Training Archive: OllieIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-23:
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Sunday Mar 23 | ||
| Note | |
| slept:5.5 (injured) | ||
| My knee was hurting when I started today's race - it was made worse as I made a huge mistake to No. 1 (a 200m leg, that I took 10 minutes to find + 3 minute penalty for starting late) so I decided to bail - I did the last third of the course and then finished. I got very cold and wet in the snowy conditions.
Hopefully it will fix itself before the Eridge relays tomorrow but I may have to sit them out :-( | ||
Saturday Mar 22 | ||
| Orienteering (JK) 1:37:13 [3]***** 11.8 km (8:14 / km) +405m 7:02 / km | |
| ahr:173 max:184 spiked:25/29c slept:5.5 weight:145.8lbs shoes: Standard White O-Shoes | ||
| Second day of the JK, at Leith Hill.
I had a very early start, as I was helping SLOW later on. This meant I was pretty much on my own on the forest for the first half of the race - very pleasant. I also don't think I lost much time due to not having elephant tracks to follow, because the vegetation was generally low. This is the first time I've run on the "full" Leith Hill map - I only know the "famous" complex section around the summit, but I enjoyed the extra sections to the north-east and south-west, that made a full length M21L course possible. I held back all the way around, not pushing it 100%, as I have an even longer and hillier race tomorrow. But today, the middle section in Leith Hill itself was so nice, that by the time I finished the race, I really didn't feel like I had gone nearly 12km and climbed ~400m - rather it just felt like a Brown course. Some great planning by Matthias meant every leg had a different feel. A few were across the really technical terrain (but without controls in it) - it was difficult to know to run fast here, or navigate properly. In the end, I made just three significant mistakes - overshooting at No. 10 cost me at least three minutes, and there were bad navigation errors to No. 13 and No. 17. Weather: Very cold, quite windy. Started off dry, but gently snowed for a while, then there were several hail showers - none too hard to make it unpleasant. Not bad on the ground at all - only a bit muddy in places on some of the paths. | ||
Friday Mar 21 | ||
| Event: JK 2008 | ||
| Orienteering race (Sprint Race) 19:06 [5]***** 2.6 km (7:21 / km) +60m 6:35 / km | |
| ahr:186 max:196 spiked:16/18c slept:6.0 shoes: £20 Lightweight Running Shoes | ||
| JK Day 1 - Sprint race at the University of Surrey campus in Guildford. N.B. HR was only recorded for the latter 2/3rds of the race.
Made a couple of mistakes - a bad map-reading error on the way to 3 cost me 70 seconds (I was searching for a feature long after I past it, so overshot) and a wrong turn on the way to 14 cost me 15 seconds. There were also a few poor route choices, although none of them cost me more than 30s. Great area, a clear, legible map (at 1:4000, covered around half an A4 sheet, so not a big area) but with plenty of detail. Weather: Very windy and cold, but dry. | ||
Thursday Mar 20 | ||
| Note | |
| I've been working pretty much full time on digitising the City of London map over the last few weeks. Very time consuming indeed, but the map has come on in leaps and bounds.
I'm not sure this is a completely accurate representation of the level of work I've spent on it, but here's how the file sizes for the map file have increased (in MB) 19 Nov: 0.6 27 Nov: 1.4 2 Dec: 1.7 9 Dec: 2.4 8 Jan: 5.5 4 Feb: 6.6 9 Feb: 7.8 16 Feb: 9.9 23 Feb: 13.8 1 Mar: 16.1 9 Mar: 19.1 15 Mar: 25.7 Currently: 29.2 I won't really be able to work on the map at all between now and early June, so it's a good thing that the bulk of the initial cartography is out of the way. | ||
Wednesday Mar 19 | ||
| Field Surveying (City of London Map) 10:00 [0] | |
| Walked around the southern part of the Tower of London perimeter, and the Tower Hill plaza, doing a bit more of the area I had to abandon on Saturday. I'm surprised that I only took 10 minutes - although the area is pretty simple. Unfortunately it probably won't appear on the actual map, as getting the whole of the Tower of London and the Barbican Estate onto the same A3 landscape map at 1:5000 is not possible! | ||