Sunday Jun 8 |
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| Event: HOC National Event, Brown Clee
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 | Orienteering race 1:33:00 [4]13 km (7:09 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5) |
| Long selection race at Brown Clee. I retired. I hate retiring and not being able to complete what I set out to do, but it just wasn't going to happen. Right from the start I didn't feel right, but I was plodding round quite cleanly. Picked the wrong route to #7 and Speakey (my 3 minute man caught me). Ran with him quite easily to #11 but took a different route on the long leg to #12 and lost him.
I had taken some energy gel on the way to #10 and my stomach reacted badly, by the time I got to #12 I felt quite sick and was then only able to half walk / half jog up to the drinks point near #14. Took on water and (foolishly) more energy gel, hoping it would solve the problem. It made it worse, and by #17 it was too painful to run so I called it a day.
A disappointing end to what has been at times a pretty good season. With the exception of the JK, I have managed to get a little bit more consistency in my better results and finished two places higher in the UK Cup. Tied with Rob but he beat me on countback! |
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| C • Season 1 |
Saturday Jun 7 |
| Orienteering race 16:01 [5]2.9 km (5:31 / km) +50m 5:05 / km | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (1) |
| Sprint selection race round Shrewsbury town centre. Started and finished through an ornamental garden, but the rest was on roads. Lots of route choice on the legs and a couple of uncrossable wall traps on numbers 5 and 12. Unfortunately I got caught out by number 5 (along with a lot of other people) and that lost me 30 seconds. I perhaps missed some of the optimum route choices, but I think that there wasn't much in it so if you made your decision quickly and executed it cleanly there was minimal time loss.
Finished in 13th place, which was a little disappointing, but was only 61 seconds behind the winner, which is the closest I have been in the sprint races this year.
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| Orienteering race 41:54 [4]6.1 km (6:52 / km) +270m 5:37 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5) |
| Middle selection race at Weston Heath and Bury Walls. There was a lot of bracken, and I feel sorry for the early starters who were making the tracks through it for the rest of us. A tough tricky course up and over the crags for the first 5km, then a lung busting burn-up through fields for the last 1km.
Lost time at #2 by going low, wobbled a bit going into #13, then missed #16 and #17. Despite that, none of them were major and I kept my time loss low and got 10th place, which is by a long way my best position in a middle race of this standard. |
| Running warm up/down 40:00 [2]5 km (8:00 / km) | |
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| Warming up and down for both races. |
Friday Jun 6 |
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| Event: GBR WOC Selection Races (Middle and Sprint)
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| (rest day) |
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Thursday Jun 5 |
| Running 37:00 [3]7.5 km (4:56 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (1) |
| Lunch run, with 10 * 30 sec strides thrown in. |
Wednesday Jun 4 |
| Orienteering 35:02 [4]6 km (5:50 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5) |
| Middle race training course on Longshaw with Rich. Tried to push reasonably hard and run cleanly. Quality evening to be out in the Peaks. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3]5 km (6:00 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5) |
| Warm up and warm down. |
Tuesday Jun 3 |
| Running 55:00  10 km (5:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (1) |
| Run home from work, with 10 * Blake Street power hills at the end. Laura D (walking) = 2 points. Rach's housemate Jenn (walking) = 4 points. Running total = 42 points.
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| C • whoah, I thought your 10 po... 13 |
Monday Jun 2 |
| Running 38:00 [3]7.5 km (5:04 / km) | |
| (rest day) shoes: Asics Gel 1120 (1) |
| Run at lunch. |