Training Log Archive: Lulu

Vs All Blacks. GD for first half then off:(( We were drawing at the end of the first half and then we lost 34-21 by the end...

British Relays. Junior AdHoc with Yasmin and Jake Field. N/C because Jake was too old... Got to do a lovely 2.6km orange course on first leg woo! Bombed off down the hill for the first half of the course. Getting ahead of the younger boys because they kept stopping at the controls. They pulled away from me at the uphill for the last few controls though.. Realisation I need to get fitter when I cant keep up with M14s on an orange course:/ good warm down for yesterday I guess ;)

Mostly stretching for my calves... Didn't cause me too much bother yesterday after I'd done the warm up course and then done plenty of stretching!

Event: British Orienteering Championships 2015
 

Warm up map #1 - #4.

Various bits of jogging and drills to fill some time as I was at the start pretty early.

British Champs, Brierley and New Beechenhurst. W18E, 7.7km.
Good to #1 and #2. #3 I wasn't sure if my route choice was best.. Went up the ride over the spur and then contoured around the valley. Clearly contoured much higher than I thought as I was looking a good 100m before the control. Soon noticed the shape of the contours and found it. Lost ~1min. #4 was in a complicated section and I was a bit scrappy but found it eventually. Maybe lost another 1min. Rest up the crossing point were fine (just a very slow slog up the hill to #6:///). Took #10 steady as it was quite vague, but found it well. I was too far right for #12 but fortunately saw someone go into it;) I was pretty shattered at this point and it hit me how seriously unfit I am:/ All the way to the finish my navigation was fine, but I was just so slow! Walked a lot of it.

Ended up 20 minutes behind HO in 8th. Position doesn't sound too bad but then some people are at WSOC who would have beaten me too. Bit depressed about it all tbh.

Being a tourist around Bristol... Yay......

Travelling to Bristol.

Fitness based drills and core exercises for first hour! Hard work. And my partner was injured so I did some of the drills double the time-.- Half court for half an hour then full court for last hour. Pretty shattered...

SYO informal score event. Finding clues as controls. All around streets/paths so I'm not classifying it as orienteering.... Absolutely beautiful evening - so warm! Calves were crap.