Training Log Archive: niamh

Event: EUOC Burns Weekend - City Race - incorporating bto SOUL1 / SoSOL 4
 

Edinburgh Urban Race. 5th, +5:38 to Tessa. First non-Edinburgh resident! Wet wet wet, driving rain and 4 degrees. Wasn't very sharp in places and need to work on some aspects of urban orienteering, changing speed and looking up amongst them. Just needs more practice to get a slightly better flow. Sub-optimal route choice to 1 and possibly 24. Missed micro-route choices at 17 and 19. Lost 1.5 min at #9 in the building complex. Possibly quicker to go north out of 24 and avoid the stairs. Lost some time on 7 due to a locked gate that shouldn't have been locked. Pleased in general. Great course. The map could do with a bit of work in spots, e.g. the long, uncrossable wall east of #8 wasn't there at all, and a number of people ran straight through where it should have been. All-in-all a really good challenge.
Results
Map (Part 1) missing 3-5
Map (Part 2)

C • nice! 5

Event: FWTN #6 - King's Buildings
 

Warm-up with Caoimhe

EUOC Fight with the Night at King's Buildings, Edinburgh. 18th/1st female. Slow to get into the map and wasn't making quick decisions or reading ahead much; caught in a dead-end at #10. Not a great run but served a good warm-up ahead of the street race tomorrow.
Results
Map (no route)

Run back to Shea's with Caoimhe.

Strength at home, including the Myrtl routine that I came across recently for hip flexibility for trail running. I'd previously done a few of the exercises in the routine, but the donkey whips were new, and hard.

NightO on Curragh with Ruth and Don. Great company! Shaky on the first part of the first corridor, and in the middle of the second corridor. Otherwise good, although having put out the tags last Saturday made it distinctly easier. Note: need reflective tags.
Map

C • Map 5

IMRA Howth Winter hill race. 43rd/269 and 3rd female. Fairly technical with lots of rocky ground/tree roots; muddy in parts too. The trail was too narrow in a lot of places to pass people so might have been better to start hard. Had a ding-dong battle with Emma Hand but she got away from me on the last descent and I couldn't make up the ground at the end, gave it everything but legs had nothing left. Caoimhe won the junior women's. Hopefully will do a few more hill races this year.
Results