Training Log Archive: graeme

(still ill)
On the plus side, entered the Canadians and hired bear spray. It's America - weaponry is the only response.

C • bears 3

(ill) BOC relay.
Tucked up in a cag all the way round, which says everything really. Legs didn't want to know. Very boring course. Lots of short legs with a bit of bingo action where the map made no sense.

Boys won the M18 relays!

Freddiec came back 4.5 mins down, which turned out to be due to the long gaffel: he was fastest of 20 on that lap! James pulled back 3 mins, also fastest on his leg, leaving lexc to catch 90sec on Alastair Thomas. In classic Alex fashion he closed the gap already by 6, decided that was a bit boring so chucked in a 2 minute error, then closed the gap again by the spectator and won it on the final loop. Quality racing :)

(ill) BOC 24/81 Quentin 63
If you have to choose a BOC to trundle round with a cold, the weird non-Euclidean metric of Brown Clee Hill is a good one. Stuffed up the first three, making no sense of the map (except on 1&2 when I actually did go there, just didn't see the flag and lost confidence). After that, all pretty nominal: tried hard enough to fall over a lot.

When we entered, there was a promise of a lidared map, in the end they just added a load more pits so that nobody could really tell if it was in the right one :(

One truly surreal leg: I spotted a wet pit was in the only bit of white for miles around. I went straight to the lone tree, punched, and went on. Onlater inspection, there is no white on the map... I really was in a different world today.

n.b. "long" champs = no leg > 5mins. Woeful.

Next up - R'lyeh urban.

(ill). Not the best time to get a cold. Especially if it goes to James for his exams.

KB dash, fairly cruisey with Brian Kirkwood all the way until the last 50m.

In, and later around the dash

ELO sprintELOpe, Tranent. Nice.
Massive hailstorm on the way home. Even nicer to avoid!

Home, there and back again

4x1km 3:58 57 51 48. Cruising.