Training Log Archive: JoshuaDudley

Control pick after work. Excited to run in this area because it’s tough.i got a full dose of it. Physical and technical. After a good warmup legs felt good and settled to get head in the game. Wanted to approach it as race style but let he orienteering set the pace. Good bearings out, clear plan and good map contact.

Set off strong, first control appeared a little further than expected but all was well. Kept regular contact to pick up the necessary detail. Next few controls were tricky. More green than map suggests. Came in a bit quick but was able to hit controls well. Was a bit of a jungle. 5 was tough felt like I got sucked into green followed renetrant down and hit boulder at marsh. Got a little confused hesitation to 6. Was in line just need to be confident with feature recognition, maybe a better attack point to hit marsh behind it. Green was shit the next bit not easy going, but picked my way through. 9 10 really good. Clear idea and well executed. Fluffed it on 11, came out with no plan and drifted right, relocated back on hill. Up to 16 went also very well smooth flow, plan and detail recognition went well. 17 hesitated just before and failed to spot the obvious wall. These down controls are something I could work on. Was a little left on 21, in big renetrant. Could be more aware of catching feature. Up to 26 like clockwork. Trying to push when I knew I could and slow to read next plan, good compass checking. 27 I was right on target but I stopped just before as there was a rock wall that I didn’t recognize. Detail that the mapper has ignrored . Up to the finish I was happy with my performance I was moving well in the terrain and things appeared as expected. A little drift right on 37 but spotted well before it became major.

Summary
- some great performances just need to ties them together
- downhill across legs can be improved, look for obvious features or good bearing
- try to use surround area to catch when nearing control

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O intervals session in skatos. Was feeling quite tired from the day before but after the warmup my head and legs were ready to go. As it wasnt a long training I felt more positive about going at it.

Aim was for competitive pace (as much as my legs would allow), but to keep the focus but also test the physical edge.

I was happy with my performance, technically it was fairly solid. Some really clean areas that felt like clockwork. In this thick terrain I probably was not moving overly quick, but the physical toughness adds another test to navigating also. I was maintaining regular contact, picking nice routes and planning little steps ahead (keeping it simple) then check back when ready to progress the plan. This kept less memory orienteering in my head and allowed me to scan the forest more and hopefully result in cleaner orienteering. Had a little iffy section where I hit a boulder under a red line thinking it was mine, this put me offline to the next control. I worked it out relocating soon after.

Another proof of my weakness on downhill crosses occured again here, i came down to soon finding myself in the wrong cliff. I need a better strategy for these.

Summary:
- keep good map contact, and simple plan - works well
- bearings working well also
-define strategy for down-across rocky slopes/cliffs

Steady forest course to get some quality o in before the sprint.

Aim was mass start with Oskar and to at an easy pace. I wanted to nail my controls and use the easy pace to pick up good detail and really understand and feel the map. Think a little abuot the way I was doing things and reflect on it. Map sale was 7500 which was a nice change, could actually read it easily and focus more on the orienteering.

1 - straight line was clear, up onto ridge and looking the two dot knols, boulder behind. 2, quick bearing, follow the cliff edge (which was hard to see) but use large boulder on left as reference, in just after knoll. 3 quick scan, head out right for best line up cliffs, picking my way into control, easy. 4 a bit more complex, set bearing to first channel, then rechecked, could go under cliffs, stuck to them to come up and round, right in place. 5 long leg, started simple, out to path. used the path to plan. keep close to line, using wee paths, then bearing off to green, follow green round saw left line through hill gap but marsh looked horrible so stayed right up steep cliff, then continued as if I was on the line but was right, so came into control wrong reentrant, should have quickley noticed but I fooled around. For next time I need a better attackpoint or bearing to ensure I am on the right line.

The rest of controls went well. cut from 7-18. I was making good plans, solid bearings and really reading alot of map detail. A little hiccup on 19 didnt slow to see the fine detail until i was 10m past it.

Summary
- when coming at a control parallel to a steep cliff, know exactly which line you are coming in on or atleast what to use after the cliff otherwise its just guessing, needs to be more concrete

First sprint for a while. Chance to really test the brain and speed after already oritnerrrig and trying to maintain focus. Very close to my new place, it’s even on the map!!!

Fun sprint. Map was a bit strangely made, some of the features were very thin so hard to notice. Aim of doing the spint was to practice nailing controls, and planning when tired and under a little pressure. Made a couple of silly mistakes near the end not checking the map that little bit more but on the hole quite smooth performance. Knee could feel it on the tarmac about half way round.

Down hill o intervals. Started with an uphill intervals to the top of the hill. 4 x up and down again. approx 800m to hill top the 800m of course down.

Pushed a little hard on the first one to be with the front runners but felt really tired on the following. First proper interval session since my injury.

First loop, i was sloppy to first control, poor bearing and had no plan. The controls following this were steady but not perfect.

Second loop, really focussed on the orienteering, first 3 controls went well, good plan, kept checking compass. then last control fucked it came to low. Didnt keep my head in it. this was a boulder on a slope

Third loop went smooth. i could have attacked first control a bit straighter but i took a simplified route curving round from right.

Fourth loop, i was very tired when i got to the top. first and second kept good contact and made clean lines. thirdd was a longer leg and i rushed into it with no plan. Bearing was poor. Ended up loosig time out right. Should have slowed, looked at options out of control and then executed.

Summary
/ some work to be done on down hill legs, especially long legs over detail to simplify down
- controls on slopes also need work

Relatively short wee course to get to the club house. Hand drawn. Felt strong and focused. Was trying to push the physical to stress the navigation. It worked well, I kept good contact mostly, one control I found myself misinterpreting the controles and cliffs, staying too high. Plan could have been better.

Summary:
-bearings good and solid
- even on short legs make a plan
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Great core session but felt sore afterwards. Guess it worked. Learned some new exercises.

Easy run home. Still felt good in the legs although quite hungry

Run to the climbing wall. Over took three cyclists on a race but they seemed particularly slow.

Felt good in the legs. Had a great sleep the night before.

Ran to Victoria’s to go for another run. Was feeling strong still.

Easy run with Victoria. Now she can start running again recovering from Achilles.