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Saturday Apr 29, 2017 #
9 PM
Run -- Trail 25:00 [2]
Woke up and throat not as bad.
Didn't bother with a morning or afternoon early warm up run
Didn't bother with a morning or afternoon early warm up run
Orienteering Night 1:28:00 [4]
10MILA - 2nd leg
Willy ran first and did ok. I guess he is disappointed but well inside the top 100 and with Regborn smashing it and effectively making a joke out of the results from first leg this was good enough. Relay running is about no one person trying too hard or trying to be special. I felt confident we was still in with a chance of a good team result.
Waiting at the map change I noticed a lot of good lads coming back down and a some of older/solid orienteers come in high up, comentry also talking a lot about mistakes so I realized this was even more technical than expected. That cheered me up even more.
Set off and orinteered pretty well and felt pretty good. Felt I was spiking my gaffles with one small 30s miss at no3 but feeling really confident. Did my own route to no5 but got to the control with the same group I left no4 so no gain/loss but saved a tough climb.
At no6 Oskar Daniels took the lead and the groups pace lifted, I stayed comfortable and let there lamps light up the terrain and features I had already planed to use and carried on spiking controls though the gaffles.
Doug caught me up at the bottom of the really steep rocky hill to no12, I felt like I was try to climb up step ladders and Doug the half man half goat jump up it. But I wasn't the only one struggling to follow him here, he left a few out of breath finns with me. (Doug smashed this leg and was really impressive, good lad)
The group got a gap on me into this control (12) because I lost some confidence mid leg and wanted to be correct. Then this group (now a big group) was too far right to no13 so I got there with the front few.
To the next control (14) I picked what I felt was a safe and good route so felt confident, I noticed a lot of people eye balling each other here and I thought "Josh beech you have been the safest technical orienteer in this group do what you feel is right" and so far everything I did has kept me in the group even if I was not with them 100% and they seemed to run faster physically than me. So I did my own route again but as I came to the circle I saw the tail end of the group leaving it and never quite got back to this group.
Somewhere over the next controls I swapped to from being quite aggressive to being a bit too passive. The speed seemed to slow down (maybe now I was totally alone?) and remembered hearing "it's really tricky in the end" made me happy to slow down a bit too much.
I remember looking at the rest of the course at one point around here and think "good pretty much heading back now ... but I'm loving this not sure I want it to be over"
I started to find some aggression agian and then bang ... it went black. My lamp stopped working, no panic just turned the reserve on. Turned out the reserve was pretty shite, couldn't make out the floor but could see my compass so just held my compass up until I got to a small cliff and at the bottom was a control, checked the code and it was mine (compass kid strikes again) haha. It felt pretty dicey down to the field then into the finish. The last field before the last control wasn't fun, I could see the ground better in the open but couldn't work out what was rock and what was mud so was strange to put my foot down on something I thought was hard and it was wet mud or the opposite. Haha
The next few hours was great sat up chatting and laughing with the team. Great team spirit. I just couldn't be arsed going to bed because I felt I might missed something funny.
I'm really happy and proud of the boys though the night!! Nearly everyone did there job and nothing special which made it special.
Unfortunately there was some problems in the day that cost us what we hoped for. But it was no ones fault!
We all need to learn. The club/managers/selection team need to learn change and improve. The boys as a team/unit need to learn change and improve. And the individual/runner needs to learn change and improve!!
Jukola will be fun!!!
.
Map
http://www.stockholmcitycup.se/doma/show_map.php?u...
Willy ran first and did ok. I guess he is disappointed but well inside the top 100 and with Regborn smashing it and effectively making a joke out of the results from first leg this was good enough. Relay running is about no one person trying too hard or trying to be special. I felt confident we was still in with a chance of a good team result.
Waiting at the map change I noticed a lot of good lads coming back down and a some of older/solid orienteers come in high up, comentry also talking a lot about mistakes so I realized this was even more technical than expected. That cheered me up even more.
Set off and orinteered pretty well and felt pretty good. Felt I was spiking my gaffles with one small 30s miss at no3 but feeling really confident. Did my own route to no5 but got to the control with the same group I left no4 so no gain/loss but saved a tough climb.
At no6 Oskar Daniels took the lead and the groups pace lifted, I stayed comfortable and let there lamps light up the terrain and features I had already planed to use and carried on spiking controls though the gaffles.
Doug caught me up at the bottom of the really steep rocky hill to no12, I felt like I was try to climb up step ladders and Doug the half man half goat jump up it. But I wasn't the only one struggling to follow him here, he left a few out of breath finns with me. (Doug smashed this leg and was really impressive, good lad)
The group got a gap on me into this control (12) because I lost some confidence mid leg and wanted to be correct. Then this group (now a big group) was too far right to no13 so I got there with the front few.
To the next control (14) I picked what I felt was a safe and good route so felt confident, I noticed a lot of people eye balling each other here and I thought "Josh beech you have been the safest technical orienteer in this group do what you feel is right" and so far everything I did has kept me in the group even if I was not with them 100% and they seemed to run faster physically than me. So I did my own route again but as I came to the circle I saw the tail end of the group leaving it and never quite got back to this group.
Somewhere over the next controls I swapped to from being quite aggressive to being a bit too passive. The speed seemed to slow down (maybe now I was totally alone?) and remembered hearing "it's really tricky in the end" made me happy to slow down a bit too much.
I remember looking at the rest of the course at one point around here and think "good pretty much heading back now ... but I'm loving this not sure I want it to be over"
I started to find some aggression agian and then bang ... it went black. My lamp stopped working, no panic just turned the reserve on. Turned out the reserve was pretty shite, couldn't make out the floor but could see my compass so just held my compass up until I got to a small cliff and at the bottom was a control, checked the code and it was mine (compass kid strikes again) haha. It felt pretty dicey down to the field then into the finish. The last field before the last control wasn't fun, I could see the ground better in the open but couldn't work out what was rock and what was mud so was strange to put my foot down on something I thought was hard and it was wet mud or the opposite. Haha
The next few hours was great sat up chatting and laughing with the team. Great team spirit. I just couldn't be arsed going to bed because I felt I might missed something funny.
I'm really happy and proud of the boys though the night!! Nearly everyone did there job and nothing special which made it special.
Unfortunately there was some problems in the day that cost us what we hoped for. But it was no ones fault!
We all need to learn. The club/managers/selection team need to learn change and improve. The boys as a team/unit need to learn change and improve. And the individual/runner needs to learn change and improve!!
Jukola will be fun!!!
.
Map
http://www.stockholmcitycup.se/doma/show_map.php?u...
Friday Apr 28, 2017 #
Note
Woke up with sore/sharp throat and feeling tired.
Didn't tell anyone.
Want to run 10MILA.
Didn't tell anyone.
Want to run 10MILA.
Thursday Apr 27, 2017 #
11 AM
Run -- Road/Grass 18:30 [2]
Set off but wasn't feeling it so went to the shop to pick up lunch instead
6 PM
Run -- Road/Grass 31:00 [2]
Wednesday Apr 26, 2017 #
11 AM
Run -- Road/Grass 1:08:30 [3]
Urban tribes coaching
6 PM
Run -- Trail 31:00 [2]
With louise by the lake.
Feeling better than earlier
Feeling better than earlier
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017 #
7 AM
Run -- Road/Grass 32:00 [2]
From train to school 20mins + wu with class indoors
6 PM
Run -- Road/Grass 11:00 [2]
Orienteering 48:00 [3]
Concentrate wasn't great
Monday Apr 24, 2017 #
Run -- Trail 33:20 [2]
with cat in shite weather when I got home after a long day sat in oslo airport