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Training Log Archive: philm64

In the 7 days ending Feb 9, 2018:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Orienteering3 3:23:02 18.88(10:45) 30.39(6:41) 438
  Total3 3:23:02 18.88(10:45) 30.39(6:41) 438

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Friday Feb 9, 2018 #

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Indoor climbing at Bloc, bouldering.

10 days since i hurt my scarred core climbing. LH shoulder also still pretty painful. Lots of fairly easy problems, and only a twinge or two from stomach - tho the effect was horribly delayed last time.

I realise i need to keep my hand in, as am going on a climbing trip in April to Spain. Hmmm.

10 minute telephone interview with lloyds for a potential contract. The opportunity to make loads of £££ is quite tempting. I'd need to be more dedicated than my last half-hearted effort, tho. (2014!)

Why not go back to work? I'm bored of music, and my body is not letting me climb, and I'm not moving from Bristol any time soon, and all i need to do for running / O is a couple of runs a week. Yeah.

Thursday Feb 8, 2018 #

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(rest day)

Spent half the day & £750 in b&Q. The big Clifton renovation starts next week! :) Fitters booked.

Legs tired, but less so than after last sunday's NGOC brutality. I'm now a BOK Army lifer! :)

Wednesday Feb 7, 2018 #

12 PM

Orienteering race 1:05:34 [5] 10.93 km (6:00 / km) +147m 5:37 / km
shoes: Mud Claw 333

Army MLS south event - New forest, Hollands Wood, my first time with the "BOK Army", Brown 9.9km, 65:34, 4th. Richard Barrett 3rd, not far ahead.

Course easy, as area easy, but even so. Some of the terrain was energy sapping, ie wet, bracken, tussocks, ditches. Other parts were blissfully new forest runnable. Sometimes going straight was a joy; later on, I was getting fed up of it.

Felt a bit rough but decided to plough on & give 100% and see how it went. No real errors, faceplanted completely after leaving no 12 (as in face splatted into marsh)

Tiring later on, and started taking paths rather than going straight, eg. no 14. V tired en route to 15, lost a minute I think.

Lovely day out with other BOK seniors, and frankly I will try to do more of these, as they seem to be technically easy, & if I'm honest that's what I really enjoy doing. It means faster Army runners will beat me, but whatever.

http://www.baoc.info/sites/default/files/2018/02/0...

https://www.strava.com/activities/1396023365

Tuesday Feb 6, 2018 #

12 PM

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Liz's birthday - walk from Severn Beach to Aust, & back a slightly inland way.

Took her out in the VW camper van, which was great fun.

Legs really tired at the end - post-NGOC still - hard to recover age 53! Hoping for BOK Army new forest Brown course tomorrow tho. No one can accuse me of "knocking it on the head" anymore! ha ha. Ha.

The walk was advertised as 7 miles/3 hours but was well over 9 miles including a bit where the maps were wrong, and took 3:20 hrs plus rests.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1394438696

Monday Feb 5, 2018 #

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(rest day)

Essential.

Sunday Feb 4, 2018 #

12 PM

Orienteering race 1:28:53 [5] 12.78 km (6:57 / km) +182m 6:30 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators

NGOC Brown gallopen. Mallards pike.

hungover / curryover; having slept in a camper can in a car park in Chepstow

Really tired, & v v cold, but fine despite a bit slow, until no 17. Bingo. No idea. Nothing. GPS track says i went to no 19, but i don't think so ("Auto"-fit?).. Final insult was when Stephen Horlser, WIM, caught me 3 mins - he ran straight to the bingo control as i finally saw some else approach it. Crazy. sped up to try to hold him off - succeeded all the way to no 20, then no 21 - lost 3 mins; clueless - just shattered. Nothing left, mentally or physically. i went in at the right spot but thought i was too far north; Stephen says he saw me go within 10m of the control & not see it; bottom line was my tank was now empty.

So far behind Clive & Pete Ward, maybe this is the year I just knock it on the head.

oh well - enjoyed some of it, just felt such a marathon.

rest rest rest needed.
http://www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#109&cou...
1 PM

Orienteering race 48:35 [5] 6.68 km (7:16 / km) +109m 6:43 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators

NGOC Middle, Brown, 6km 24 controls. Mallards Pike,

Great fun, good planning, map great, no big errors, new shoes - VJ INtegrators (dobs - 1st pair ever!) which were superb & gave me soooo much more confidence than a pair of dying fading Innov8 "Mudclaws".

Up against the big boys (well, Adam & Ben & Megan are smaller than me, but you know what i mean), and annihilated by them, but glad / lucky to wreak revenge on the 2 who beat me in C Chase last w/e. :) had a sight of Adam for 1.5 controls, but little benefit. (he caught me 3 mins by no 7)

I don't even mind that Mark B beat me. Honest. Ok, i do . ;)

Ben & Megan ran times that are amazing, and I take my hat off to them. Great stuff!

routegadget . http://www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#107&cou...

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