Sunday May 6 |
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| Event: British Orienteering Champs - Relay
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 | Orienteering race 40:57 [4]6.5 km (6:18 / km) +110m 5:49 / km | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| After selection dilemmas, the first team was decided as me, Nick and Neil in that order. I tried to put the horrible memories of my last British relay first leg run on an open area (Penhale) out of my head and focus on getting round cleanly.
Started off a little too steady, but picked up places on the slog across the heather from controls 1 to 3. By then, a pack of me, Duncan, Andy L, Rich and Ian had broken away. It turned out that Duncan, Andy and I had the same gaffle and at the spectator control we had dropped Rich but Ian was still there on the other gaffle. Andy tired a little on the last section and I managed to pull out a minute on him and hand over to Nick in 2nd, just a few seconds down on Duncan. Job done.
Nick had a strong run, and came back 20 secs up on Marcus, setting Neil and Oli off on a last leg shoot off. We had worked out they had the same gaffle, and when they came through the spectator control neck and neck it was getting very exciting. Neil made a small miss and Oli took his opportunity to get ahead and held that until the end. Great race.
And the excitement didn't stop there. Rob outsprinted Joe Mercer to taker the bronze medal for our second team. Brilliant! |
| Running 25:00 [3]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| Warm up and warm down. Feet pretty sore after the race so not a very long or comprehensive warm down. |
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| It's been a great weekend for Sheffield based athletes with lots of medals in the individual and relay events. Congratulations to everybody. The mens relay podium was especially good.
We finished the weekend off nicely with about 25 of us going out for a meal and few celebratory drinks. |
Saturday May 5 |
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| Event: British Orienteering Champs - Individual
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| Orienteering race 1:31:56 [4]14.1 km (6:31 / km) +360m 5:47 / km | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| From the details, I thought this was going to be a fast and furious race with good runnability throughout, but I was wrong and underestimated how tough it was going to be. Made an awful start and blew 2 minutes on the first control. Got my head together well and ran the next section strongly until I drifted on the long leg. Got caught by Duncan and Oli when I missed on number 15 and the rest, as they say, is history.
It undoubtedly helped me running with Oli and Duncan, and I may not have done that time on my own. However, I was really pleased that I was running well enough to stay with them and in control of the map. |
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| C • congrats 2 |
| Running 30:00 [3]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| Warm up and warm down with Rob and Oli. My stomach was a complete mess again after this race, I think it's either the gels or taking on water on an empty stomach. Need to practice both. |
Friday May 4 |
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| (rest day) |
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Thursday May 3 |
| Running 28:00 [3]6 km (4:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Road shoes |
| Short easy run to loosen up my legs after the fell race. |
Wednesday May 2 |
| Running race 35:17 [5]9 km (3:55 / km) +300m 3:22 / km | |
| shoes: Asics trail shoes |
| Tiger's Todger fell race. Really dry conditions but I still managed to fall in a marsh when I went the wrong side of the river at the top of Limb Valley. Came 2nd, but only because the lead pack of 5 went the wrong way in Lady Cannings. Even the guy who won last year got lost. Ran a faster time than last year, which is the main thing. |
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| C • muppets 3 |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3]5 km (6:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics trail shoes |
| Warm up and down. |
Tuesday May 1 |
| Road biking 1:32:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Cycling shoes |
| What an amazing evening for a ride in the peaks. Rivelin Valley road, Lodge Lane (ouch), Wyming Brook, Ringinglow, Burbage bridge, Surprise View, Fox House, Eccy Road. Pretty windy up on the tops though.
Distance: 38.5km
Av. speed: 25.5 km/hr
Max speed: 64.6 km/hr |
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| Got back this evening and had an e-mail selecting me to run the World Cup race in Norway, which is quite exciting. Just need to see if I can get the time off work. |
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| C • do it! 6 |
Monday Apr 30 |
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| (rest day) |
| Body tired after the weekend so having a rest. Although that's easier said than done because the weather is just so nice. |