Training Log Archive: BrandNewMeIn the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2014:
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Sunday Aug 31, 2014 #
12 PM
Off-road running 1:19:32 [3] 7.2 mi (11:03 / mi)
slept:7.5
Nice run in the pentlands with graeme. It sorted out my niggly Achilles. Good.
Saturday Aug 30, 2014 #
3 PM
Orienteering - training 52:00 [3] 5.7 mi (9:07 / mi)
slept:5.5
Feeling lethargic after working until 1 in the morning, and a morning at glentress, running after Lucy who was biking.
Some sprintervals. Not really sprinting then resting, more running and stopping. Good way of getting out of the house. Feeling v fat and unfit - probably because I am!
Some sprintervals. Not really sprinting then resting, more running and stopping. Good way of getting out of the house. Feeling v fat and unfit - probably because I am!
Friday Aug 29, 2014 #
6 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.5 (sick)
Still ill. Coughing all night, and feeling generally a bit crap.
Thursday Aug 28, 2014 #
7 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:7.5
Feeling a bit gah still from my cold and still behind with work so stressed, and training doesn't start officially until monday, so a lazy day!
Wednesday Aug 27, 2014 #
7 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.0
Lucy up all night. Took a lie in and got to work at 8 instead of 7 as planned.
7 PM
Orienteering - training 1:00:00 [3] 5.0 mi (12:00 / mi)
Esoc o training - blackford hill. Good compass practice. Just the exercises I need. Then a jaunt around the blackford and hermitage permanent controls. I took a short cut straight across the hermitage valley. Bad move. Going up the south side it was just lose soil and v steep. Kept skidding back, at one point over a craggy bit. Fun apart from that, which was a bit scary.
Tuesday Aug 26, 2014 #
Note
(sick)
Still ill.
Monday Aug 25, 2014 #
Note
(sick)
Man flu. A nice day of planning training.
Sunday Aug 24, 2014 #
12 PM
Orienteering - race 35:06 [3] 3.7 mi (9:29 / mi)
slept:10.0 (sick)
Purple thistle day 2 medium.
Decided on waking I was not going to run, but it is hard not to when there is a course planned and controls hung and you rarely get that opportunity.
After Lucy's histrionics yesterday it was only fair to take Laurence out alone do he didn't have to wait the whole time. Ray ran first, then I went out and Laurence and ray went out and we left (a rather put out) Lucy at the download tent. Thanks Strain family and James T. She always stops crying and cheers up as soon as I have gone.
Anyway, skipped the lengthy queue to start as I felt guilty for dumping her so wanted to be back quick. Got the map, pegged it off down a track. This must be the path on the map. Not a lot made sense, but I could see the green trees so found the control easily enough. Turned out I had run down the ride. I only realised as Ray was wondering afterwards why Dixie (who set off after me) ran off down the ride at the start. Then I looked at the map, and realised. 2 and 3 fine. 4 was a seriously odd bit of terrain, but I found it after a small miss. 5 - 8 were ok, but I was taking it easy as I was ill. 9 up the hill, trying to make the map fit. I should have just taken a bearing, as the map was somewhat unreliable. I ran over the stream without seeing it at all too. Relocated off the kids control. It was on the ride. It must be a ride / something crossing but what? Then I realised this must be the stream.
Bit of a wobble on 13 but fine. I need to concentrate more on my confidence going into controls. Ok running considering I felt so shit.
http://www.purple-thistle.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#5
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Decided on waking I was not going to run, but it is hard not to when there is a course planned and controls hung and you rarely get that opportunity.
After Lucy's histrionics yesterday it was only fair to take Laurence out alone do he didn't have to wait the whole time. Ray ran first, then I went out and Laurence and ray went out and we left (a rather put out) Lucy at the download tent. Thanks Strain family and James T. She always stops crying and cheers up as soon as I have gone.
Anyway, skipped the lengthy queue to start as I felt guilty for dumping her so wanted to be back quick. Got the map, pegged it off down a track. This must be the path on the map. Not a lot made sense, but I could see the green trees so found the control easily enough. Turned out I had run down the ride. I only realised as Ray was wondering afterwards why Dixie (who set off after me) ran off down the ride at the start. Then I looked at the map, and realised. 2 and 3 fine. 4 was a seriously odd bit of terrain, but I found it after a small miss. 5 - 8 were ok, but I was taking it easy as I was ill. 9 up the hill, trying to make the map fit. I should have just taken a bearing, as the map was somewhat unreliable. I ran over the stream without seeing it at all too. Relocated off the kids control. It was on the ride. It must be a ride / something crossing but what? Then I realised this must be the stream.
Bit of a wobble on 13 but fine. I need to concentrate more on my confidence going into controls. Ok running considering I felt so shit.
http://www.purple-thistle.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#5
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Saturday Aug 23, 2014 #
3 PM
Cycle commute 1:39:00 [3] 8.0 mi (12:22 / mi)
slept:8.0
Purple thistle. Day 1. Mighty.
I took the kids around the baby thistle first (disqualify me if you like, but carrying Lucy uphill to the start for half a mile easily outweighed any advantage). Punching start, and I got Lucy to punch first as Laurence was going to do all the navigating, so he should definitely get the faster time. After punching first, she then decided she didn't want to punch first, and had a grade 1 strop. Compass, map, dibber chucked away, foot stamping, yelling. Not even I have done that before. She continued like this for the rest of the course, so I was glad to set off to the start alone later in the day.
I got 1 ok, but missed two by doing a parallel error. I was feeling shocking in the terrain. It was v rough, and my shoes just didn't fit properly - my foot was rolling around too much, and I should have had dobbs as it was slippy as there was lichen in the heather. 1-7 I spent a lot of time feeling exhausted, face down in bogs. The navigation was ok though, 8 too, though I stopped for a major lace re-tieing so it looked like I missed it. I missed 9 by getting confused by extraction lanes, and 11 I got caught in green forest, that was exceptionally wet. The branches were so low and the marsh so deep i got a bit panicked that i was going to drown. claustrophobia. deep breaths! Missed 12 a bit, missed 13 a lot. I was so tired I was sauntering by now and was going to quit but the last bit looked nice. I treated it as training and did it slowly and it was nice. I was so tired though, and sweating buckets.
I wasn't surprised to get a cold later on in the evening. In fact it is nice to have a reason for feeling that dire!
http://www.purple-thistle.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#4
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
I took the kids around the baby thistle first (disqualify me if you like, but carrying Lucy uphill to the start for half a mile easily outweighed any advantage). Punching start, and I got Lucy to punch first as Laurence was going to do all the navigating, so he should definitely get the faster time. After punching first, she then decided she didn't want to punch first, and had a grade 1 strop. Compass, map, dibber chucked away, foot stamping, yelling. Not even I have done that before. She continued like this for the rest of the course, so I was glad to set off to the start alone later in the day.
I got 1 ok, but missed two by doing a parallel error. I was feeling shocking in the terrain. It was v rough, and my shoes just didn't fit properly - my foot was rolling around too much, and I should have had dobbs as it was slippy as there was lichen in the heather. 1-7 I spent a lot of time feeling exhausted, face down in bogs. The navigation was ok though, 8 too, though I stopped for a major lace re-tieing so it looked like I missed it. I missed 9 by getting confused by extraction lanes, and 11 I got caught in green forest, that was exceptionally wet. The branches were so low and the marsh so deep i got a bit panicked that i was going to drown. claustrophobia. deep breaths! Missed 12 a bit, missed 13 a lot. I was so tired I was sauntering by now and was going to quit but the last bit looked nice. I treated it as training and did it slowly and it was nice. I was so tired though, and sweating buckets.
I wasn't surprised to get a cold later on in the evening. In fact it is nice to have a reason for feeling that dire!
http://www.purple-thistle.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#4
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Road running 10:00 [3] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Friday Aug 22, 2014 #
11 AM
Cycle commute 30:00 [3] 2.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.0
Cycle home.
Thursday Aug 21, 2014 #
9 AM
Cycle commute 30:00 [3] 2.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:8.0
Cycle to work. Nice.
5 PM
Road running 48:35 [3] 6.3 mi (7:43 / mi)
Run home. Felt good, not least because I was under time pressure to get home in time to go to a show at the festival. Achilles only started aching at the top of Morrison street, so slowed. Then met the glorious Alex McEwan in the meadows and had to stop for a 10min chat, so really sprinted the rest if the way home.
Wednesday Aug 20, 2014 #
12 PM
Road running 27:48 [3] 3.52 mi (7:54 / mi)
slept:6.0
Achilles achey in the morning when sat at work. I took some ibuprofen and it wasn't so bad on this slow, flat-ish run around the industrial estate, up to the canal and back via suntrap. So ridiculously tired, I knew I had to do the run at lunchtime, as I will be too exhausted later. I need to concentrate more on getting early nights or I'll end up ill.
Tuesday Aug 19, 2014 #
8 PM
Road running 45:00 [3] 5.0 mi (9:00 / mi)
slept:6.0
Jogging around slowly, around the meadows. Catching up with first Crabster, Ali McN and Megan, then Graeme and the Eadeses. Home via Hector's. good. After a day at home doing crappy stuff, it was a relief to get out of the house. No cycle commute. I had to take an impropmtu day off work.
Monday Aug 18, 2014 #
6 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.0
Nice morning for it. Legs felt great. Achilles has not been stiff in the morning at all yet, so that is a good thing. Hope to get running later, but so much on right now...
Sunday Aug 17, 2014 #
11 AM
Off-road running 25:00 [3] 2.0 mi (12:30 / mi)
slept:7.0
Warm up / down
Orienteering - training 45:00 [3] 3.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
(injured)
Sauchie. Some middle training Jase sent me a while back (ta). Nice. Just seeing how the nav is going, and how mr Achilles likes terrain. He prefers it to sprint training. It's an odd little area, which I think I have been to most often as a night o. In the day you realise that the boulders are TINY and the dot knolls are actually just old root stocks with moss on them, and there are plenty of newer unmapped rootstocks around. I think the area might be easier at night. Good training for next winter...
No BSBM for me. Too injured to want to enter sprint races, and it is a heck of a long way to run a middle.
No BSBM for me. Too injured to want to enter sprint races, and it is a heck of a long way to run a middle.
Saturday Aug 16, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Achilles. Resting it. Hoping that terrain might be ok tomorrow.
Friday Aug 15, 2014 #
Note
I was planning on orienteering on Sunday in a Stirling direction(Sauchie poss). Anyone interested in joining me?
6 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.0
Got to work at 6:40. That must be a record.
6 PM
Off-road running 49:58 [3] 5.73 mi (8:43 / mi)
I had an unexpected sliver of time. Blackford, braids and home. Calf and Achilles not happy. I'm not sure if its going to get worse again.
Thursday Aug 14, 2014 #
9 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.5
I am really clever these days. I know what will wind my achilles up. Like doing a sprint race with no warm up or warm down, then road running, every day, after not doing much road running for a while.
I wish I was clever enough to know how to stop myself from doing things that I know will wind my achilles up. Its not bad, just v slightly niggly. But frustrating all the same.
I wish I was clever enough to know how to stop myself from doing things that I know will wind my achilles up. Its not bad, just v slightly niggly. But frustrating all the same.
12 PM
Cross training 48:13 [3] 4.0 mi (12:03 / mi)
Lunch time bike ride. This was the usual HW, Currie, Harlaw Balerno route. Faster than usual. I'll have to extend it, maybe by repping the hill, next time.
Wednesday Aug 13, 2014 #
Note
My tiring morning run was made tolerable by thinking of the inspiring performances of Jo Pavey last night. The paper had some interesting quotes about her take on being a mother and an athlete.
She hasn't been to training camp in 6 years, and thinks she wasted a lot of training doing a lot of travelling. This time two years ago one of the things that was stressing me out was that I thought that I couldn't give everything I wanted to be able to give to orienteering as I couldn't commit to going on the training camps that I thought that I ought to be going on. Now I am much more laid back about this. I did the European Champs and WOC this year, never having been in the terrain beforehand. I don't think my performances sufferred massively as a result. If I have not trained in the terrain before, I automatically give the navigation more focus than I would otherwise, and the masses of geeking I did with Nick before the Norweigian world cups and WOC ensured that I stood on the startline with the confidence in my abilities to navigate well. The other advantage in not going on training camps is that your training is much more consistent. No missed days from travelling, when the kids are at school, and I am at work, it is the same training week in week out. Consistency really does make a difference, but it is hard in the school holidays, and times like now when the school are 'easing' Lucy in by only going in for half days...
The other thing she said that was interesting was that it was nice that she no longer thought about whether she ought to be stopping and having children. I never had any desire to go to WOC when I was having my kids, and certainly didn't have the problem of deciding when to break off an illustrious international orietneering career to have kids, but its great having had them, that I can just enjoy orienteering, and not think about having to do well this year as it will have to be my last because I'll have to stop mucking around and have kids. So she's 40, and is thinking of Rio 2016 when she'll be 42, does that mean I ought to be thinking of WOC 2019?
She hasn't been to training camp in 6 years, and thinks she wasted a lot of training doing a lot of travelling. This time two years ago one of the things that was stressing me out was that I thought that I couldn't give everything I wanted to be able to give to orienteering as I couldn't commit to going on the training camps that I thought that I ought to be going on. Now I am much more laid back about this. I did the European Champs and WOC this year, never having been in the terrain beforehand. I don't think my performances sufferred massively as a result. If I have not trained in the terrain before, I automatically give the navigation more focus than I would otherwise, and the masses of geeking I did with Nick before the Norweigian world cups and WOC ensured that I stood on the startline with the confidence in my abilities to navigate well. The other advantage in not going on training camps is that your training is much more consistent. No missed days from travelling, when the kids are at school, and I am at work, it is the same training week in week out. Consistency really does make a difference, but it is hard in the school holidays, and times like now when the school are 'easing' Lucy in by only going in for half days...
The other thing she said that was interesting was that it was nice that she no longer thought about whether she ought to be stopping and having children. I never had any desire to go to WOC when I was having my kids, and certainly didn't have the problem of deciding when to break off an illustrious international orietneering career to have kids, but its great having had them, that I can just enjoy orienteering, and not think about having to do well this year as it will have to be my last because I'll have to stop mucking around and have kids. So she's 40, and is thinking of Rio 2016 when she'll be 42, does that mean I ought to be thinking of WOC 2019?
6 AM
Road running 55:00 [3] 6.5 mi (8:28 / mi)
slept:6.0
Lucy starts school today, which means I have to work 7:30 - 11 to be back in time to pick her up, which means a v early start. She woke me even earlier (5am) crying that she doesn't want to go to school. Oh dear.
Tuesday Aug 12, 2014 #
12 PM
Off-road running 50:05 [3] 6.3 mi (7:57 / mi)
slept:10.0
Same run as yesterday. Feeling less tired (I went to bed at 7 last night, so despite being woken twice by Lucy in the night I had some much needed sleep), a bit perkier, but slight knee inflamation and calf feeling slightly dull. Ibuprofen.
More good sleep tonight and more junk mileage and I'll soon be a bit more upbeat again.
More good sleep tonight and more junk mileage and I'll soon be a bit more upbeat again.
6 PM
Road running 1:03:25 [3] 7.3 mi (8:41 / mi)
Run home from work, taking in Corstorphine hill, ravelston dykes and the roseburn path. Calf dead still, and I sort of hit the wall at corstorphine (maybe sleeping through dinner last night was not such a good move afterall), but I picked up on Ravelston Dykes. Love a bit of junk mileage when I'm feeling shit / stressed / down. Mmmmm. Running into work tomorrow too, then I'll have to calm down or my niggles will start flaring up.
Monday Aug 11, 2014 #
12 PM
Off-road running 50:55 [3] 6.2 mi (8:13 / mi)
slept:7.0
HW loop. Tired and grumpy, like my knee, and calf a bit. Trying to run all three of us happy. The jury's out as to whether it worked.
Sunday Aug 10, 2014 #
2 PM
Orienteering - race 11:08 [3] 1.7 mi (6:33 / mi)
slept:8.0
Race 1 esoc ultra sprint. Felt strong. Scratched my eye (not too badly thank goodness) going into 6 so a but slower here.
Orienteering - race 10:42 [3] 1.85 mi (5:47 / mi)
Race 2. Dropped time at 3 otherwise good.
Orienteering - race 10:41 [3] 1.75 mi (6:06 / mi)
Good. Enjoyed it.
Felt remarkably fit fast and strong throughout. Nice to feel so, so injury free. I've probably spoken too soon though. My Achilles would have liked a warm up / down but logistics wouldn't really allow it.
Felt remarkably fit fast and strong throughout. Nice to feel so, so injury free. I've probably spoken too soon though. My Achilles would have liked a warm up / down but logistics wouldn't really allow it.
Saturday Aug 9, 2014 #
Note
slept:8.0 (rest day)
First chance to go running was at 9pm when I was exhausted from a full day. Any other time of the year I would have forced myself out, but not in August and the day after a hard session.
Friday Aug 8, 2014 #
Note
Sprint training. Oh how novel. None done for ages, as it has been the v worst for aggravating niggles and since I haven't run sprint at woc for 2 years, there has been no point. Sprint is one discipline that you need to train, train and train at to get the pacing, flow and the thought processes right. I used to like sprint a lot, and it suits me as I am a quick decision maker, but I am not sure whether I want to do it at woc next year. It's a discipline that I know I can do well at, but I am fairly satisfied with the 7th I got in 2012, I enjoyed the forest disciplines at woc this year, just concentrating on forest was easier, and do I really want to risk getting injured? Now's the time of year to find out if / how much sprint still inspires me, so i am doing a few weeks of sprint training before race the castles to see if my body can survive, and if I can still run a decent sprint race. We've yet to decide if we are going to BSBM. See how much I am enjoying the training.
I have done very very few sprint races since woc 2012. This is all of them -
NOrT, Sept 2012 - injured, heart and mind not keen, did badly
JK sprint 2013 - 2nd
BOC 2013 - rtd injured
Scottish sprint champs - mispunched
WOC sprint selection races 2014 - did badly - off the back of no technical and v little physical training so hardly surprising.
JK 2014 - rtd, heart and mind and body not in the least bit keen.
I have done very very few sprint races since woc 2012. This is all of them -
NOrT, Sept 2012 - injured, heart and mind not keen, did badly
JK sprint 2013 - 2nd
BOC 2013 - rtd injured
Scottish sprint champs - mispunched
WOC sprint selection races 2014 - did badly - off the back of no technical and v little physical training so hardly surprising.
JK 2014 - rtd, heart and mind and body not in the least bit keen.
1 PM
Road running 18:00 [3] 1.8 mi (10:00 / mi)
slept:6.0
Little sleep. Ill kids.
Warm up / down
Warm up / down
Orienteering - training 38:05 [3] 5.0 mi (7:37 / mi)
Courses from Esoc ultra sprint from Feb this year. I missed out a few of the prologue controls and added a few of my own instead, due to the map not printing out entirely. 20:00mins. Felt hilly, and tiring. The course was a bit urban for my liking. Chase 18:05. This was much more like it. I was more tired as I only had 5 mins rest (no map bag, thunder about to start) but the course was much more fun, the controls coming thick and fast. I fell hook line and sinker for a trap. Glad I wasn't doing this race in the chasing start format the race had been in - it would have been painfully fast running.
Physically my calf - which I haven't felt for weeks - was slightly sore, but apart from that, no niggles.
Physically my calf - which I haven't felt for weeks - was slightly sore, but apart from that, no niggles.
Thursday Aug 7, 2014 #
4 PM
Off-road running 45:32 [3] 4.19 mi (10:52 / mi)
slept:6.0
Managed to snatch enough time for a run. Bonaly, round capelaw, up to Allermuir, then top of capelaw and back via bonaly reservoir. Hilly. Felt good. Could have done with off road shoes. My Sayanora are a bit too 'road race' for off road like this.
Wednesday Aug 6, 2014 #
Note
slept:6.0
Travelling. Tired.
Tuesday Aug 5, 2014 #
10 AM
Orienteering - race 50:00 [3] 5.3 mi (9:26 / mi)
slept:6.5
Oo cup day 5.
Tired today, and not very inspired by the course. It was a bit of a cross country race in between bits of woods on an alpine meadow. Tired, so tired. Lots of mistakes, mainly at the end. My mistakes got little sympathy at the finish from Kate Hampshire, who managed a 50min mistake yesterday. Jen Murphy had a 37min leg too. Impressive stuff - they were both v proud! Anyway, a poor run meant 3rd overall.
It has been a fun fortnight, but I think that's enough orienteering for me for a bit. If anyone wants to go sprint training in Edinburgh, I am up for some. Little and often would be best for my body. 20mins max a day.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Tired today, and not very inspired by the course. It was a bit of a cross country race in between bits of woods on an alpine meadow. Tired, so tired. Lots of mistakes, mainly at the end. My mistakes got little sympathy at the finish from Kate Hampshire, who managed a 50min mistake yesterday. Jen Murphy had a 37min leg too. Impressive stuff - they were both v proud! Anyway, a poor run meant 3rd overall.
It has been a fun fortnight, but I think that's enough orienteering for me for a bit. If anyone wants to go sprint training in Edinburgh, I am up for some. Little and often would be best for my body. 20mins max a day.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Road running 12:00 [3] 1.0 mi (12:00 / mi)
Warm up and down. Then after the 6 min warm down jog it was onto the M/W10 course with Laurence, Ella and Kim. 2.3 hilly k. Last thing I needed, but fun again.
Monday Aug 4, 2014 #
10 AM
Orienteering - race 1:08:48 [3] 5.3 mi (12:59 / mi)
slept:8.0
Oo cup day four. Another totally lame navigational performance. Dropped maybe 6 mins in total. Too bad. Fabulous forest though. Loved it 100%. I think I probably won the day, but not by enough. Still 3rd overall. 37secs off 2nd, 1:37 off the lead.
Woc middle is a year today, which seems a good incentive to get navigating more cleanly. Starting from tomorrow. A year of accurate orienteering..?
Just looked at the splits from today. Despite first start, I had a lead of 1:31 by number 2 today, 8 mins into the race. I made 7 mins of mistakes. This takes the piss. Come on Claire - get a grip!
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Woc middle is a year today, which seems a good incentive to get navigating more cleanly. Starting from tomorrow. A year of accurate orienteering..?
Just looked at the splits from today. Despite first start, I had a lead of 1:31 by number 2 today, 8 mins into the race. I made 7 mins of mistakes. This takes the piss. Come on Claire - get a grip!
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Sunday Aug 3, 2014 #
12 PM
Orienteering - race 37:48 [3] 3.4 mi (11:07 / mi)
slept:6.0
Oo cup day 3
Holiday orienteering is a strange concept to me. They are races, but you don't mind how you do cause you're just having fun. So the plan for these two weeks was to have fun, and the results don't matter, as long as I don't let myself do sloppy orienteering. And today I wax unforgivably sloppy. Worse of all a 7 min mistake caused by a blunder in the general direction of number 3. After that I didn't really have the heart. It was a boiling day.
So tomorrow I am going to have to so prep to make sure I am not going to be sloppy tomorrow.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Holiday orienteering is a strange concept to me. They are races, but you don't mind how you do cause you're just having fun. So the plan for these two weeks was to have fun, and the results don't matter, as long as I don't let myself do sloppy orienteering. And today I wax unforgivably sloppy. Worse of all a 7 min mistake caused by a blunder in the general direction of number 3. After that I didn't really have the heart. It was a boiling day.
So tomorrow I am going to have to so prep to make sure I am not going to be sloppy tomorrow.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Saturday Aug 2, 2014 #
12 PM
Orienteering - race 1:07:48 [3] 6.3 mi (10:46 / mi)
slept:8.0
Felt better today. Still sweating lots when running but no headache or swollen glands helps. Just a cold now.
Good on most except for poor direction out of 6 costing 1 min, and terrible 12 costing 4mins. Got away with it and won again.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Good on most except for poor direction out of 6 costing 1 min, and terrible 12 costing 4mins. Got away with it and won again.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...
Friday Aug 1, 2014 #
11 AM
Orienteering - race 46:31 [3] *** 5.6 mi (8:18 / mi)
spiked:13/17c slept:9.0
Felt dire but had to keep going as it was day 1 of oo and every day counts. A few misses. Could maybe have gone 3:30 ish quicker without them, but feeling so ill I couldn't have run faster.
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