Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: JK 2008
 

Short warm-up before the race.

JK Sprint, University of Surrey
23/107

Um, so I ended up off the map, and had this girl laugh out her dorm window at me, because I was clearly lost. Great... Other than that 2 minute mistake (just didn't pay attention in the cirlce, and ran by the control), things were pretty ok. Lost contact with the map at one other point (to 6), but nothing too awful came because of it.

W20E, W21E - Splits

Day o' rest before the 10 days of orienteering or so... Wowzer. So psyched! JK, then finally get to see what this Swedish terrain business is all about, wahoo!

Easy-peasy morning jog. Found some new paths behind Headington Hill Park, pretty psyched about that! Body not too tired from yesterday's intervals, feel nice and recovered going into the week of orienteering...

Slightly wimpy, but got some abs, one back exercises, and the infernal press ups in at least!

Shotover Run. Went midday- meant to go first thing in the morning, but woke up to housemates alarm at 6:50, and was way annoyed. So ate breakfast, worked from home for 3 hours, then up to Shotover land.

Farlek-hills on shotover, last session in awhile considering all the races coming up! Felt good and powerful up the hills, well, until near the end at least. Shotover is great for this workout. I feel like I'm getting stronger on hills, South Parks wasn't really doing the job...

Pre-circuits run, including up to Headington (first traffic light) from Marston twice. So like getting the hill in.

45 min in sqaush courts, 6 min outside before anyone else showed up... figured I'd make the most of my time and stay warm!

The hip issue seems to be pretty resolved, although it's now weaker than the other side for sure- need to strengthen it specifically.

Back to lab after circuits.

BUSA Relays, Beeley Woods

Wahoo! We got 3rd!!

I was real excited to have a first leg, try to run quickly, and mess up less than yesterday. Then lost ~2 min on the first control, so frustrating!!!! Just ran past it, because I saw what I thought was my pit, but didn't see a control at it, so kept running to the flag at another gaffle, then ran to the 3rd gaffles flag before finally mine... arg.

Basically, I kept being a total dimbat until I flipped the map over. I kept catching people after my mistakes since I was running fast, but I was convinced I was way far back, and felt so guilty for not having a good run for Anne and Helen!

Other dimbat moves:
-Running way past 5, error: using a telephone line crossing as an attackpoint, then not noticing it
-Mistaking the path and telephone line ride at 6
-Running straight past 10, error: distance judgment totally wrong

The whole second half went really smoothly though, and to my complete surprise, I was 2nd in on the leg, after Jenny Johnson, about 5 min back. So not so bad in the end.

Warm down. There really wasn't a good place to do this...

Event: BUSA
 

BUSA Individual, Stanton Moor

Some stupid and substantial mistakes, but ok generally I guess, as I ended up in 7th. Lost about 4.5 minutes in mistakes by the 6th control, but was much better after that, besides a few smaller silly things.

Mistakes to attempt to learn from:
Annoyed at 1, as should have just headed east from the cairn, and didn't for some reason. Lost 1min.
5- Decided I wanted to go back onto the moor after 4, which was the wrong direction altogether (180 degrees). Oops. Then totally goofed closer to the control as well. Started off on the wrong hill, then was in the valley looking for it, when all the time it was sitting on the eastern hill. Bah.
6- Path mistake, didn't go through the gate to start.

Had the fastest spit for the next-to-last control, when I ran real hard because I knew it was the end. That's nice.

Warm down- back from finish, and a bit around fields with Becky.