Friday Jul 13 |
 | Orienteering race 20:15 [5]***** 2.2 km (9:12 / km) +130m 7:06 / km | |
| ahr:173 max:189 spiked:15/22c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Silesia Grand Prix Sprint prologue: The craziest race I have ever done in my life! 1:2000 map of an old slate quarry, sprint race with people everywhere and controls every 100m on average! Totally screwed up the scale and lost two mins before I reached 100 metres, got more used to it after that but still a couple of errors when you relaxed even slightly. Didn't even think about being tired as the brain was working so hard. Amazing! |
Thursday Jul 12 |
| Orienteering 39:43 [4]***** 4.7 km (8:27 / km) | |
| ahr:165 max:184 spiked:9/11c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Middle style course from the hotel. Running tired but hard, navigating really well, traffic lighting much improved and wide view really working out well. Finally getting the hang of this stuff! |
| Orienteering race 23:17 [4]***** 2.8 km (8:19 / km) | |
| ahr:166 max:184 spiked:8/10c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| "Sprint" round the hotel grounds - the vegetation was much worse than when the Swedes were there, and we did the men's course. Route choice good but legs really really tired and brain slightly lagging a little. |
Wednesday Jul 11 |
| Orienteering 1:15:56 [4]***** 7.4 km (10:16 / km) | |
| ahr:160 max:179 spiked:16/18c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Starting to get tired now, course at Adamov was beautiful but felt like the whole thing was uphill! Really attacking the controls well, a couple of small misses when concentration lapsed. Running up all the hills still, just not particularly fast! |
| Orienteering 1:05:48 [3]***** 6.9 km (9:32 / km) | |
| ahr:159 max:175 spiked:11/13c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| "Downhill" course at the hotel. Not actually that downhill at all, and though I was orienteering well my speed was much reduced so it would have been hard not to! A couple of interesting route choice legs, would have been good to have a couple more girls to compare times with on those ones. |
Tuesday Jul 10 |
| Orienteering long 1:20:33 [4]**** 9 km (8:57 / km) | |
| ahr:153 max:178 spiked:14/15c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Attempted a 12km classic race at Dlouha Voda. The conditions were wet and slippy and the grass was really long, meaning it was physically very challenging. Was very tired by the time I hit number 14, so cut the last loop and dropped off the hill. Navigating positively for a 1:15000, looking ahead well, planning ahead and running strongly but not particularly fast. Hitting the controls bang on with a good picture of the site. Nice! |
Monday Jul 9 |
| Orienteering 59:29 [4]**** | |
| ahr:152 max:181 spiked:11/16c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Trains exercise with Andy. Drifted a little on the first set, so upped concentration for the rest. Main issue was the green/light green. Very variable visibility which we soon realised meant you always needed a back up plan to the straight option. Simplify well and use all the detail on the map - never, drift into the thicker stuff or you'll not come out alive! |
| Orienteering 1:02:56 [3]***** 6.2 km (10:09 / km) | |
| ahr:152 max:167 spiked:14/18c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Wide view course - spiking the majority of controls on contour features really confidently, but in the flatter areas still drifting a little - had to go out and come back in to two controls - should have just slowed down and ticked it all off the first time round. Got bitten by something nasty in the calf, making it rock solid and pretty sore for the next few days! |
Sunday Jul 8 |
| Orienteering race 40:48 [4]***** 4.8 km (8:30 / km) | |
| ahr:181 max:194 spiked:13/19c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Silva O Camp, boys Elite race. Good to get into the terrain, a bit messy in the circles of come but generally reading the gross detail well. Not always smooth into the circle though, especially in the green. |
| Running 20:49 [2] | |
| ahr:127 max:168 |
| Warm up and down jog to the afternoon's exercise. |
| Orienteering 49:42 [4]**** 5.5 km (9:02 / km) | |
| ahr:163 max:177 spiked:12/17c shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Trainign course in the afternoon. Again, struggling in the circle at the start but once got into the flow much better. Need to concentrate so hard, the lack of features makes it so much more important and it's very easy to drift. Need to aggresively spot features ahead and left and right and confidently hit your feature. |
Saturday Jul 7 |
| Running 21:19 [2] | |
| ahr:143 max:168 shoes: Saucony Cohesion |
| Nice easy short recovery run post day of travelling from the hotel. Gorgeous forest with nothing on the floor, nice and warm. Mmmm. |