Sunday Mar 16 |
 | orienteering 51:00 [5] | |
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| Oh dear, oh dear. I was a few mins late for Rhys on 1st leg handover as he'd missed out the final loop. This set the tone for the rest of the run. Was good through the 1st loop and nailed everything but at no.11 i arrived at a control which wasnt mine then couldnt locate my control despite it only being 20metres away (which i didnt realise). Lost a couple of mins here, got generally unmotivated and was quite scrappy and puntered round the rest of the course cursing Nails for making it so steep. Enjoyed the course and the area though and it was exciting watching the relay action happen. Afterwards found out i'd misspunched 3 (!) times but im 99% sure i went to all the right controls but i'd borrowed a superslow old SI card which presumably didnt register properly. And then i realised it was a 1:5000 map which explains most of my mistakes. Didnt matter much cos we were non comp in a 2 man team. |
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| C • 250m and steep 6 |
| running 10:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up. Couldnt be bothered warming down, too much stuff going on. |
Saturday Mar 15 |
| orienteering 1:11:00 [5] | |
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| BUSA. Ran smoothly and in control but took a couple of unoptimum route choices, namely 2-3 and aimed off too much 28-29. Got a bit scrappy and hesitant through the butterflies and made a proper 30-40secs mistake 30-31. Was quite pleased when i finished but on reflection i didnt push hard enough and was running too defensively for most of it. Would have liked to have been a few mins quicker and with a bit more grit and determination i reckon it was easily achievable. A good lesson to learn. Big up to Nails for flying round, well impressive. |
| running 30:00 [3] | |
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| 10 min warm up and a longer warm down. |
Thursday Mar 13 |
| orienteering 55:00 [3] | |
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| In a gap between the rain i fitted in some technical training on Harden Moor. Nice area, only run there once before so it was a proper navigational challenge. Lost a small amount of time running past a boulder i would have seen the control on. Pretty good though and felt alot better than yesterday, considered slipping some intervals in but figured it didnt really matter since my trainings been less than optimum recently for various reasons. Looking foward to a holiday now and to just enjoy the races. |
Wednesday Mar 12 |
| running 53:00 [3] | |
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| Started some 1min reps down the bike path but my legs just werent up for it so i made a sensible decision and jacked it after 3. Most unlike me but what with the recent illnesses and the upcoming races i didnt want to risk anything. Think its nothing more than sleep deprivation having been staying up late (past 10pm!) as have been engrossed in a book about Coe and Ovett. Funny how a book about running really fast can make me run slower. |
Tuesday Mar 11 |
| Free weights-core stability 29:00 [2] | |
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| running 30:00 [3] | |
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| Up a hill, back down a hill when i realised how strong the winds were. So basically Leeds Met are useless and didnt send off my BUSA forms. I guess thats what you get when your sports president is a woman. |
Monday Mar 10 |
| running 1:35:00 [3] | |
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| No long run yesterday but feeling a lot better so ran from Ogden on the way home. Up the roman road again, across to Warley reservoir, through the terrain to the Whinnney stones then back past the sailing club, along the wind turbines and freestyled it back across the moor to the roman road. Was raining throughout but for some reason i didnt mind i was loving being out in it. Spent about half the time running through soaking wet Pennine tussocks/bog, hmm lovely. |