Saturday Aug 11 |
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| Warm up but couldnt be arsed warming down. |
| orienteering 1:13:00 [4] | |
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| Scottish Day 6. Set off across the deep heather to no.1 then realised the paths were much faster so for the rest of the course i stuck to those where possible (probably too much). Navigationally clean apart from no.9 where i missed it by a matter of metres and had to reattack it losing a couple of mins. Legs felt tired for the 1st time all week and i completely ran out of energy about 3 km from the end and slowed considerably therefore losing me time as well. Great area though. Overall it was an ok week with a couple of runs im really pleased with (Day 2 and 4). Just need to work on what i do when the leg isnt going quite how i planned ie relocation type stuff. |
Friday Aug 10 |
| running 20:00 [3] | |
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| orienteering 41:00 [5] | |
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| Scottish day 5. Went very cleanly through the 1st 10 controls although struggled across the open heathery bit between 4-5. Then didnt know where i was going along the indistinct path to 11 and misrelocated at the end of it so when tried to attack the control i was 20 metres off line so missed it and went back and tried again till i found it, losing about 2.30mins. Bloody annoying as was having such a good run and felt like was moving fairly well through the terrain. |
Thursday Aug 9 |
| running 15:00 [3] | |
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| orienteering 1:02:00 [5] | |
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| Scottish Day 4. Having finally got over the shock of having retired on day 3 i was looking foward to racing on such a good area. Had a late start but there was still a number of people starting around me chasing me down. Had a very clean run and felt pretty good physically so pushed it hard. |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| running 10:00 [3] | |
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| orienteering 1:20:00 [4] | |
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| Scottish day 3. I was so looking foward to this and was full of confidence from the previous day and when i spiked the first control i thought i might be onto another good one but then i missed slightly at no.2 and again at no.4 when i found a control on a boulder slightly higher up the hill from mine which i couldnt believe wasnt the correct one. Then had a disaster at no.6 loosing about 20mins and also any belief in my navigational skills whatsoever. Thought id found my attackpoint of the small hill top adjacent to the reenterent the control was in and dropped into the feature only to find no control, hmm i thought, maybe its in the next reenterent. Only it wasnt. Or the next one. Or the next one etc. Had massive problems relocating and when i did i still couldnt find the bloody thing. It was like there was a dave-repelling-force-field around it or something. Eventually when i found it i couldnt face continuing lest i never return from the forest. I'll be back to finish it one day... |
Monday Aug 6 |
| running 30:00 [3] | |
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| Warming up then jogged back to the start to pick up my thermal which i'd left there as i thought it would be cold as i am a wimp. |
| orienteering 36:00 [5] | |
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| Scottish day 2. I usually start fairly cautiously in order to get into the map but about 10secs before the final beep i decided to go off hard and see what happened. Took a slightly longer but safer route to no.1 but got into a great rhythm which i kept thoughout the course and never really made any mistakes. The area suited me as it was intricate rocky type detail with lots of features and i absolutely nailed all the controls including hurdling straight over any fences that were in my way. |