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Saturday Sep 28, 2019 #
2 PM
Orienteering race 48:07 [5] 7.07 km (6:48 / km) +194m 5:59 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators
Caddihoe chase day 1, burrator, blue, 5.8km/200m
At the start no one told me there was a taped route to a start flag that wasn’t mine. Additionally, due to being chilled & chatty at the start, I thought we were pointing due south. Compass said due north. Didn’t check in boxes. Very confused.
Followed tapes to the “start” flag, noting it had no SI unit on it. Navigated from start on my map, using the “extra” “start” flag (which said “Start” on it),(which was one field box over), straight into bracken filled field where I spent 5 minutes. Just ridiculous. One old lady jogged past & was laughing at me.
Apart from overshooting no 4 (1 min)- due to raging & being very fit- clean (really good infact, at times!!!); & just took the “win”.
Sigh. Another race, another seemingly inexplicable fuck up. I’m going to forget this one.
https://www.devonorienteering.co.uk/results-archiv...
https://strava.app.link/IBdbb7t9l0
At the start no one told me there was a taped route to a start flag that wasn’t mine. Additionally, due to being chilled & chatty at the start, I thought we were pointing due south. Compass said due north. Didn’t check in boxes. Very confused.
Followed tapes to the “start” flag, noting it had no SI unit on it. Navigated from start on my map, using the “extra” “start” flag (which said “Start” on it),(which was one field box over), straight into bracken filled field where I spent 5 minutes. Just ridiculous. One old lady jogged past & was laughing at me.
Apart from overshooting no 4 (1 min)- due to raging & being very fit- clean (really good infact, at times!!!); & just took the “win”.
Sigh. Another race, another seemingly inexplicable fuck up. I’m going to forget this one.
https://www.devonorienteering.co.uk/results-archiv...
https://strava.app.link/IBdbb7t9l0
Friday Sep 27, 2019 #
5 PM
Climbing (Sport) 45:00 [3]
Indoor climbing Exeter wall, with rob n Sara . Really good; fun; used & had to trust auto belays! Managed several 6b but shut down by 2 6b+
More worryingly, a neighbour says the police were calling for me yesterday. I was in London but my car was there. I emailed the management agent to complain about the noise above my flat, again, on behalf of my lodger, Rachel, & me. They would have forwarded it to her landlord (who will not engage with me now); he may have told her/forwarded it to her. She will have rung the police immediately & reopened her harassment case against me.
But this time I have a witness/ally: Rachel. And Rachel is “staggered” at this development.
I’ve got to leave linden fucking house. What a shit load of “luck” I’ve had there. The tenant (aka bitch) upstairs wakes me EVERY SINGLE NIGHT between 2 & 4am. I only complain when she/they are *really* loud- as they were Monday night/early hours Tuesday. Rachel was annoyed at breakfast on Tuesday & she pays me good rent & I owe it to her, if no one else, to ensure she has a peaceful night.
Police take all complaints by women against men seriously. We’re in the #believewomen #metoo era. But I am no harasser; what if the woman is a lying, entitled snowflake? I’m pretty glad right now Rachel is not Roger (the lodger!!!!! Haha)
More worryingly, a neighbour says the police were calling for me yesterday. I was in London but my car was there. I emailed the management agent to complain about the noise above my flat, again, on behalf of my lodger, Rachel, & me. They would have forwarded it to her landlord (who will not engage with me now); he may have told her/forwarded it to her. She will have rung the police immediately & reopened her harassment case against me.
But this time I have a witness/ally: Rachel. And Rachel is “staggered” at this development.
I’ve got to leave linden fucking house. What a shit load of “luck” I’ve had there. The tenant (aka bitch) upstairs wakes me EVERY SINGLE NIGHT between 2 & 4am. I only complain when she/they are *really* loud- as they were Monday night/early hours Tuesday. Rachel was annoyed at breakfast on Tuesday & she pays me good rent & I owe it to her, if no one else, to ensure she has a peaceful night.
Police take all complaints by women against men seriously. We’re in the #believewomen #metoo era. But I am no harasser; what if the woman is a lying, entitled snowflake? I’m pretty glad right now Rachel is not Roger (the lodger!!!!! Haha)
Thursday Sep 26, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
London all day for charity board meeting.
RH soleus "stiff" from yesterday's over exuberant run, but not in a good way. Hmmm.
Tim T would say "its' fine, it's only stiff, you can race on it"
Liz would say: (nb. she has had proper sports massage training) "There are mirco-tears in the muscle & "stiff" through to a grade 1 tear is all on a spectrum of muscle damage".
Best be careful. No road races. Hang on.... Liverpool urban? :-\
RH soleus "stiff" from yesterday's over exuberant run, but not in a good way. Hmmm.
Tim T would say "its' fine, it's only stiff, you can race on it"
Liz would say: (nb. she has had proper sports massage training) "There are mirco-tears in the muscle & "stiff" through to a grade 1 tear is all on a spectrum of muscle damage".
Best be careful. No road races. Hang on.... Liverpool urban? :-\
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019 #
10 AM
Climbing (Bouldering) 1:00:00 [4]
Bloc climbing bouldering - hard work. Circuits i wasn't quite as on it as last 2 weeks. Some problems, tho, I worked & did fine. The Font 6a one I've been doing each week i nailed without my feet cutting off (1st time) - promising for core strength.
Knackered.
Knackered.
4 PM
Running 45:49 [4] 10.01 km (4:35 / km) +130m 4:18 / km
shoes: Brooks Ravenna 10
Tempo pace Stoke park run (mainly grass): not planned, just felt good as soon as i set off, all fine til 6km when I suddenly had to dive behind a bush. Shit!
RH soleus (as in Binning wood?) was niggling from there on, and at 8km, well inside 38 mins, my LH calf decided to start acting up too. So rather hobbled on the final mile. Road final 1km was painful tho i did it in 4:11 (slight downhill) so clearly still travelling.
Probably too much, post-climbing, but couldn't resist it.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2739235241
RH soleus (as in Binning wood?) was niggling from there on, and at 8km, well inside 38 mins, my LH calf decided to start acting up too. So rather hobbled on the final mile. Road final 1km was painful tho i did it in 4:11 (slight downhill) so clearly still travelling.
Probably too much, post-climbing, but couldn't resist it.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2739235241
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019 #
Note
Again kept awake , as was my lodger, Rachel - last night from 11:30pm until who knows? earplugs in. Now deaf in right ear - this is related (to overuse of earplugs).
Routegadget now up for saturday - my relay disaster. How can this happen? I suspect the control was only "easy" if you used the intended attack point & not come over the fence as we did. No one else lost time here. Maybe the map wasn't 100% accurate from the south/south east rather than south west. But, like Ian Maxwell, I missed it twice by less than 5m, says the track. Awful.
https://www.elo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#80&rout...
Routegadget now up for saturday - my relay disaster. How can this happen? I suspect the control was only "easy" if you used the intended attack point & not come over the fence as we did. No one else lost time here. Maybe the map wasn't 100% accurate from the south/south east rather than south west. But, like Ian Maxwell, I missed it twice by less than 5m, says the track. Awful.
https://www.elo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#80&rout...
Note
(rest day)
Nope. Refusal.
Learning 30 songs for my band. Rehearsal this evening.....
Learning 30 songs for my band. Rehearsal this evening.....
Monday Sep 23, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
(My late flight was delayed) Got in 12:30am, light out 1am, fucking bastards upstairs got in ~3:30am & walked around waking me til 4am.
RH soleus a little sore - this troubled me on saturday & I was worried yesterday. I'll ease off a bit this week. Tired.
RH soleus a little sore - this troubled me on saturday & I was worried yesterday. I'll ease off a bit this week. Tired.
Sunday Sep 22, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 48:54 [5] 6.86 km (7:08 / km) +266m 5:58 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators
VHI individual, Pentlands, 5.7km/28m, Blue. 48:54, 1st place in VHI
Basically I *had* to run well today, it was binary.
A little worried as Donald Petrie started 2 mins after me in a very open area. An open, rather tough area. Clive started on Short Brown the same time as me, he went off like a rocket, I was barely able to stay with it, and I was flat out. Have I lost it?
Good start in control pick area, small slip at no 5 when i saw the short blue control, 20 secs? then the LONG LEG. I planned this sensibly, IMO, but had a massive boost when I gained a view of the huge valley en route - for there were my 12, 8 & 6 minute men all toiling up the hill opposite. And no way were they that far ahead. Descended as hard as I could & jogged up the hill, John Embrey not able to run on that gradient by his own admission, Ian Maxwell was quite high, Mark S went left. I took a good line across the slope, & by the time i was above the control, they were at it / leaving it etc so I was gifted the flag. Mark overshot no 7 and so I pulled John back on to it, then it was a question of running down Ian - which took another 6 minutes!!!! Another piece of good luck was getting into the Dave Godfree / Marcus Pinker train - leading me to the circle on no 9 but I did need to stop & find it as they had another control further on.
No 10 was potentially a cock-uppable leg and I identified a gate as AP. (Nigel lost time here). Even jogging / walking in from there, I missed by 20secs, and it was worrying for a while; Ian, Dave & Marcus were also in there with me - I found it 1st. Then eyeballs out with the "youngsters" to the end.
Won by 6 minutes (M55 class) ; Kim nearly 4 mins down - certainly my best run for a while, and justifying my "selection". England won! Long afternoon chilling at SOL event and then late flight back from Edinburgh via Rob Lee's. Very satisfying weekend - but it could have been disastrous had i messed up today. But I delivered. nb. someone called Mark Nixon M35 was 7 minutes faster - bugger. Not a win then! ;-)
England again emerged victorious, from Scotland, (153 to 136), and everyone went home happy. And - NO ONE DQed!!!! :-) (not even Clive)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2730600675
Result: https://www.esoc.org.uk/results-files/2019/0922-pe...
RG: https://www.esoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#79&cou...
Basically I *had* to run well today, it was binary.
A little worried as Donald Petrie started 2 mins after me in a very open area. An open, rather tough area. Clive started on Short Brown the same time as me, he went off like a rocket, I was barely able to stay with it, and I was flat out. Have I lost it?
Good start in control pick area, small slip at no 5 when i saw the short blue control, 20 secs? then the LONG LEG. I planned this sensibly, IMO, but had a massive boost when I gained a view of the huge valley en route - for there were my 12, 8 & 6 minute men all toiling up the hill opposite. And no way were they that far ahead. Descended as hard as I could & jogged up the hill, John Embrey not able to run on that gradient by his own admission, Ian Maxwell was quite high, Mark S went left. I took a good line across the slope, & by the time i was above the control, they were at it / leaving it etc so I was gifted the flag. Mark overshot no 7 and so I pulled John back on to it, then it was a question of running down Ian - which took another 6 minutes!!!! Another piece of good luck was getting into the Dave Godfree / Marcus Pinker train - leading me to the circle on no 9 but I did need to stop & find it as they had another control further on.
No 10 was potentially a cock-uppable leg and I identified a gate as AP. (Nigel lost time here). Even jogging / walking in from there, I missed by 20secs, and it was worrying for a while; Ian, Dave & Marcus were also in there with me - I found it 1st. Then eyeballs out with the "youngsters" to the end.
Won by 6 minutes (M55 class) ; Kim nearly 4 mins down - certainly my best run for a while, and justifying my "selection". England won! Long afternoon chilling at SOL event and then late flight back from Edinburgh via Rob Lee's. Very satisfying weekend - but it could have been disastrous had i messed up today. But I delivered. nb. someone called Mark Nixon M35 was 7 minutes faster - bugger. Not a win then! ;-)
England again emerged victorious, from Scotland, (153 to 136), and everyone went home happy. And - NO ONE DQed!!!! :-) (not even Clive)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2730600675
Result: https://www.esoc.org.uk/results-files/2019/0922-pe...
RG: https://www.esoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#79&cou...