Training Log Archive: Bryn

Morning training. Went out to some map was bit rough compared to what we have been on. Very hot thou was dripping in sweat by the time i finished. Bit of rest now then will head out to another map later. The sea looks really nice might have to try to go for a swim before we leave here.

Was supposed to go to a map this afternoon but had to wait 2.5hrs for a doctor so that kinda blew any chances so was rather gutted. Went for a nice run along the side of the beach which was nice, well intill i got scared by something moving in the bushes!!!

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Same area as Yesterday so still very fast map. Started off rather steady but then started to make small mistakes and then more and more. Saw Piret a number of times once asking where i was and then another time i then did a 180 error. Was cool map thou loving Portugal wish i could stay for another 6days ohhh thats right i am SWEEETTTT. Poor neil has to go home thou

Well was supposed to be a middle event but yeah took me a tad longer!! Wasnt going to bad till control 19 went straight past 20 then got to 21 so had to go back. Was such a fast map map and so open like no under growth at all!!! Winner did 28min so just a weeeee bit behind. My running isnt going to bad thou so thats a good thing i guess just gotta sort out my oing!!

First race of the Ori show. Never done once before and neither had the Orginisers, they only had one box for the first control so when all 50 people got to turned out to be a bit of a scrum!!! Luckily punched it in about 10th so wasnt to bad then just crusied around the couse as the first 15 went through to nxt round think i finished 5th.

Semi Final, only top two would go through out of the 30 that where in it. Luckily this time they put out 3 boxes for the first control so wasnt so much pushing. Had to push hard in this one a Danish guy and I had same loop so we were racing together i went the wrong way out of the final pivot control which lost me about 10m to him and another Dane got in front so finished 3rd. Lucky for me they changed it from top 2 to top 3 went through. But then unlucky for me turns out i missed punched haha ohh well that will teach me

Was good fun though look forward to the nxt one

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WRE Long Event, Was such a warm day easily over the 20degrees i reackon!! I was one of the last starters, Neil started early and got back well before i had to get ready so his main hint was to take it easy at the start as it was rather tricky. Well yeah didnt help!! Blew the first one by miles think i lost 6min to others then stuffed second and 3rd and then 5th. but then started to sort myself out!! Was a bit stupid thou at one of the drink stations i decided to only have water and not my carbo shot as i would save if for the nxt time i went past well turns out i didnt go past again so just died lost more and more time from control 22 onwards think was was roughly the same time as Neil at that stage. I finished i bit back from leaders infact a long way back!!! Matthias Merz killed it and did a time of 1hr 23min like 5min clear from second. Man i wish i could run that fast!! I beat a few good people but just wish i had of had a clean run!!

First race of weekend. My pre race food wasnt really the best (Nutella and Peanuts) Map was rather fast took me a few controls to start to understand it. Kept making silly little mistakes but then i always seem to!!! Hopefully can learn to stop making these by the end of my week here!!! Winner did 34.18 so wasnt to far off the pace. I was 39th out of a feild of 121.

Jogged the night sprint with Neil. We only used his sport ident. Did some split bagging. Think we won every second one by quite a bit. One split he waited do the bottom of this massive ledge thing and i punched the control then lobbed the Ident down to him, we took 29ec next cloest was 40sec haha good fun!!!!

Event: Portugal 'O' Meeting 2009
 

First event in Portugal, after a interesting flight to get to Lisborn (via Faro) about a hr drive to get to event center. Was nice and warm and great to be oing even better to be some where new!!!

Well rather fun day. Meet neil at airport at 6am then got on Plane. got over the top of Lisbon then to be told that we have to go to Faro as there is to much fog to land. Land in Faro to be told we are just re fueling to then go back to Lisbon. After finally arriveing in Lisbon we started to sort out car rental for me to find i cant drive as i havent had my full lience for long enough. ohh well least Piret can, they then told us we are upgraded our car. Wicked we walk out to be shwon out car to find its a tiny Nissian Mirca. hmm ok well thats not to bad if it was only two of us to fit into it. luckily with neil lying sideways we got everything in. The only reason we could is cos the boot is bigger than the inside of the car!!
Least on the nice summers days we have here we can take the roof down oooohhh baby