Friday Jan 12 |
 | Orienteering 1:09:34 [3]***** | |
| spiked:24/26c slept:8.0 shoes: Integrators |
| Two exercises on Esthwaite intake. First on the lower white slopes, spiked every control but was moving really slowly as my knees were really sore on the downhills. Then collected in butterfly exercise on Esthwaite intake. Gorgeous course, spiked most of the controls despite the darkness making the map rather difficult to read. No longer moving at full speed, really tired, but still navigating well despite this. |
Thursday Jan 11 |
| Orienteering 40:35 [5]***** | |
| spiked:17/21c slept:9.0 shoes: Integrators |
| Sprint training in Ambleside. 10 mins warm up, 5 mins warm down, 23.35 for the course which was about 4km. Mass start race with butterfly loops. Felt really in control this time, had worked out all my routes by the first five mins and although one of them was the majorly wrong choice, was at least seeing the options. Felt in control the whole way, took the same time as Amelie and was taking different route choices to her on purpose. Awesome, must better than the race on Sunday. |
| Orienteering 1:28:49 [4]***** | |
| ahr:139 max:201 spiked:10/13c slept:9.0 shoes: Integrators |
| More sprint training, this time in the Lost World on Graythwaite. We ran up there which took 35.35, the 2.2km race took 21.50 then ran down in 31.23. Had a scrappy middle section today, mostly due to not being sure of control descriptions. Once I began checking them my visualisation of the circle improved and it became much more confident. Great to get up to full speed in some technical stuff, really enjoyed it. |
Wednesday Jan 10 |
| Orienteering 1:30:40 [4]***** | |
| ahr:160 max:190 spiked:10/13c slept:7.0 shoes: Integrators |
| Middle race at Forest X. Had a 27.22 warm up running uphill to the area, then did 46.40 for a 5km ish course. Was all over the place at the beginning, 1:7500 map scale and quite un confident, then after going from 4-9 kicked myself into shape, spiked 5 and it was all great from there. Running well, navigating well, simplyfying with ease and visualising the circle well. Awesome. Then 16.38 run back down the hill to the cars. Great fun. |
| Hills 1:28:02 [5]** | |
| ahr:154 max:198 slept:7.0 shoes: Integrators |
| For the afternoon ran up the Old Man of Coniston. 49 minutes up with a couple of waits for the others. Feeling strong and quite mountain goatish, though the last steep climb was severe pain! The only good day of the week weather wise and beautiful views in the golden end of daylight at the end. Quicker run down, quite hard on the knees, but worth every step. Just a shame I forgot my camera. |
Tuesday Jan 9 |
| Orienteering 19:43 [3]***** | |
| ahr:146 max:169 slept:9.0 shoes: Integrators |
| Line exercise on Dale Park. Really good again, nice and smooth, no real diversions though a couple of very small ones. |
| Orienteering 1:14:46 [4]*** | |
| ahr:157 max:177 spiked:17/24c shoes: Integrators |
| Argh! Was all over the place at the start, then fell on the way to number 3 and smashed my right thigh, whilst smashing my compass in my left hand. Tried to carry on with compass but no confidence and was faffing everywhere. Met Suzanne at 7 and threw the compass away after a bit of a chat, and after that things were much better! Was obviously slower, but far more in touch with the map, planning routes much better, and slightly missed a couple of controls on slope where really would have liked the reassurance of a compass direction but promising I guess! If I can only put that together with the compass the rest of the week should be much better. Legs were heavy though. |
| Intervals 1:10:07 [4] | |
| ahr:168 max:187 slept:9.0 shoes: Off Road Sauconys |
| Was feeling a bit sorry for myself in general after compass death, O shoe near death and general rubbishness so fae this week so drove back to Yorkshire and did my afternoon session there. After Speakey reminded me of the existence of Foxdals this week I did an hour of 90:30s and it was a lot of fun. Legs feeling better by the end of the run after heaviness this morning. Had a ten minute warm down and good stretch afterwards, so hopefully legs should feel a bit more alive tomorrow. |
Monday Jan 8 |
| Orienteering 49:00 [4]***** 5 km (9:48 / km) | |
| spiked:13/17c slept:6.5 shoes: Integrators |
| Didn't sleep too well overnight and felt a bit sluggish today. Made sure for each leg had a clear attack point, good plan, and exit route before I reached it. Worked much better, felt much smoother, more confident and more fluid. Missed a couple of controls as didn't want to fight through windblown. But much better. |
| Orienteering 41:00 [4]***** | |
| slept:6.5 shoes: Integrators |
| Line course on Bishop Woods. Went really well, went quite slowly but smoothly and only dropped off the line once on my way downhill in the thick green stuff. Felt like I spent a long time fighting in the green but really felt in control the whole way. Yey. |
| Circuits 34:13 [4] | |
| ahr:130 max:162 |
| Short circuits session indoors with the girls. Loads of abs work, did a rotating 4 sets of 4 exercises, 3 times each exercise with 5 seconds rest between. Good fun, and not a bad work out for a very improvised living room session! |
Sunday Jan 7 |
| Orienteering 48:43 [5]***** 5 km (9:45 / km) | |
| ahr:181 max:184 spiked:15/18c slept:12.0 shoes: Integrators |
| Made up for the sleep and was looking forward to a good day today. Unfortunately the high spike rate doesn't reflect the total brain blow up in the middle! Convinced myself I was right and then mistook the control I was looking for the the next one - cue lots of confused wandering about! finally relocated on big track and did the rest spot one, really well. Must have lost a good 5 or 6 mins with absolutely no idea what was happening though. Grrr. No sign of yesterday's sore throat though which is good. |
| Orienteering 18:42 [5]***** 2.8 km (6:41 / km) | |
| ahr:185 max:200 spiked:6/11c slept:12.0 shoes: Integrators |
| What a pile of shite. Ran badly, didn't even see most of the best route choices till the end, and fuddled the ones I did make well. Wasn't smooth, was definitely not in control. Really disappointing. Still enjoyed it though, cool place for a sprint. |
Saturday Jan 6 |
| Orienteering 1:34:21 [4]*** 7.2 km (13:06 / km) | |
| ahr:148 max:191 spiked:14/16c slept:4.0 shoes: Integrators |
| Trains exercise with the girls on Great Green Hows. 1.2km or so run in, 1km run out, 5km trains. Talk O'ed and jogged the open controls at the start and end then did three sets of trains in the green stuff! Was pleasantly surprised, coped well under pressure, planned routes well, visualising well and most importantly fighting hard through the dark green, which really needed the fight in places! Chest felt a little tight, probably just due to small amount of sleep and first hard run in a couple of weeks. Good fun and a gorgeous early evening. |