Sunday Aug 12 |
 | Running 45:00 [1]4 km (11:15 / km) | |
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| Didn't intend to leave the house today, but Jen convinced me to go out to Burbage mines with her. I jogged about hanging bog roll and cheering, while she ran o'ing intervals in the heather. Then lunch in Outside. |
Saturday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering race 55:00 [5]***** 11 km (5:00 / km) | |
| spiked:29/30c |
| Day 6, Anagach. Feeling somewhat jaded by the time I started my warm-up. Bumped into Stan and Allan at the start, whose reminiscing about past WOC glories got me fired up. Started hard and felt like I faded towards the end, but no mistakes so a good result today. My first win in a Scottish 6 Day! |
| Running 25:00 [2]4 km (6:15 / km) | |
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| Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Then a looong drive home with GG with a brief stop-off to watch the nightlife in Carlisle. Scary. |
Friday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering race 35:00 [5]*** 6 km (5:50 / km) | |
| spiked:14/15c |
| Day 5, Camerory. Not the best terrain and very physical. Lost a load of time at a control (one of several) that was in the wrong place. Then ran very hard to minimize the damage - fortunately for me most others lost time as well. 2nd behind Duncan and around 6 mins up overall. |
| Running 25:00 [2]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Still not raining... |
| Running 10:00 [3]2 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Hung out at the celdieh (?) party then legged it back to the campsite. |
Thursday Aug 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:00:00 [5]***** 10 km (6:00 / km) | |
| spiked:26/28c |
| Day 4, Culbin. Really nice course and terrain, but not a lot of sparkle today...couple of small mistakes on the first and last controls but otherwise OK. Floundered in the heather. Pretty far down on GG who turned out for a celebrity appearance. Also lost a precious couple of mins to Allan. |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Almost sunny. |
Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Running 25:00 [1]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Rest day and much needed after drinking a lethal cocktail of, well, cocktails the night before. Special thanks to Oleg for the banana surprise. Chilled out at the beach (not quite as literally as Ben) and went for a half-arsed jog from the event centre. The sun actually shone today. |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Orienteering race 1:25:00 [5]**** 16 km (5:19 / km) | |
| spiked:23/25c |
| Day 3, Uath Lochans. Long race today on a great area of tough forest. Started almost last and had a great run, just a few small mistakes. |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| It was raining again. |
| Running 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Early morning/late night run back to the campsite. Bumped into about 20 drunken orienteers making a citizens' arrest of a couple of would-be bike thieves. |
Monday Aug 6 |
| Orienteering race 35:00 [5]**** 6 km (5:50 / km) | |
| spiked:10/10c |
| Day 2, Craig Buie. Middle distance course with strange planning, few controls and easy long legs with just a few tricky ones. A good run with no mistakes, ran hard all the way, scraped a 6 sec victory over Allan Mogenson, not exactly increasing the overall lead... |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Jogging with Nick B (in the rain). |