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Saturday Apr 27, 2019 #
Note
well, this is embarrassing, isnt' it. Me on the Orange course ....
https://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/
Spent £38 in supermarket on healthy foods, to try to combat my worsening diabetes. I will need to cut right down on bread, potatoes, beer, and fruit. But I think the hardest will be cereal. the evidence is that after breakfast, my blood sugars spike terribly. This is soooo unhealthy. It's the cereal. Cereal is NOT a healthy start to the day. At all.
It's not going to be easy.
https://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/
Spent £38 in supermarket on healthy foods, to try to combat my worsening diabetes. I will need to cut right down on bread, potatoes, beer, and fruit. But I think the hardest will be cereal. the evidence is that after breakfast, my blood sugars spike terribly. This is soooo unhealthy. It's the cereal. Cereal is NOT a healthy start to the day. At all.
It's not going to be easy.
3 PM
S&C 1:00:00 [4]
Indoor roped climbing at UCR with Lynne.
The post-Font effect took shape & I was flying, onsighting a 6b+ and a very tricksie 6b, plus other 6b's including a hoofy overhang.
totally knackered by the end. slight sugar crash rectified by banana & cereal bar. balancing act is going to be tough.
Lower back/hip v sore past 2 days. Heh ho.
The post-Font effect took shape & I was flying, onsighting a 6b+ and a very tricksie 6b, plus other 6b's including a hoofy overhang.
totally knackered by the end. slight sugar crash rectified by banana & cereal bar. balancing act is going to be tough.
Lower back/hip v sore past 2 days. Heh ho.
Friday Apr 26, 2019 #
12 PM
Running (Intervals) 38:03 [4] 9.0 km (4:14 / km) +40m 4:08 / km
shoes: Innov8 MudClaw 300 2019
Little Stoke - 5km with Sian, pacing her to a 4:30 pace 22:30 (22:28) - felt fine, pace even.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2320102427
Coffee break.
Intervals (alone) - 4 x 1km, in park between km posts. 1 min jog / walk recovory approx. Disappointed to find how hard 3:50kms are. Need more of this? All were 3:50 - 3:53. Hmmmm.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2320210410
https://www.strava.com/activities/2320102427
Coffee break.
Intervals (alone) - 4 x 1km, in park between km posts. 1 min jog / walk recovory approx. Disappointed to find how hard 3:50kms are. Need more of this? All were 3:50 - 3:53. Hmmmm.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2320210410
Running 18:54 [2] 3.52 km (5:22 / km) +15m 5:15 / km
shoes: Brookes Ravenna 8
Thursday Apr 25, 2019 #
1 PM
S&C 1:00:00 [3]
Indoor climbing / bouldering at Bloc.
1st time climbing since Font, 10 days ago. inner elbow pain mostly gone, but skin on LH fingers (crucial guitar fingers....) ripped early on, not too badly but enough to cull my harder efforts. Even so, i bloody mindedly fought my way up a load of reds. Seemed easy after Font! Guided some newbie Spanish climbers to get up some oranges.
Roz Frugtniet was there. Always fun to be put in my place as a total, bumbly punter by someone elite - whatever the sport. She doesn't smile much, though (unlike my new Spanish mates). https://www.instagram.com/rfrugtniet/
Finished with some rehab in the gym area, including 3 mins' of planks. Go me.
1st time climbing since Font, 10 days ago. inner elbow pain mostly gone, but skin on LH fingers (crucial guitar fingers....) ripped early on, not too badly but enough to cull my harder efforts. Even so, i bloody mindedly fought my way up a load of reds. Seemed easy after Font! Guided some newbie Spanish climbers to get up some oranges.
Roz Frugtniet was there. Always fun to be put in my place as a total, bumbly punter by someone elite - whatever the sport. She doesn't smile much, though (unlike my new Spanish mates). https://www.instagram.com/rfrugtniet/
Finished with some rehab in the gym area, including 3 mins' of planks. Go me.
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019 #
7 PM
Orienteering 40:00 [3] 7.5 km (5:20 / km) +90m 5:02 / km
shoes: Brookes Ravenna 8
Launched the BOK urban series (I am co-ordinator for 2nd year in a row) this evening, UBOC put on an event at Uni halls. I arrived early to help set up & hang far controls (hint: car).
Good turnout, and most people made complimentary noises.
Contactless system SIAC used. Astonishingly, no one was DQed on download apart from those who had *actually* missed out controls, eg. Eddie!. no protests. Results were up before bedtime. Unheard of in the current climate. As usual, BOK leads at the cutting edge, where other, more expensive events falter.
I managed to find time to check the Orange course (7 mins /km in a coat with a gripple key around my neck) & later the Green which tired me out rather - still tired from JK. probably 40 mins in total really, then collecting controls & packing up. Didnt' bother with Garmin (left it at home); whatever.
well done UBOC.
https://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defau...
https://www.bok.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#174
Good turnout, and most people made complimentary noises.
Contactless system SIAC used. Astonishingly, no one was DQed on download apart from those who had *actually* missed out controls, eg. Eddie!. no protests. Results were up before bedtime. Unheard of in the current climate. As usual, BOK leads at the cutting edge, where other, more expensive events falter.
I managed to find time to check the Orange course (7 mins /km in a coat with a gripple key around my neck) & later the Green which tired me out rather - still tired from JK. probably 40 mins in total really, then collecting controls & packing up. Didnt' bother with Garmin (left it at home); whatever.
well done UBOC.
https://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defau...
https://www.bok.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#174
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
Surprisingly unscathed by the JK - unheard of.
Even felt quite energetic cycling to south Bristol & back. (<50 mins total)
Even felt quite energetic cycling to south Bristol & back. (<50 mins total)
Monday Apr 22, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 30:44 [5] 5.72 km (5:22 / km) +92m 4:58 / km
shoes: Innov8 MudClaw 300 2019
JK Relay, Minley, M165+ relay, leg 1 , 5.3km, 2nd back in class, 4th back overall, 30:44 (strava), 30:59 (EMIT pad after we'd stopped). BOK Dream team back in action - 1st place. Yay.
Foot compeded & taped; comfy new Mudclaws on. Painkillers swallowed.
Mass start with elite women. M55s include Tim Tett (rematch?) & leg 1 specialist Nigel Bunn (after a disappointing 2 ind. races for him). Got boxed miles back after start (messing around "opening" map), and had to run wide in forest to try to catch up. I could see Nigel B & Cecilie way up front, with Tim T not far behind, but when we hit the forest road, it started making sense as others peeled off to the right (in error!!), & Cecilie went full pelt to no 1, with 2-3 elite Ws in her wake & me in oxygen debt 10 seconds further down.
Got my act together, & by no 2 was going well - but lost the leaders near 3 & had a lucky escape - 10s lost.
Thence on was fighting to stay within spitting distance of Nigel, and Cecilie reappeared having had a slightly longer gaffle. Meanwhile, Tessa Strain was exerting her dominance on the race, and I was just off the pace at the spectator control, but pulled back with a decent climb/line to no 15. Then on was eyeballs out and as Tessa & Cecilie kicked from no 17, I was already dropped and could not make any impression on Nigel, either. Still. No sign of SYO - very weird.
Happily, Mark S passed Jules B, and Clive pulled another 2mins away from Roger so TVOC got a deserved silver; pre-race joint favourites SYO a distant 8th. Tim clearly gave 100% yesterday & had nothing left. Bewildering. Nick L ran a decent middle leg!!!
No prizes. I suspect EMIT was to blame; yet our result was clear cut (& the elite women's wasn't, after 2 DQ's - yet they got *their* podiums....hmm.....). This JK will be remembered for EMIT woes, which is a shame as it was a really good JK. The commentary was also way off the standard expected. When Clive finished, they asked him "Did you win?" He replied "that's what you're supposed to know!". Dear me.
Note: I won the JK short open relay with SHUOC in 1984 (age 19!); M21L1 in 1991, and my Mum won the JK W43 ("D43") in 1979, 40 years ago, in gardening shoes, at her first attempt. I beat Clive too, that year! ;-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2310295123
https://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#80&route...
Foot compeded & taped; comfy new Mudclaws on. Painkillers swallowed.
Mass start with elite women. M55s include Tim Tett (rematch?) & leg 1 specialist Nigel Bunn (after a disappointing 2 ind. races for him). Got boxed miles back after start (messing around "opening" map), and had to run wide in forest to try to catch up. I could see Nigel B & Cecilie way up front, with Tim T not far behind, but when we hit the forest road, it started making sense as others peeled off to the right (in error!!), & Cecilie went full pelt to no 1, with 2-3 elite Ws in her wake & me in oxygen debt 10 seconds further down.
Got my act together, & by no 2 was going well - but lost the leaders near 3 & had a lucky escape - 10s lost.
Thence on was fighting to stay within spitting distance of Nigel, and Cecilie reappeared having had a slightly longer gaffle. Meanwhile, Tessa Strain was exerting her dominance on the race, and I was just off the pace at the spectator control, but pulled back with a decent climb/line to no 15. Then on was eyeballs out and as Tessa & Cecilie kicked from no 17, I was already dropped and could not make any impression on Nigel, either. Still. No sign of SYO - very weird.
Happily, Mark S passed Jules B, and Clive pulled another 2mins away from Roger so TVOC got a deserved silver; pre-race joint favourites SYO a distant 8th. Tim clearly gave 100% yesterday & had nothing left. Bewildering. Nick L ran a decent middle leg!!!
No prizes. I suspect EMIT was to blame; yet our result was clear cut (& the elite women's wasn't, after 2 DQ's - yet they got *their* podiums....hmm.....). This JK will be remembered for EMIT woes, which is a shame as it was a really good JK. The commentary was also way off the standard expected. When Clive finished, they asked him "Did you win?" He replied "that's what you're supposed to know!". Dear me.
Note: I won the JK short open relay with SHUOC in 1984 (age 19!); M21L1 in 1991, and my Mum won the JK W43 ("D43") in 1979, 40 years ago, in gardening shoes, at her first attempt. I beat Clive too, that year! ;-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2310295123
https://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#80&route...
Sunday Apr 21, 2019 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:05:40 [5] 11.62 km (5:39 / km) +252m 5:06 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators
JK long, Cold Ash, v hot day, 9.7km. 65:40, 4th; 4th overall in JK M55L
Tim Tett started 4 mins after me (after Charlie yesterday, this felt cruel). Mistake - wore dobs, despite Jim B saying dont bother. He was right. Huge blister slowly formed under LH ball of foot all the way. V hard ground.
Plugged away gamely until heat / thirst starting kicking in along with blister pain by no 15. Took a drink then lost head a little & 90 seconds in the wrong bit of green at no 18. By no 19, Tim was on me, and by 21 was past - just.
After road crossing I again nearly blew it as Tim nipped away - had to go back to punch no 24, then had a word with my (dehydrated, parched, sore) self, and just ran as hard as i could to "catch" Tim - didnt' manage it (quite), and he's 59 & was tiring too - we finished about 3 seconds apart.
Clive had done enough to pass me, & Chas was the fastest again today, so my podium yesterday was wiped out & I finished 4th. The worst possible place. But i'd expected top 8, so have to be pleased.
https://race-results.info/live/1662/?page=coursepa...
https://www.strava.com/activities/2308526449
Tim Tett started 4 mins after me (after Charlie yesterday, this felt cruel). Mistake - wore dobs, despite Jim B saying dont bother. He was right. Huge blister slowly formed under LH ball of foot all the way. V hard ground.
Plugged away gamely until heat / thirst starting kicking in along with blister pain by no 15. Took a drink then lost head a little & 90 seconds in the wrong bit of green at no 18. By no 19, Tim was on me, and by 21 was past - just.
After road crossing I again nearly blew it as Tim nipped away - had to go back to punch no 24, then had a word with my (dehydrated, parched, sore) self, and just ran as hard as i could to "catch" Tim - didnt' manage it (quite), and he's 59 & was tiring too - we finished about 3 seconds apart.
Clive had done enough to pass me, & Chas was the fastest again today, so my podium yesterday was wiped out & I finished 4th. The worst possible place. But i'd expected top 8, so have to be pleased.
https://race-results.info/live/1662/?page=coursepa...
https://www.strava.com/activities/2308526449