Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

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...

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...

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.

http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...

Ill

Sore throat, headache, swollen glands, temperature.

Tired today. My knee is much better. Today's run was 850m vertical descent on a scree path. So that'll test it to see if is really better.

http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/show_map...

Bubo day 5.

I have updated all of the DOMA maps for this week to the proper map files instead of grainy pics.

This was supposed to be one of my late starts, but like the other one, it was moved to an early start to fit in with Ray's. Not good. Today was greener than other days. Not mad for it at the start - feeling v lethargic - but got into it after a bit. i run off adrenaline in races, and there perhaps hasn't been enough of that this week. not enough competition, not feeling 100% fit. Still loving it though, so that's all I care about. No adrenaline made for a tough week. awesome terrain though - i'd highly recommend it. Big misses at number 1, and 14, another minute at number 12, but got my nemesis, Danish Bo on M45 on the day and overall. As I won all days, I won overall too. Peach juice and cheese - v practical!

Time for a few days running in the hills near Bled before the OO Cup starts. Nice. I am a bit tired, but the mountain paths look too cool...

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