Urban Orienteering race (Score) 53:47** 9.69 km (5:33 / km) +28m5:28 / km ahr:162 max:175 spiked:24/24c shoes: Haglofs Gram XC 2016
Salisbury Night race, Wessex Night League. 1 hour score, 2nd.
Some suboptimal planning but not messed up the strategy as much as I usually do. Hesitant in a few places and messed about in the control circle a few times wasting time. Felt good running even though 3rd day in a row racing. Can speed up more from now on.
Running warm up/down 5:14 0.8 km (6:33 / km) +11m6:07 / km ahr:139 max:159 shoes: VJ iRock 2016
Orienteering race 1:28:58*** 12.89 km (6:54 / km) +225m6:21 / km ahr:167 max:178 spiked:24/24c shoes: VJ iRock 2016
November Classic, course 2 (M40L)
Great day out, but terrain as usual New Forest with lots of bogs, so got very wet very fast. Which I hate. But at least I am getting used to it. Decent course, made about 6 mins worth of mistakes adding all together, so considering I wasn't giving 100% not a bad result (about 17 min behind winner). Felt quite OK actually especially considering the consequent days trainings. Probably be worth upping the pace after I am back from vacation in December. Lost most time (apart from where I made mistakes) on legs with uphill so as expected need to strengthen legs & do hill training more.
Navigation largely OK, recovered OK from the mistakes as well: #3 - imprecise compass bearing, ended up right of the control with not much to go on, unfortunately an M18 starting a minute ahead did the same so I wasn't adjusting immediately. Did a bit of a roundtrip but at least did not hesitate much, all together about 2 mins #4 - just was doing a few rounds in the green, instead of going around it which would have been faster, about 30s #10 - hesitant attacking the control and pulled left, bounced back from the road, about 30s #12 - misjudged the distances on the map (been a while since I ran on 1:15000), saw the vegetation that hid the control from afar, but thought it is too far - also saw an unmapped track before it - so stopped early and tried to locate it nearer. In the end convinced myself to the reality and lo and behold... 1 min #14 - Not sure the map was 100% here, attacked from the veg boundary but ended up rounding another veg strip further N of the one which was mapped with the control. As there was no control there, I went back and found the control, but either it was more to the S of where it should have been, or there was another unmapped veg N of it. 1:30 #21 - bad choice of going more or less straight out of control, probably the worst option to get out on the track. 30s
Startled a pack of deer in between 5 and 6, there was about 5 of them jumping away around 2 m from me!
Running warm up/down 1:13 0.19 km (6:24 / km) ahr:136 max:151 shoes: Adidas Supernova Glide
Urban Orienteering race 42:41*** 7.9 km (5:24 / km) +26m5:19 / km ahr:168 max:178 spiked:31/31c shoes: Adidas Supernova Glide
Southampton City Race, Mens Vets.
As this whole stretch is part of training and not target races, I thought I'll try out the new gimbal with the GoPro on my head. Ah well, what a mistake. Too heavy, kept bouncing all over so I ended up adjusting it all the time, until it messed up my forehead so much it hurt, so I took it off an carried it from about 2/3rd of the way. What's worse, as I was 1 min late to the start I did not have time to verify the GoPro settings, so instead of taking a picture every second, it was on single shot - which means it had 1 picture at the start and then switched off. So much ado for mothing.
OK so speed was terrible, but I felt quite OK to be honest. Made a few route choice mistakes as I was distracted by the headcam (I'll blame it on it anyway) and got to the wrong side of the wall once as I wasn't paying attention to the control description sufficiently. Lovely day out, though and a decent course.
Running warm up/down 13:13 1.8 km (7:20 / km) +22m6:55 / km ahr:136 max:153 shoes: Adidas Supernova Glide
Running intervals 38:05 7.15 km (5:20 / km) +3m5:19 / km ahr:156 max:179 shoes: Haglofs Gram XC 2016
Supposed to be 4min/km mile reps, but too many dogs in the park attempting to eat me so I stopped more than I would have otherwise. Not in the best of shape for this anyway so would not have lasted the full session anyway.
Running intervals 40:49 7.97 km (5:07 / km) +102m4:49 / km ahr:163 max:184 shoes: Haglofs Gram XC 2016
Good outing with the Wessex bunch - Alan, Gavin, Tim, Dale, Jason, Becca, Becca, Julie, Sheila, and I suspect I missed someone... Got there a bit late as usual (work) but did the whole training 4/4/4. Can't help but get back to feeling this is a bit shorter than what I need though, so maybe next time I'll add 1/1/1 more at least...