanting to finish. 20secs.
This has been a tough few months for me, but I have a lot of ideas as to how to approach the summer races in a better frame of mind this year. I wanted to have fun and I did. I'll take some time out to plan the next few months now. Many thanks to all who have helped me recently. I'd name you but you are all way too modest for that!
C • fun 3
Saturday Mar 30, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 30:47 [3] 5.6 mi (5:30 / mi)
Jk middle
The plan according to t was to make sure there was a plan. And good compass. And focus on your plan when you see others.
Jittery start. Not much confidence in compass to 1 even though it was right, so hit the brambles and ploughed through.
Not a great direction out of the control to 2 but good
3 I was a bit dithery as I couldn't really decide how to attack it, and ended up in the brambles too much, but the plan was to see the green below, and that eorked well.
Contoured around the top of the green to 4 and in off the veg. Easy
Straight to 5, not great up the hill. Ditto to 6, which I used the veg.
Ditheredon plan to 7, and ended up right of the fence, then up the hill rather than around the bottom, but I was sorely tempted by the lower route. Good in the end though.
8 slow up the hill, 9 good plan - perfect. 10, 11, 12 good compass and plan so fine. Ditto 13. 14 ran through the rough for a bit then up to the track, south of the houses, then up. Rest fine.
I know I said trossachs and Craig a Barnes really suit my technique, but this forest does too and I always run well here. Lots of distinct veg to go off.
I was very relaxed today, and I enjoyed it as much as I can when it was eyeballs out running. Inflamed my sinuses now, just from running in such cold air. Pleased with how I stuck to the plan, and the plan worked well. Slightly different game plan tomorrow. Really don't care how I do, just going to have fun, which is great!
The plan according to t was to make sure there was a plan. And good compass. And focus on your plan when you see others.
Jittery start. Not much confidence in compass to 1 even though it was right, so hit the brambles and ploughed through.
Not a great direction out of the control to 2 but good
3 I was a bit dithery as I couldn't really decide how to attack it, and ended up in the brambles too much, but the plan was to see the green below, and that eorked well.
Contoured around the top of the green to 4 and in off the veg. Easy
Straight to 5, not great up the hill. Ditto to 6, which I used the veg.
Ditheredon plan to 7, and ended up right of the fence, then up the hill rather than around the bottom, but I was sorely tempted by the lower route. Good in the end though.
8 slow up the hill, 9 good plan - perfect. 10, 11, 12 good compass and plan so fine. Ditto 13. 14 ran through the rough for a bit then up to the track, south of the houses, then up. Rest fine.
I know I said trossachs and Craig a Barnes really suit my technique, but this forest does too and I always run well here. Lots of distinct veg to go off.
I was very relaxed today, and I enjoyed it as much as I can when it was eyeballs out running. Inflamed my sinuses now, just from running in such cold air. Pleased with how I stuck to the plan, and the plan worked well. Slightly different game plan tomorrow. Really don't care how I do, just going to have fun, which is great!
Friday Mar 29, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 13:05 [3] 3.0 mi (4:22 / mi)
Jk sprint
Finally jk time, and the first serious orienteering I have done since world cups. I was ridiculously nervous, as orienteering all got a bit disheartening for many reasons at the end of last year, and this weekend is a real test for me to see if I can enjoy big races. I thought yesterday that if I could only get through today's sprint, I would go into the other races a bit more relaxed, and I am much more chilled tonight so that's a good sign.
The race passed in a bit of a blur, as ever. Time losses came after punching 7, I removed my emit brick from the control and it pung into the bushes, then I really grappled with punching 8, then going to 9 I didn't see that you could get through near the building, so went all the way around the out of bounds. I went west to 11, then tried to run right next to the building the control was on around a bush then came up to an uncross able fence, so went back around. These three cost me 26secs, but I was happy with my position, and happy to be able to put the race behind me.
Didn't stay for the prize giving. Pretty antisocial but am feeling a bit drained just now, and the kids were cold. I am focussing on running the races well this weekend, with as little stress as possible. Prize givings are not of interest to me when there is still running to be done in the forest.
Finally jk time, and the first serious orienteering I have done since world cups. I was ridiculously nervous, as orienteering all got a bit disheartening for many reasons at the end of last year, and this weekend is a real test for me to see if I can enjoy big races. I thought yesterday that if I could only get through today's sprint, I would go into the other races a bit more relaxed, and I am much more chilled tonight so that's a good sign.
The race passed in a bit of a blur, as ever. Time losses came after punching 7, I removed my emit brick from the control and it pung into the bushes, then I really grappled with punching 8, then going to 9 I didn't see that you could get through near the building, so went all the way around the out of bounds. I went west to 11, then tried to run right next to the building the control was on around a bush then came up to an uncross able fence, so went back around. These three cost me 26secs, but I was happy with my position, and happy to be able to put the race behind me.
Didn't stay for the prize giving. Pretty antisocial but am feeling a bit drained just now, and the kids were cold. I am focussing on running the races well this weekend, with as little stress as possible. Prize givings are not of interest to me when there is still running to be done in the forest.
Sunday Mar 17, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 1:16:00 [3] 6.8 km (11:11 / km)
Trossachs brown. Bit of a beast, terrain, navigation, and map-scale wise. Had been looking foresrd to this but lack of sleep I think, or coming down with something, meant I wasn't feeling the buzz today. Bummer. To 1 slow and I went over a few contours I needn't have. 2 was tricky, was running it too fast, then slowed up and got it right. 3 easy. 4 thought the hill it was on was covered in green trees, so was mucking around on the hill west of the control for a bit. 5, 6 easy. Enjoying getting to run a bit. 7 was shite. Bit of a parallel error. Saw small marsh on right, big marsh on left and thought I was near the control. Too soon. Faffed on the open hill for a bit, before sorting myself out a bit. 8, 9 easy. 10 took too hilly a route at the end, climbing more than I needed to. 11 slightly confused as to where the crag was but it was tucked around the knoll out of sight. Walked up to the knoll taking a gel. 12 Contoured around, nice fast running. Slightly low of the control. 13 thought just run down, but it was craggy, and heathery, and hard to see the crags under the heather so I went round about a bit. 14 went straight. Much slower. 15 fine. 16 major mistake. Went up the blue dotty reentrant, not the one to the right I thought I was on. The blue dotty reentrant ended too early and I was confused. 17 not attacking but ok, rest fine.
Nice course but not as up for it as I would have liked. Shame. Making mistakes through rushing. This is much easier to do at 1:15, with a map that disintegrated gradually, as you thought well I can't make out the map so I will just run in roughly the right direction and have a good root around. Not good.
Thanks fvo for a good weekend's racing.
Nice course but not as up for it as I would have liked. Shame. Making mistakes through rushing. This is much easier to do at 1:15, with a map that disintegrated gradually, as you thought well I can't make out the map so I will just run in roughly the right direction and have a good root around. Not good.
Thanks fvo for a good weekend's racing.
Saturday Mar 16, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 34:30 [3] 5.7 km (6:03 / km)
Tulliallan middle brown
Not sure how up for this I was. My mind has been elsewhere in previous days. Achillies frustrations getting me down a bit. It's not in a bad state, in fact I think it is more soleus, but it has stopped me doing perfect training, which really gets to me. I am reluctantly going to give up my beautiful inov-8s for a while after tomorrow and hope it helps. Anyway, I never really notice injuries when I am racing, so I knew it wouldn't hold me back today, just have been struggling to get into a positive mindset.
Start to 1 crappy. Too far left. Pushing way too hard. Ditto to 2 but too far right. Hit the stream junction, jumped both streams and ran down to the bridge. 3 fine. Ran in the right direction and hit it. 4 shocking. Bearing, hit the road perfectly but thought I had gone 90 degrees right out of three and had hit a different road, so turned left, got confused at the crossroads and sorted myself out. 5 too far left, 6 wierd, hit the path beyond the control, got confused and ran back up.7 ploughed through some rodi'sstupidly, and was a bit right of it. Decided to get a grip, slow down and read the map then, so 8,9,10,11,12 were fine. Hesitant to 13, 14,15 fine, 16 poor at the start, but fine at the end. 17 fine, 18 weird but saw people punching something, so realised that's where the control was. Lost a bit here. 19, 20 weird controls. Lost lots on the fast easy bit at the end as I, as ever, relaxed too much.
Overall I found it a bit of a shock having to think so much all the time. Tiring stuff. Physically ok, not great, not dire. Not used to racing, as the nervy start showed. Nice use of a small area. Next time if you are going to so back to back maps can you tell us before. I made the same mistake at gullane, spending lots of time looking for the start triangle on the map.
Got home and realised we had invited people round to tea. Knocked up a dinner party, hosted, washed up,now it is after midnight and I can't sleep as I are too much. I'm getting up in less than 6 hours. Oh dear!
Not sure how up for this I was. My mind has been elsewhere in previous days. Achillies frustrations getting me down a bit. It's not in a bad state, in fact I think it is more soleus, but it has stopped me doing perfect training, which really gets to me. I am reluctantly going to give up my beautiful inov-8s for a while after tomorrow and hope it helps. Anyway, I never really notice injuries when I am racing, so I knew it wouldn't hold me back today, just have been struggling to get into a positive mindset.
Start to 1 crappy. Too far left. Pushing way too hard. Ditto to 2 but too far right. Hit the stream junction, jumped both streams and ran down to the bridge. 3 fine. Ran in the right direction and hit it. 4 shocking. Bearing, hit the road perfectly but thought I had gone 90 degrees right out of three and had hit a different road, so turned left, got confused at the crossroads and sorted myself out. 5 too far left, 6 wierd, hit the path beyond the control, got confused and ran back up.7 ploughed through some rodi'sstupidly, and was a bit right of it. Decided to get a grip, slow down and read the map then, so 8,9,10,11,12 were fine. Hesitant to 13, 14,15 fine, 16 poor at the start, but fine at the end. 17 fine, 18 weird but saw people punching something, so realised that's where the control was. Lost a bit here. 19, 20 weird controls. Lost lots on the fast easy bit at the end as I, as ever, relaxed too much.
Overall I found it a bit of a shock having to think so much all the time. Tiring stuff. Physically ok, not great, not dire. Not used to racing, as the nervy start showed. Nice use of a small area. Next time if you are going to so back to back maps can you tell us before. I made the same mistake at gullane, spending lots of time looking for the start triangle on the map.
Got home and realised we had invited people round to tea. Knocked up a dinner party, hosted, washed up,now it is after midnight and I can't sleep as I are too much. I'm getting up in less than 6 hours. Oh dear!
Sunday Mar 10, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering - race 1:05:00 [3] 6.6 mi (9:51 / mi)
Tayside local event Craig a Barnes. Blue.
I was quite up for this which us just as well as we had dithered driving there in the snow and split starts were going to be a challenge.
1 - pretty straight. 2 - path, cut the corner to the crag in the green, up the re-entrant with the stream and straight on. Thought it was a bit weird near the control. 3 Straight-ish which was not optimum. 4 lovely. 5 straight ish. 6 went straight. It was shitty. 7 lovely, 8,9 ditto. 10 odd veg near the control. 11 fine, 12 odd. Two crags, one much bigger than the other, only one on the map, so it was hung on the bigger crag, though I thought the smaller was more right. Came out of 12 badly, but control was easy. 14 a bit of a fluke. 15 loads of crags on the ground. I think the control was on the spur, and should have been on the one that was mostly in the green. With the map being so inaccurate I wouldn't have wanted to hang this one. 16 too far left, 17, finish fine.
A great course, great area, great to get in the rough stuff in the snow. Thanks tayside! However, it really really needs a big investment to get a new map done.... Pleased with my running and my nav. It is like the bit in the top had been designed solely to flatter my orienteering style. Just loved it. I am totally becoming a terrain snob. Between here and the jk I have tulliallan and trossachs, that place south of avberfoyle that is probably quite shitty, then a weekend in aviemore. I am worried the chilterns won't have quite the same bite!
I was quite up for this which us just as well as we had dithered driving there in the snow and split starts were going to be a challenge.
1 - pretty straight. 2 - path, cut the corner to the crag in the green, up the re-entrant with the stream and straight on. Thought it was a bit weird near the control. 3 Straight-ish which was not optimum. 4 lovely. 5 straight ish. 6 went straight. It was shitty. 7 lovely, 8,9 ditto. 10 odd veg near the control. 11 fine, 12 odd. Two crags, one much bigger than the other, only one on the map, so it was hung on the bigger crag, though I thought the smaller was more right. Came out of 12 badly, but control was easy. 14 a bit of a fluke. 15 loads of crags on the ground. I think the control was on the spur, and should have been on the one that was mostly in the green. With the map being so inaccurate I wouldn't have wanted to hang this one. 16 too far left, 17, finish fine.
A great course, great area, great to get in the rough stuff in the snow. Thanks tayside! However, it really really needs a big investment to get a new map done.... Pleased with my running and my nav. It is like the bit in the top had been designed solely to flatter my orienteering style. Just loved it. I am totally becoming a terrain snob. Between here and the jk I have tulliallan and trossachs, that place south of avberfoyle that is probably quite shitty, then a weekend in aviemore. I am worried the chilterns won't have quite the same bite!
Sunday Mar 3, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering - race 1:09:29 [4] 9.4 mi (7:24 / mi)
slept:7.5
Sol 1 gullane. Brown
Not mad for gullane at the best of times. I hate dogs, and I like trees, and I am not a mad fan of marram grass either so I had decided at the outset I was going to have no expectations of enjoying it. Best that way - then bits a pleasant surprise if you do.
Start - 1 - 2 fine. 3 - missed the small path coming out of 2 so wasted time going back, the passed just left of the control and had to relocate off the big open area. 1:25 down. 4 fine, 5 fine too. I think the young lads are more suited to this running. A bit confused at 9 as the hills before it looked massive. Got to 11 and the control was 228, should have been 230. Hummed and haaaad a bit, thought it was definitely right and ran on. Bit left on 12, then got back into it. 13, 14 fine. 15 should have been 228 but was 230. Bit confused - Did I mis punch before? - until I realised what had happened and ran on. These controls were swapped shortly after (I was an early split start). Dropped 1:12 on these controls in total. 15-22 fine, but I was getting tired. Then saw Dave r ahead so that gave me something to concentrate on. Closing him down, virtually got him at 27, then he went right, I went left, just for fun as I thought it was probably 50:50. I think I was marginally quicker, but Andrew kicked my ass, so I think left was the better route. Certainly less busy with others. 29 fine, 30 I was running along the sandy path, for what seemed like forever, so when a right came, I took it, thinking it was the one before the control. It wasn't. A bit of a magical mystery tour and I saw Dave r in the distance at the finish as I punched 30. 1:13 and the win lost here...
It was fun in the end. I probably tired / lost concentration after 40mins. The orienteering wasn't tricky, so I didn't really suffer nav wise, but in a big race I'd have had a gel. Pleased it was such a competitive race, and interesting to see the lads splits too. They definitely have different physical strengths to me.
Not mad for gullane at the best of times. I hate dogs, and I like trees, and I am not a mad fan of marram grass either so I had decided at the outset I was going to have no expectations of enjoying it. Best that way - then bits a pleasant surprise if you do.
Start - 1 - 2 fine. 3 - missed the small path coming out of 2 so wasted time going back, the passed just left of the control and had to relocate off the big open area. 1:25 down. 4 fine, 5 fine too. I think the young lads are more suited to this running. A bit confused at 9 as the hills before it looked massive. Got to 11 and the control was 228, should have been 230. Hummed and haaaad a bit, thought it was definitely right and ran on. Bit left on 12, then got back into it. 13, 14 fine. 15 should have been 228 but was 230. Bit confused - Did I mis punch before? - until I realised what had happened and ran on. These controls were swapped shortly after (I was an early split start). Dropped 1:12 on these controls in total. 15-22 fine, but I was getting tired. Then saw Dave r ahead so that gave me something to concentrate on. Closing him down, virtually got him at 27, then he went right, I went left, just for fun as I thought it was probably 50:50. I think I was marginally quicker, but Andrew kicked my ass, so I think left was the better route. Certainly less busy with others. 29 fine, 30 I was running along the sandy path, for what seemed like forever, so when a right came, I took it, thinking it was the one before the control. It wasn't. A bit of a magical mystery tour and I saw Dave r in the distance at the finish as I punched 30. 1:13 and the win lost here...
It was fun in the end. I probably tired / lost concentration after 40mins. The orienteering wasn't tricky, so I didn't really suffer nav wise, but in a big race I'd have had a gel. Pleased it was such a competitive race, and interesting to see the lads splits too. They definitely have different physical strengths to me.