Training Log Archive: Tim C

Event: South African Orienteering Championships
 

SA middle champs at Grabouw- Eikenhof dam. Had an okay run, just way too many small mistakes.
#1 Started off way too quick and didn't look at the map properly, so went too far left of + too far past the control and took my time to re-locate ( 50 seconds )
#2 went around the thick stuff on the road, but then turned too early( went down a river that I thought was the road) ( 25 seconds )
#3 was very hesitant as map didn't really match what I was expecting in the area, stopped a bit early and took my time into the control. ( 20 seconds)
#4-7 fine
#8 headed too far right (SE) of the control (20 seconds)
#9 stopped a bit early before carrying on (5secs)
#10 went round the left off the 1st hill and between the next too hills expecting to find the control there, but ended up too far west of the control ( don't think a read the map properly here ) (15secs)
#11 got pulled off by a lower re-entrant ( 20secs )
#12 fine
#13 didn't see the stony ground at 1st, so started heading further up the hill towards the boulders before realising my mistaked (20secs )
#14 went to far left of the control to some other boulders ( 30secs)
#15 struggled to read the vegetation properly and headed off too far left ( 15secs)
#16- bit slow out of 15 and then should've properly gone straight instead of down the river ( 5-10secs)
#17 fine
#18 was struggling to interpret the map and ended up to far right of the control and then took some time finding it once in the circle ( 30secs )
#19+20 just a bit slow once near the control ( 10secs)
#21 came out of 20 in the wrong direction and went to far right and had to readjust ( 20 seconds )
Finish- headed off too far left and then struggled to get through the bushes ( 25 seconds)
So about 5 minutes of mistakes which really isn't great, need to work on not getting distracted by similar features+ other people. Finished 3rd- 3min back on Mike and 2min back on Brad.
Running distance was probably about 7.5km

Course 1 - Splits

Wanted to test out the new O-rocks before tomorrow, so stopped off at a random forest in Grabouw and went for a short run. Shoes+ forest were awesome!! :)

Summer is definitely here!!!

Travelling back