Sunday Jul 20 |
 | Foot Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
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| Orienteering race (WOC Relay) 47:00 [5]**** | |
| shoes: Adidas Neptune XS |
| solid race, still not super happy but it could have been worse. got straight into it and hit the first 2 good, but then lost confidence on the 3rd - started thinking i was making a parallel error (when i wasnt) so continued on running, but realised and went back. lost maybe 30secs which wasnt too bad, but i lost a bit to the leaders so i ran pretty hard for the next few legs to get back up there. then i just got tired and couldnt handle the pace, which was real disappointing. made a couple of small misses after but nothing too serious. result was ok, a few mins behind but still with plenty of good teams around (actually, most of the start field is good). simon and jules finished us off well to take out 15th. finished a pretty disappointing woc for me, i'm gonna have to run in trondheim. |
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| C • Yeah, trondheim! 2 |
Saturday Jul 19 |
| Orienteering 33:00 [3]**** | |
| ahr:140 max:164 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| bit of running around the woc spectator race after the long final, which has the same finish as the relay, just to get a bit of a look at the forest we might be going into in the relay. |
Friday Jul 18 |
| Orienteering (Relay Model) 40:00 [3]**** | |
| ahr:125 max:155 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| Cruised around the relay model, checking it out, running some bits a bit harder, getting stung by nettles. Looks good i reckon, its steep but runnable and the map seems good. |
Thursday Jul 17 |
| Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Adidas Neptune XS |
| running around the warm up map. |
| Orienteering race (WOC Middle Qual) 34:00 [5]***** | |
| ahr:167 max:179 shoes: Adidas Neptune XS |
| Started good, i reckon this is the best i've felt at any WOC, not sick, not injured etc. Ran solid for the first 4 controls then lost confidence and didn't see the 5th, despite running straight to the right rockface. So lost 50seconds there. Then in the second half i ran carefully through the flat green controls and mostly hit them, but made 2 big mistakes. Not sure what more i could have done to hit them, i was being real careful. Just felt like i was playing bingo, whichever way you attacked the control you always had to run across some flat ground with virtually no visibility. I was f*cken miles behind the lead, but only in 18th, which shows it was tricky and a lot of guys were missing these controls. Real disappointed, this is the first time i've missed a middle final at WOC. Then seeing the final course, which looked awesome, made it even worse! Ah well, i was more focussed on relays this year so now its time to forget the middle and think about running the first leg in the world champs relay... |
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| C • tough luck 5 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Orienteering (Middle Model) 35:00 [3]***** | |
| ahr:133 max:172 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| Cruised around the middle model. Finished with the usual 4 x 30secs efforts with 2min jog recovery. Feeling good, pumped for tomorrow. |
Tuesday Jul 15 |
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Monday Jul 14 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
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| Orienteering 50:00 [3]**** | |
| ahr:130 max:165 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| Middle distance training at Kamenec. Mostly ran with the Fornicator, Simon and Jas checking out the map and forest, but ran some legs a bit harder. Ate some awesome giant radioactive raspberries where we parked. Sweet as. Got some sort of pastry thing after too which had pesto in it. Rad. |
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| C • rad... 2 |