Training Archive: OllieIn the 7 days ending 2006-01-29:
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Sunday Jan 29 | ||
| Event: BKO Concorde Chase National Event | ||
| Orienteering race (National Event) 2:06:01 [3]**** 12.92 km (9:45 / km) +345m 8:36 / km | |
| spiked:15/26c slept:6.0 weight:156.4lbs shoes: Standard White O-Shoes | ||
| BKO Concorde Chase National Event at Cold Ash.
Oh, blimey. What went right on this race? Not a lot. I better start with the positives - lovely crisp weather, technical and enjoyable area, and my recent training means I can definitely run faster and for longer, without completely running out of energy. And the distance (almost 13km) was not a problem - I only felt really tired in a couple of places. Now the bad. I made mistake after mistake after mistake. Probably the most number of mistakes I have ever made on an orienteering event. It wasn't that it was very technical - it was a tricky area and the map was not perfect - quite a few non-existent clearings around - it was just that I made bad route choices, lost concentration, and made huge navigational errors all the way along. I know bad workmen blame their tools, but I'm pretty sure my compass was stuffed. Maybe it was that large "Emit" brick I had to carry around. And the scale was 1:15000, smaller than normal, but due to my relatively increased fitness, I overcompensated and overshot a lot. I think the main cause was I was running quite fast, thanks to my recent training - too fast, in fact, for me to navigate accurately and properly. Which kind of leaves me in a quandary as regards further physical training. I think I need to take up Armchair Orienteering in a big way and keep the mind sharp. The first control was bad. I somehow missed an obvious path, and was 30 degrees wrong, and overshot. No. 2, I again headed 30 degrees wrong, meeting control 24. But I at least spiked it. Towards number 6, I felt a little tired, and a branch spiked my eye - could have been really nasty, but my contact lens dropped out and I spent a couple of minutes fixing that. Towards number 8, my feet started cramping again (as two weeks ago) so I stopped straight away this time and relaced loosely. 10 was a bingo control and I failed to notice a good route choice. 11 was a massive error of judgement - to lose a runner, I decided to go down a road (failing to spot a much better road route), mistaked a ride for a path, got stuck in a marsh, ran back down a hill and back up again. Aaargh! No. 14 was a complete disaster, it should have been trival, but it was a very technical control and I some how ended up on the wrong path and had to do a relocation. 20 was a poor route choice. I was feeling (technically) lazy and took a long but easy route around, adding 600m to the leg by failing to spot a direct and obvious path, and then missing the (technical) control. And 22 was a complete nightmare and my worst leg of all (8 minutes for 400m!) I again drifted 30 degrees off, ending up way beyond the control, cold and very confused. I had a complete brain block, was unable to navigate and relocate, and just freaked out. Eventually I got some self control back and managed a relocation. I really hope I never have a control like that again. Looking at the leg, it was not particularly technical at all - lots of line features. Special mention of control 19, it wins Location of the Year for being in an utterly surreal place - in white (runnable forest) but the forest was completely pitch black, with nothing on the ground except needles - like a table. And the control was in the middle, glowing eerily in the darkness. It was like something out of Lord of the Rings, and was truly magical. Overall a truly fine area. Just a shame I had such a bad race on it. I've posted my splits for the race on the racing pages, to compare with lackofluke and anyone else who was doing M21L. | ||
| C • Control 19 & compass 6 | ||
M21L - Splits | ||
Thursday Jan 26 | ||
| Spinning long (Self Program) 27:05 [3]10 km (2:42 / km) | |
| ahr:163 max:155 slept:7.0 weight:155lbs shoes: Gym Trainers | ||
| This was a pretty pants workout - I was going to go for 15km, but stopped early as I was struggling on the easier settings... Perhaps I shouldn't have had a snack shortly before the session, or perhaps it was was just a stressful day at work. Oh, and my right knee twinged a lot, and again on the walk back home - the injury was back in January 2003, which just shows these things never go away. 270kcal. | ||
Tuesday Jan 24 | ||
| Spinning long (Self Program) 40:47 [3]15 km (2:43 / km) | |
| ahr:150 max:162 slept:6.5 weight:157.2lbs shoes: Gym Trainers | ||
| Better session than the ones last week - I was able to push harder for longer, and my HR remained lower for longer too. Feeling great afterwards too. I upped the tempo a bit for the last 5km. Still reluctant to push myself hard, though. 413kcal. | ||
| Note | |
| Start times for Sunday's race - disaster! - distracted is starting 2 minutes behind me. I'm going to be looking over my shoulder! The race is 12.9km with 340m of climb - yeouch. Lackofluke is 18 minutes in front. Should be a good race - plenty of other Oxford alumni on M21L as well. | ||
| C • Well you might be... 3 | ||