Training Log Archive: phatmax

Warm up prior to London City race. Was feeling a bit lethargic, combination of a couple of nights of bad sleep, and very early morning and long day yesterday

London city race. First event since last year’s Vic sprint, so very rusty on the orienteering.
Dropped 20 seconds on the first control when I was looking for a set of stairs instead of the ramp I had correctly run to. Looked around, then reread the map, and realised the ramp was right. Then blew about 2:30 on 3. Missed seeing that the passage way I wanted to use was blocked, so had to double back, then ran past the road I wanted and ended up I street further. Meant covering about 350m extra distance. After that settled and navigated well, with no significant issues or hesitations.
Legs got tired toward the end, when I tried to push a bit.

Despite the errors the run was good enough for the win. Apparently a crane operator was blocking one of the route choices on the leg to 3, so despite my errors I was 5th fastest. In the end the organisers took that leg out. Oddly enough that reduced the winning margin.
Note a good result on a number of levels. The organisers should have just voided the race. Also I would rather have had an error free race and finished down the order than make a frustrating mistake.

Course 7 - Splits

Outer and inner loops of Regents Park, then out to the airport. A couple of days in Bucharest for NATO S&T Board.
Wore new vapour fly 4% for first time, very light and very comfortable. My only slight negative is that the toe box is a bit tighter than I have been used to. Had ordered a pair of flyknit, but they sent the vapour fly by mistake. Not complaining as I would not have been able to afford the vapour fly at real price, and normally there is no discount, not even for Nike employees.

Loop around St James Park and Green Park.

Gym session. over a week since the last one, could be feeling it a bit tomorrow.