Saturday Oct 13 |
 | Orienteering Race 33:00 [3] 4.7 km (7:01 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 'O' 330 |
| Local Event at new are Bush Estate near Penicuik. First run since a week of feeling rubbish, still coughing a bit but not too much. The area is very fast (not today for me tho) with lots of open fields, some urban parts and some steep nettly brambly wooded sloped round the outside.
The planner was clearly not an urban fan as there were lots of dead legs to avoid the nicest part of the area. Was enjoying it all the same until No 10, a pointless field run, followed by a hurdles section over a bunch of barbed wire fences then a seemingly nice decent through the forest to the control. On the first fence, it bent as I went to bring my trail leg over it and I fell forward bur my leg got caught on the fence and I fell over and ripped my 30 quid lycras and got a long, deepish scatch down my leg. Got to the woods and saw what looked like knee height brambles so I went for it. Got 10m down the hill and fell into a waist height bramble patch, spent minutes getting ripped to shreds in there. (the only way to avoid was a 200m round trip on paths)
The area has potential for sprint races but the planner shouldnt have gone for distance over quality or it would be a really nice wee area. At least I know to avoid that part next time. |
Tuesday Oct 9 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| still feeling bad, had a cough all day, this sucks, lucky to coincide with a planned break tho....... |
Monday Oct 8 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| still felt a bit rubbish, had badminton in PE and was apalling. Might do some night oing on Wed but not pushing at all |