Wednesday Aug 13 |
 | Cycling (To Event) 1:05:00 [2] 14.5 km (4:29 / km) | |
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| Cycle from City uni to Acton, via Bloomsbery and Shepherd's Bush. In rush-hour. |
| Cycling (OSM) 1:30:00 [1] 14.1 km (6:23 / km) | |
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| Getting street names and POIs for West Acton area. Then meetup at the Swan pub further south. |
Tuesday Aug 12 |
| Orienteering race (Trail Challenge) 45:07 [4] ** 10 km (4:31 / km) | |
| ahr:180 max:191 spiked:7/7c slept:7.0 shoes: Gym Trainers |
| SLOW 10K Trail Challenge in Richmond Park. Absolutely loads of people turned up - more than a hundred, including quite a few people with BPTT T-shirts. Weather was changeable, with a rain shower early on - quite pleasant actually - and quite cool for August.
Actual distance run was 10.4km. Ran well, and good navigation apart from a poor route from 4-5 which cost me 60 seconds. Nick B won in around 39 minutes, second place was 41 minutes.
The race was a mass start and a lot of people ran off hard at the start. Quite quickly I got away from the pack, as they took a different, straighter route to the first control, but I went fast to lose them.
I ran hard for the last few controls to stay ahead of someone else, and certainly could have run harder for the whole race - I didn't feel tired at all at the finish and had lots of energy left, although my knees hurt from the steep, tussocky decent right at the end. I think that the week's orienteering in France has improved my base level of fitness quite a bit. |
| Cycling long (To Event) 1:25:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Gym Trainers |
| From home via Clapham to Ham, into a head-wind for much of the way. |
| Cycling long (Back Home) 45:00 [3] | |
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| Fast cycle back from Putney, via Vauxhall, with a tail wind helping. |