Training Log Archive: purplepower

Stressful getting there (see separate post) but no problems with first leg for a change. Then had a brain snap - thought I was going to 3, crossed a major path which I thought was parallel path 350m to the west, so was looking for the wrong control in the wrong area! Went round in a circle and found myself back at the start, which I only recognised when I saw Tony on the way to his first control. Eventually arrived at my no. 2 with 31 minutes on the clock. Ok after that until another major error, but not as big, from 6 to 7. Well down in the field today - 57th.

On drive in realised that I didn't have my gaiters but no time to go back because also realised that my start time was 30 mins earlier than I thought. Delayed by heavy traffic through Nairn then the usual crawl into the arena. With half an hour to my start, abandoned the car and jogged to the assembly area - passed my start on the way but had to run 500 metres along a boggy path to the assembly area to buy some gaiters. Threw 20 pounds at them (keep the change), pulled on the gaiters and ran the boggy path back to the start, arriving 1 minute before my time was called (this is called "doing a Noel", but if only I could orienteer like him - see other post for today)

S6D - Day 4 Darnaway - C18 - Splits

Darnaway - nice Beech Forest and NO swamps or mud! Made some silly (as opposed to sensible) mistakes but had my best run so far. Good to watch the WOC relay afterwards.

S6D - Day 3 Darnaway - C18 - Splits

Physically tough - quite steep and lots of heathland with subtle contours.

S6D - Day 2 Strathfarrar - C18 - Splits

Not a great start to the 1st race of the 6 Days - went awry on 1st leg and took 30:42. Ok after that. Did almost 2 km more than the official distance of 3km. Warm-ish, sunny day which was fortunate as the terrain was very wet and muddy, with lots of marshes.

S6D - Day 1 Achagour - C18 - Splits

Rode from our apartment West of the city to the Amsterdam Forest 6km south. Plenty of tracks - for peds, cyclists, horses - within the 1000 hectares of lovely forest. Stopped at The Last Crumb for lunch, one more Lot 61 coffee, bit of shopping then home. Kind of sad to say goodbye to those weird bikes after 5 days of pedalling all over Amsterdam. But we'll be back one day. It's on to Inverness tomorrow - so next post will be D1 of the Scottish 6 Days.