Sunday Aug 12 |
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| (rest day) |
| Tired and sore after last weeks races. |
Saturday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering race 1:03:00 [4]10 km (6:18 / km) +260m 5:35 / km | |
| shoes: O shoes |
| Day 6. Seeded start. I was heartened by my run yesterday, so started off hard and caught my 3 minute man at number 6. We were together for a few controls before I started to pull away on the way to 18. Ran cleanly to the end, biggest mistake was 45 secs on number 13.
Finished 11th on the day, and 13th overall for the week, but a bit off the top 10, which was mostly from all the time I lost on day 3.
Anyway, in the words of Gordon Ramsay: Orienteering season....done.
It's been a good one, and I've exceeded my expectations. Got a few things to work on for next season and hopefully I can keep on improving.
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| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: O shoes |
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Friday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering race 35:00 [4]5.1 km (6:52 / km) +110m 6:12 / km | |
| shoes: O shoes |
| Day 5. Middle race. Finally had a good run and got it together. Only made a couple of small wobbles, nothing over 15 secs, and other people seemed to be making bigger misses. Finished 4th, 40 secs down on Duncan who won the day. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: O shoes |
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Thursday Aug 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:04:00 [4]9.6 km (6:40 / km) +100m 6:20 / km | |
| shoes: O shoes |
| Day 4. Chasing start. Started well, caught James Tullie by 1 minute early and got caught by the guy starting 10 secs behind me. We ran well together until the butterfly where I had the different gaffle. Lost 2 mins on a control in the green, but then caught James up again on the long leg to 19. We were then scrappy to the end, losing a couple more minutes. Stomach felt bad over the last few kms.
Started 14th, finished 14th, but lost a bit of time to the people behind me. Position wise in the 20s again, but at least today I was a bit closer to the leaders. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics trail shoes |
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Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Running 30:00 [3]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
| (rest day) shoes: Asics trail shoes |
| Run round Aviemore with Dave. Legs tired after yesterday. |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Orienteering race 1:43:00 [4]14 km (7:21 / km) +390m 6:27 / km | |
| shoes: O shoes |
| Day 2. Classic race. I'm still at a bit of a loss as to what happened today. Was so so so far off the pace. Lost a few minutes through mistakes, but that still doesn't explain how far down I was. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: O shoes |
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Monday Aug 6 |
| Orienteering race 40:00 [4]5 km (8:00 / km) +180m 6:47 / km | |
| shoes: O shoes |
| Day 2. Middle race. Had my early start and was pretty poor. No urgency, lots of mistakes and never got into it. Miles down again, and somewhere in the 20s position wise. Disappointing. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
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