Relay training, many elites from local club joined for a mass start on previous 10mila area, men and woman courses.
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/GBG-Tekniktraning/B...Goals:
- stop and take a solid bearing at each control site (worked well, did not need to apply on every control, as out route was obvious in some cases, but when it wasnt, having this simple goal helped)
- run low threshold pace (i tried to maintain a nice flow pace throughout, not pushing and not being lazy, felt really nice, flowed up hills effortlessly)
Quite a long warmup before hand, but felt good, springy and light, leg felt good. on the edge of chilly. Had a bit of mental game going on, from Thursdays horror hoping i would come back better today. I was now better rested, relaxed and fewer goals to think about.
1 - long leg to start, slowly got moving and spotted there wasnt much room to go wrong here expect the marsh in the middle, so started immediately up the hill on right, a bit up and down, but soon found myself cruising on the south side of the marsh hills, took a nice line aiming for the big hill before control. knew to stay high, aimed to use corner of hill as AP then guide in more carefully to cliff. honestly was hard to judge exatly where I was along the hill side but bearing was good, passed another gaffel, slowed checked contours was right above it, boom! already better than thursday.
2 - set the bearing and go, had eyed thisup already, aiming for the cliffs then marsh and into control. Open hill was very noticable. boom
3 - got taken a little right ot of control to skirt the contour then straightened up in a slight S shape over the spur and into control. textbook
4 - spotted the nice line right, and marsh looked ugly so stayed dry and though the gap, over marsh and could then see control
5 - had eyed up start of this leg already and aimed up the rentrant between the crags, round to end of hill top, from there plan was to control pick to the round hill next to marsh, just by control. little confusing to keep exact track in these spots, so need to ensure a good line and target. which i had.
6 - short leg, imporatnt to get the right line out, which i did. then felt ok to drift left onto the natural cut line in terrain. saw the big crag above control, then nicely into control.
7 perhaps my weakest leg, main reason I didnt properly judge wehre control was, staying high round left was best, but I immediately came down into the trap and then had to come round from left side. stuttering a bit. good planning
8 - interesting leg, could have planned a bit better, but came out and aimed directly into the valley, kept it simple on the path, thought maybe could cut through crags, slowing to check map, but was not posisble so cruised round which was fine, but I could have perhaps been more decisive from the start, or cut up left early. into ontrol was good, the big rentrant was clear.
9 - tactic hear worked really well, immediately broke leg into two, imagining a second control mid leg on the path under clliff, therefore I could ignore the second part for now. It was then much clearer to bounce between the hills, and crags, keep tabs of my line to not run up the wrong marsh. felt super strong physically and caught some folk here (just cruising). nearing last section, made sure to stay high of little marsh, and careful here not to loose track of myself. Spotted the open hill and boom.
10 - immediately wanted to stay left here, nice line thorugh rentrant up and in.
11 - gaffle here caught some people out, but i kept my line, wish i kept more right tho to avoid the marsh, at hill climb didnt know exatly where I was, but reminded my self i didnt need to. could use the high point, marsh and spur on right as guidance. boom.
12 - tricky leg, no clear AP, so good bearing out. after first climb was scanning alot to get an indiaction where i was, checking line, hit the tower, ok im on line. then used my position well, following a nice line into control from left. baby steps
13 - down hill now, thought about trying to pick up the pace, but felt wary of making a mistake at the same time, testing my limits of knowing when to push vs nav. control was ok to start aim for hill then after high point follow edge of flat into contl. reentrant wasnt as big as I expected but it was there.
14 - good bearing out. go. counting the crossing points, 1,2,3, deliberatly came right a little, spotted the boulder to my right i knew where to go.
15 - good bearing out, and aim straight, slight up hill, then throught the gap. tried to grasp the finish, so boulder, with open ridge before, big rentrant befroe that, dropped in and kept momentum up, over spur, quick check down to control boom
16 stop check, out to path, and finish
- have fewer goals then you are more liekly to accomplish one
- in diffuse terrain (or flat) good line! good line! and a target!
- good bearings needed on those short legs.
- take 3 secs to read short legs if you havnt planned them (7)
- remember those times you dont know ehere you are, ask if you realy need to know, or more what is the next step to look for?
- careful and be aware of picking up speed and where its safe to do it