Training Log Archive: Tim C

SA Long champs at Hawequas, Paarl.
Had a decentish race, but still messed up quite a few controls+ struggled with the running in the last part of the race.
#1+2 - fine
#3 biggest mistake of the day, didn't have a proper plan coming out of 2 and kinda just ran in the general direction, hitting a path which crossed the vegetated gully ( thinking it was the one further west) carried on along the path to where I thought the control should be ( rather confused at this stage as their were a few paths that didn't match where I thought I was). Then saw Andy and Brian running past and realised that they must be going to #8, managed to find where I actually was+ relocate ( 3:30 )
#4 overshot the control and had to come back up the hill.(15secs)
#5 not sure why, but I went down from 4, then struggled across the green and crossed the road on the other side before realising that I had come out way too low down ( 1min )
#6+7 ok
#8 just hesitant going into the control (15secs)
#9 stopped too early ( pretty sure there are more rocks than mapped) ( 20secs)
#10 not sure if the route I took was the best, but was probably the easiest to exucute, still struggled to find the control once close though- left the path a bit early and fiddled around in some other vegetation before getting to the control (30 seconds)
#11 probably took the worst line out of #10 ( went down the cliff) and then stopped too early and messed around in some rocks before carrying on to the control (1min )
#12 fine
#13 went too far north and ended up above the higher boulder cluster ( 30secs)
#14 slow out of 13 and then left the road too early and found some other vegetation 1st ( 20secs)
#15 took a bad line out of 14and ended up coming out on the higher road and then having to go back down to the control (20secs)
#16 took a while to find the path across the veg and then stopped/slowed down too early (15secs)
#17 had planned on contouring, but went too far down and ended up nearly at the road and then had to climb up to the control ( 15secs)
#18 really slow up the hill and then got a bit confused by the paths+ then got pulled off by some other features before finding the control ( 20secs)
#19-24 ok, body was just really tired.
#25 went in too early ( sure there's more veg than is mapped) ( 30secs)
#26 ok
So about 9min mistakes and probably could've cut another 3 or 4 minutes if I was a bit fitter, so I'd say about 1:15 for a perfect race.
Running distance was probably close to 14km

C • "So about 9min mistake... 2

Course 1 - Splits

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!!!