Sunday Mar 23 |
 | Orienteering race (JK Long) 1:31:30 [5] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
| 8th place, 4th Brit. Good but not great. Dunno where the planner thought he might catch out the elites with that course. Leaving my o-shoes at home over the JK cost me more time than not having a compass! (cos of the mud). Ran quite strongly the whole way, except Oli got me on the uphill finish bit grrrr. Good effort. 2 mistakes on number 8 (leaving 7 and in the circle) and couldn't find the pit at number 11 (again, was in the right place) - so lost about 2.5mins. 89 was the time to do as I was at the back of the pack, with a huge gap behind me. |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
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| C • 1 |
Saturday Mar 22 |
| Orienteering race (JK Middle) 36:36 [5] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
| 12th place, 7th? Brit. Bit of a poor showing really. Still, I nailed most of the course well so happy with those bits, just annoying when mistakes of 1-1.5mins at 6 and 16 make it all a bit pointless. Both times I was in the right place to begin with (i.e. within 10metres of the flag), but lost confidence and ran off (which makes it even more frustrating). My navigation was fine without a compass, and I should have been more confident in it. Running well though. Nicely tucked in behind a Sheffield posse. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
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Friday Mar 21 |
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| Event: JK 2008
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| Orienteering race (JK Sprint) 14:48 [5] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
| 7th place, 3rd Brit. Ran pretty good and got a pretty good result, but never quite on top of things and made lots of 5-10 seconders. Lost some time cos of slightly unnecessary hiding of controls (eg. wall end which isn't actually on the end but tucked behind the wall, or path crossing which isn't in the middle of the path crossing but tucked behind a thicket which you can't see from your approach). Still, I did some really good legs and kept the time losses to a minimum. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
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Thursday Mar 20 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Nice little loosener with Gracie in rather inclement conditions. |
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| C • Good to see... 3 |
Wednesday Mar 19 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Good job I didn't make any silly bets with Baker at the start of the year. |
Tuesday Mar 18 |
| Running intervals 20:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| 3x5mins (2mins rec) on roads with a net downhill. Felt fine. |
| Running 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| I bumped into Hargreaves and Furness out running (seperately) on Crookesmoor road and we stopped and had a chat. As I ran off, I tried to calculate the odds of that event occuring but I'd never dealt with numbers that big before. |
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| C • What time... 9 |
Monday Mar 17 |
| Running 57:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Decent paced road run up to Crookes, along to Lodge Moor, down Lodge Lane and back up the A57 to Crosspool. |