Training Log Archive: Poogy

SinS day 2, actual distance 5k 385m
For some reason I had it in my head this was a middle distance so I thought I would be out for 30mins it soon became apparent I was going to be out for ages.
The first 5 controls were fine, however we went in to this section of what I thought was the worst orienteering area I have ever been to which was basically a poorly mapped steep hill with loads of cut down trees. I lost about 7mins on this section of 3 controls alone. At the time I was really pissed of with them choosing this area to run on.
I only then started to just try and enjoy the course from control 12 and got motivation from running along this awesome cycle path. Then on the way to 16 I stopped at the drink stop and walked for about 100m and finished the bottle (which I never normally do) and knew there was no chance of a win. The rest of the controls were fine.
Surprisingly I was 2nd 3mins behind Micheal. At control 9 (3rd of the way in to the course) he was 9mins ahead so I must have done well to gain back that time :)

Day 2 - Hopton Course 4 - Splits

Event: HOC/WRE Springtime in Shropshire
 

SinS day 1, actual length 6.2, 3rd
I really enjoyed running in this area apart from a couple of sections of the course. Biggest mistakes were due to lazy navigation, on 5 for example I ran 150m down a track past the control and had to go back. The most annoying control was 15 were it looked so easy I just ran and assumed I would see it, I lost 2mins on that 1min leg.
I'm not to pleased with this run as although I probably should have beaten Micheal, Nathan was consistently beating me on every split.

Day 1 - Croft Course 4 - Splits

East Devon vs Exeter
the head wind and rain meant it wouldn't be a pb producing run so just tried to win
came first a few seconds in front of the guy who beat me last time but we have decided to have a "proper" race at the Tipton 10k :)

Good warm up and cool down, felt sick afterwards so decided not to go to hashing

Been selected for junior squad training Deeside before the Scottish 6 days which is gooood, now I just need to worry about the WJHI's selection which would be amazing to get in to :)

Felt tried from the previous training this week + revision so wanted to save energy for tomorrows 3k. I think I can get sub 9:40 if I do well :)

Would have done Hill reps but I want to do well on the 3k TT on thursday so just went easy. Down the river to tipton and back :)

Tried to beat the time I did two weeks ago: 37.14
I felt really strong while running and ran two sub 4 min/km however due to some frisky cows I was slowed down by a couple in mins halfway through.