Training Archive: OllieIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-27:
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Sunday Jan 27 | ||
| Orienteering (District Event) 1:12:08 [3]*** 7 km (10:18 / km) +450m 7:48 / km | |
| ahr:175 max:190 spiked:23/29c slept:8.0 (injured) shoes: Standard White O-Shoes | ||
| Ran Brown at EUOC District Event at Holyrood Park in central Edinburgh. Holyrood Park is not your normal inner city park, as the 450m climb on this course shows. The main summit, Arthur's Seat, is 250m high, and the course included a leg with this summit in between two controls.
The weather was clear and sunny, but there was a very strong westerly wind, which made half the controls tough going. In fact, in places, it was pretty much impossible to run into the wind. There were also a number of tough uphill legs - some just a straight 100m climb, others involving tricky navigation around steeply banked gorse and lines of cliffs that pervade the park. This was undoubtably one of the most scenic areas I have ever run in - the views over Edinburgh were stunning, and the course took us to most of the big viewpoints. I didn't make any significant mistakes, just found it slow going in places, and very tough in the wind. Mistakes: To 1: Poor route choice (1m) To 4: Poor route choice - through gorse! (30s) To 7: Poor route choice - stuck in gorse! (30s) To 17: Overshot (45s) To 25: Poor navigation (45s) My GPS says I ran 9km, my splits are: 8:15, 7:21, 9:51, 8:43, 6:17, 7:32, 10:17, 6:52, (7:32) Finished 17th of 49 starters, 42 of whom finished. Winning was 54:37, third place was 62:16. | ||
Saturday Jan 26 | ||
| Event: Edinburgh Big Weekend | ||
| Cycling (To Station) 21:33 [2]6.95 km (3:06 / km) | |
| Cycling in to King's Cross to catch early an morning train to Edinburgh. | ||
| Orienteering (Sprint Race) 42:48 [5]*** 6.3 km (6:48 / km) | |
| ahr:185 max:197 spiked:22/30c slept:4.5 shoes: £20 Lightweight Running Shoes | ||
| EUOC Edinburgh Street Race, in the Old Town. Actual distance run (according to GPS) was 8.4km. I had a storming run - just five minutes down on Nick B. He started seven minutes down, and I saw him a few controls back, around half way round, so stepped up my pace, which was already quite good. Home advantage helped too - I am quite familiar with the general layout of the area, having grown up in and around the city.
The run itself was pretty fault free, with just a couple of slow route choices - an unnecessary climb up to the Castle Esplanade on leaving No. 9, for example - and a bit of darting in and out of the wrong closes. Highlights of the event were the numerous legs on the Royal Mile, peppered with narrow closes to spot and run down, and the weird grassy section outside the Scottish Parliament near the end - rather unconventional. However I noticed after the finish that I had crossed a street that was marked as out of bounds. The red route lines had been bent around such streets for previous legs, but not for this one, and I just didn't notice the thin red hashing - my map was folded across the line too, which didn't help. Looking at the results, 69 people completed the race successfully and 30 were disqualified for this mistake, including myself, APers JonX and Becks. As Ian C would say, a bit of a pharce. Taking into account times for everyone, including the disqualified people, I would have finished around 9th. Adding 75 seconds to account for the longer route I would have taken if I hadn't made the mistake, I would have finished 12th. Two people who DSQd got a better time than me. If there's one positive from this, it is that I will be very careful at introducing and displaying out of bounds areas onto the London map that aren't construction sites or other large, walled areas. HR was a bit too high on this race - I generally run as fast as I can, and I'm not sure if it's over a "safe" limit or whether it's just indicating that I'm a little out of fitness. Mistakes: To 2: Ran down wrong close (20s) To 5: Distracted by youths who were actually trying to help (15s) To 7: Had trouble finding the actual control (20s) To 10: Poor route choice - wasted climb (20s) To 16: Hesitation - red circle obscured a wall (10s) To 22: Erm, yeah. Didn't see the OOB hashings (-75s) To 24: Poor route choice - went the long way around (15s) To 26: Ran down wrong close (20s) Splits: 5:15, 5:28, 5:32, 4:41, 4:32, 5:13, 4:45, 5:28, (4:44) | ||
| C • OOB 4 | ||
| Jogging (Warm Down) 5:00 [1]1 km (5:00 / km) | |
| Warm down jog with Nick B around the field by the assembly. It was starting to rain so it was fairly short. | ||
Friday Jan 25 | ||
| Cycle Commuting (In to Uni) 21:16 [3]6.3 km (3:23 / km) | |
| Nightmare commute - went the direct way to Victoria Park and along the Regent's Canal, but there was a strong headwind for almost all of the way. Tough going. | ||
| Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 13:51 [3]5.24 km (2:39 / km) | |
| Thanks to tailwind, and a new, shorter route, this is my record time back home from uni. Went along Percival Street, continued roughly in a straight line until I hit City Road just before the Old Street roundabout. Then along Great Eastern Road, Bethnal Green Road and home. Not a nice route during rush hour but fine after it. The tailwind undoubtably helped too. I can probably save a couple more hundred metres with further route optimisations. The straight-line distance is 4.27km. | ||
Thursday Jan 24 | ||
| Cycle Commuting (In to Uni) 16:54 [3]5.5 km (3:04 / km) | |
| Via Great Eastern Street, as per the satnav on my phone. Disappointingly, it proved not to be a quicker way (I was going fast) although it was a little shorter. | ||
| Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 18:32 [2]6.14 km (3:01 / km) | |
| Via Great Eastern Street but stopped at Spitalfields Market. | ||
Wednesday Jan 23 | ||
| Cycling (To/from Event) 44:59 [3]15.53 km (2:54 / km) | |
| To/from CASS. Hurrying on the way there as a bit late. Out via Great Eastern Street, which is a little quicker but more clogged up with traffic. Back the same way, but was quieter. | ||