Saturday Nov 4 |
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| Event: Oxford City Race
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 | Orienteering race (Oxford City Race) 45:18 [4] **** 6.29 km (7:12 / km) | |
| spiked:26/29c (injured) shoes: Salomon Speed Cross |
| 1230 - Oxford City Centre. 1:5'000. Sprint map of Oxford. Started at University Parks and toured the main city, dodging through pedestrians, bikes and traffic. Lots of nooks and crannies amongst the university. Finished 16th, Oli Johnson winning in 36:45. ITB hurt like hell. Only a couple of small mistakes, mainly overshooting controls that were hung against walls. |
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Open - Splits |
Thursday Nov 2 |
| Mountain Biking (East Anglia) 3:30:00 [2] 50 km (4:12 / km) | |
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| 1100 - Rode a borrowed bike from Parham, Suffolk through to Snape Maltings, Aldeburghe and back. Got caught in the dark after about 4.30pm. The bike was a bit hard as well (no shocks) but most of the route was tar anyway. Superb countryside, single lane roads and tall hedges on either side. |
Monday Oct 30 |
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| weight:76kg (injured) |
| Flying out to UK today. No training until Saturday to give my ITB plenty of rest. |
Sunday Oct 29 |
| Mountain Biking race (Cape Storm Rogaine) 5:57:38 [4] *** 62 km (5:46 / km) +1752m 5:03 / km | |
| (injured) shoes: Specialized Epic 2006 |
| 0805 - Kaapschehoop. 1:30'000. Won overall and mixed with Susan, just 25 points ahead of Richard and Rika. We had bad bike troubles (20 mins) and Susan felt really bad most of the way. Only just won, with good control selection and a strong last hour seeing us through. We though we were going to be seriously over-time for a while. My ITB warmed up after about an hour and started fading to a moderate level. |