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Wednesday Aug 9, 2017 #
Running - Trail race (Eccles Pike AS) 26:48 [5] 5.41 km (4:57 / km) +234m 4:04 / km
ahr:126 max:150 shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/results//race17/ep201...
Found this hard, set off as fast as I could but even before the hill started was being overtaken, then even moreso once the hill started. Got a few back on the way down including the first girl and one about 100m before the end, but 30s down on the top 3 Macc Harriers who came 2nd in the team comp, just behind Pennine.
Still more hillwork needed!
Found this hard, set off as fast as I could but even before the hill started was being overtaken, then even moreso once the hill started. Got a few back on the way down including the first girl and one about 100m before the end, but 30s down on the top 3 Macc Harriers who came 2nd in the team comp, just behind Pennine.
Still more hillwork needed!
Tuesday Aug 8, 2017 #
Running - Trail race (Bradwell AS) 29:47 [5] 6.14 km (4:51 / km) +231m 4:05 / km
ahr:138 max:160 shoes: X-Talon 212 (May 17)
http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/export_results.php?fo...
Raining lightly. Very fast start along flat roads at the start; was glad I put in a bit of effort here as I suspect it queued up a bit further down the field, but I was ok.kept running all the way up (think my ascending is improving.a bit.) Once at the top it undulated on a track and across fields for a bit, and I overtook two more people, then the next guy was within sight but miles away.
Unfortunately he was close enough to follow so I watched him rather than the tape, consequently ending up on the wrong side of a wall which I had to follow for a few hundred metres before there was a convenient gate to climb over.didn't cost much time though, and no places.
Fast downhill to the finish, slightly too steep and wet for me to go for it as much as I wanted.
Not an amazing race but good views from the top, and any race is better than no race!
Maybe came top 10ish? There are an incredible number of senior males up here; the race probably wasn't better attended than a TACH but the demographic is totally different.
Raining lightly. Very fast start along flat roads at the start; was glad I put in a bit of effort here as I suspect it queued up a bit further down the field, but I was ok.kept running all the way up (think my ascending is improving.a bit.) Once at the top it undulated on a track and across fields for a bit, and I overtook two more people, then the next guy was within sight but miles away.
Unfortunately he was close enough to follow so I watched him rather than the tape, consequently ending up on the wrong side of a wall which I had to follow for a few hundred metres before there was a convenient gate to climb over.didn't cost much time though, and no places.
Fast downhill to the finish, slightly too steep and wet for me to go for it as much as I wanted.
Not an amazing race but good views from the top, and any race is better than no race!
Maybe came top 10ish? There are an incredible number of senior males up here; the race probably wasn't better attended than a TACH but the demographic is totally different.
Monday Aug 7, 2017 #
Gym Strength (Pump #57) 1:00:00 [3]
Sunday Aug 6, 2017 #
Running - Trail (Hayfield loop) 1:28:43 [3] 13.67 km (6:29 / km) +561m 5:23 / km
ahr:132 max:158 shoes: X-Talon 212 (Sep16)
A few km shorter than expected since I lost track of some minor path (aka the pennine way) just before kinder low and kept contouring. Obviously decided subconsciously I hadn't had enough of running through heather.
Lovely day to be out. Had fancied a race but the closest I could find was 90 mins away and this was on my doorstep :)
Lovely day to be out. Had fancied a race but the closest I could find was 90 mins away and this was on my doorstep :)
Saturday Aug 5, 2017 #
Orienteering - Forest race (S6D Day 6 Glen Feardar) 1:48:32 [5] 12.73 km (8:32 / km) +554m 7:00 / km
ahr:136 max:160 shoes: X-Talon 212 (May 17)
A more encouraging end to the week. Started well; a few wobbles on 2 investigating some other controls, but they were very close to mine, and a ditch looks quite like a re-entrant! Didn't have enough of a plan to 3 and was saved by Joe Taunton catching the 2mins on me and then finding 7 which gave us a good AP. I was pretty much where I thought, though.
Then 4 I ignored Joe and Ed N and followed a stream (which was miles away from the stream near the control, not sure what I was doing) and they got away. But I did 5-6-7 pretty well... and then 8 - a bee* was buzzing around my head, as they do... but then it strung me and then it flew inside my top and couldn't get out! So after running around in circles trying to get away from it while it was stinging me, and failing to get rid of it by flapping the bottom around, I then had to actually remove my top and shake it to get the damn thing out. Anyway after that experience I was totally disorientated and not in the right frame of mind to find the control and was looking about 2 re-entrants too early. Stupid bee. Unfortunately this lost me the chance of running with Joe again and never saw him again.
Lucky on 9; used the woods above it to the S but that wasn't my initial plan (didn't really have an initial plan; should've used the three massive boulders below). My contouring route to 10 was ok but too nervous, should have trusted I didn't need to know exactly where it was because it would be obvious when I came out into the open. Bit lower down the slope than I thought. Caught by RP and two other guys here. Took a different line to them to 12; RP disappeared the distance but got there the same time as the others. Pretty much together for 13 and 14, then I got away down the hill a bit on 15 and led them into that; surprised to catch RP again here.
Unfortunately this was a bad thing as I then tried to stay ahead and went too fast and made a mess of 16, found 20 but didn't realise it was 20 unfortunately until the second time I visited it. Bracken pretty poorly mapped (but shouldn't have been using it, USE THE CONTOURS.
RP and I did 17 to the end pretty well, he was always ahead but I was taking different routes a lot of the time. I could keep up in easy terrain but couldn't handle his pace through the heathery stuff.
Shame about the bee, that wasn't really my fault, but should really have learnt both the going-too-fast and the use-the-contours lessons by now!
*probably a bee, anyway. We had been warned over the commentary that there were new hives in the area and there would be more bees than usual.
Then 4 I ignored Joe and Ed N and followed a stream (which was miles away from the stream near the control, not sure what I was doing) and they got away. But I did 5-6-7 pretty well... and then 8 - a bee* was buzzing around my head, as they do... but then it strung me and then it flew inside my top and couldn't get out! So after running around in circles trying to get away from it while it was stinging me, and failing to get rid of it by flapping the bottom around, I then had to actually remove my top and shake it to get the damn thing out. Anyway after that experience I was totally disorientated and not in the right frame of mind to find the control and was looking about 2 re-entrants too early. Stupid bee. Unfortunately this lost me the chance of running with Joe again and never saw him again.
Lucky on 9; used the woods above it to the S but that wasn't my initial plan (didn't really have an initial plan; should've used the three massive boulders below). My contouring route to 10 was ok but too nervous, should have trusted I didn't need to know exactly where it was because it would be obvious when I came out into the open. Bit lower down the slope than I thought. Caught by RP and two other guys here. Took a different line to them to 12; RP disappeared the distance but got there the same time as the others. Pretty much together for 13 and 14, then I got away down the hill a bit on 15 and led them into that; surprised to catch RP again here.
Unfortunately this was a bad thing as I then tried to stay ahead and went too fast and made a mess of 16, found 20 but didn't realise it was 20 unfortunately until the second time I visited it. Bracken pretty poorly mapped (but shouldn't have been using it, USE THE CONTOURS.
RP and I did 17 to the end pretty well, he was always ahead but I was taking different routes a lot of the time. I could keep up in easy terrain but couldn't handle his pace through the heathery stuff.
Shame about the bee, that wasn't really my fault, but should really have learnt both the going-too-fast and the use-the-contours lessons by now!
*probably a bee, anyway. We had been warned over the commentary that there were new hives in the area and there would be more bees than usual.
Friday Aug 4, 2017 #
Orienteering - Forest race (S6D Day 5 Glen Feardar) 52:52 [5] 6.67 km (7:56 / km) +275m 6:34 / km
ahr:144 max:170 shoes: X-Talon 225 (July 2017)
Another bad day. By far the easiest technically and much easier than yesterday physically too.
Stated ok, tentative but accurate, up to 9. 10 looked like it was on the edge of clitter but the actual description was 'hill', unfortunately I didn't read that and was going solely off the rocks and bracken, neither of which were distinct.as noted before, should've used contours here rather than other features.or at least as well! Then messed up 11 which was straightforward but think I was annoyed after 10, looking at the GPS I seem to have drifted off my bearing for no real reason and then had to relocate.
Next few controls I was being especially careful so were ok. But just time for one final mistake on 17 where I navigated to pretty much exactly the correct place but didn't see the white splodge of trees on the map near the control and so thought I was in the wrong place, went 90s in another direction, then stopped and thought about more and noticed the splodge and had to come 90s back again;sigh.
Probably 7mins of mistakes; pretty poor on this area. Hopefully a good day final day tomorrow, but quite glad the next three weeks will be a bit of a break from o tbh.
Stated ok, tentative but accurate, up to 9. 10 looked like it was on the edge of clitter but the actual description was 'hill', unfortunately I didn't read that and was going solely off the rocks and bracken, neither of which were distinct.as noted before, should've used contours here rather than other features.or at least as well! Then messed up 11 which was straightforward but think I was annoyed after 10, looking at the GPS I seem to have drifted off my bearing for no real reason and then had to relocate.
Next few controls I was being especially careful so were ok. But just time for one final mistake on 17 where I navigated to pretty much exactly the correct place but didn't see the white splodge of trees on the map near the control and so thought I was in the wrong place, went 90s in another direction, then stopped and thought about more and noticed the splodge and had to come 90s back again;sigh.
Probably 7mins of mistakes; pretty poor on this area. Hopefully a good day final day tomorrow, but quite glad the next three weeks will be a bit of a break from o tbh.
Thursday Aug 3, 2017 #
Orienteering - Forest race (S6D Day 4 Creag Choinnich) 1:46:49 [5] 10.13 km (10:33 / km) +529m 8:22 / km
ahr:126 max:161 shoes: X-Talon 212 (May 17)
It had all been going pretty well but today was disappointing.
The walk up to the start through thick heather was tough and foretold of things to come. So navigation to the first two controls was perfect but it was a walk the whole way. On 3 I ventured slightly off the edge of the map but managed to relocate (a skill in itself) and didn't lose too much time. Overshot 4 a bit and walked to 5 before the terrain got slightly more runnable and increased the pace contouring to 6, still pretty slow and careful. 7 was a vertical decent which I took gingerly.so slow so far but going ok.
Then things started to go wrong.didn't take enough time on route choice to 8.retrospectively I think this is because I'm used to being able to make complex choices while running, but the terrain today was such that that's very hard.I need to STOP and think about the hard choices even for 10s rather than trying to make one on the move.anyway I took a choice which was both further, over rougher terrain, with a worse AP.this not only took a long time but also destroyed me physiologically and I started to feel really really tired.
Couple of mins lost on 9 despite walking and just mentally not together at all, took ages to relocate.then another couple on 12 which was one of the easiest controls as most of the leg was on a downhill path, but I wasnt concentrating and had no idea how far along I'd gone.then probably 3 mins on 14 just not being careful and mistaking one hide for another despite a plethora of information which should've told me otherwise.
Last few controls ok. But the mental tiredness really got to me today; not something I often suffer from.early night I think.
The walk up to the start through thick heather was tough and foretold of things to come. So navigation to the first two controls was perfect but it was a walk the whole way. On 3 I ventured slightly off the edge of the map but managed to relocate (a skill in itself) and didn't lose too much time. Overshot 4 a bit and walked to 5 before the terrain got slightly more runnable and increased the pace contouring to 6, still pretty slow and careful. 7 was a vertical decent which I took gingerly.so slow so far but going ok.
Then things started to go wrong.didn't take enough time on route choice to 8.retrospectively I think this is because I'm used to being able to make complex choices while running, but the terrain today was such that that's very hard.I need to STOP and think about the hard choices even for 10s rather than trying to make one on the move.anyway I took a choice which was both further, over rougher terrain, with a worse AP.this not only took a long time but also destroyed me physiologically and I started to feel really really tired.
Couple of mins lost on 9 despite walking and just mentally not together at all, took ages to relocate.then another couple on 12 which was one of the easiest controls as most of the leg was on a downhill path, but I wasnt concentrating and had no idea how far along I'd gone.then probably 3 mins on 14 just not being careful and mistaking one hide for another despite a plethora of information which should've told me otherwise.
Last few controls ok. But the mental tiredness really got to me today; not something I often suffer from.early night I think.