Training Log Archive: Keith

Cannop ponds score

I was "uncomptitive" I had a good plan, but was all over the shop got them all eventually in under the hour, a few whopping mistakes.
Good recovery session. Glad we eventually bothered going, thanks mark 2 and the dragons. Pete turned up having not run the elite champs and did 49 i think.

Event: BEOC Long Race
 

Long way to start

British elite long champs
Mallerds Pike & New Beechenhurst, FoD

Nearly missed start after underesitmating the time to get there. A bit kerfuffled.
Slow on 1, stopped too soon then remembered it was a 1:15 map. Messed around at 2. Lacked hill strenght going up to 3. ON 4 I went tracks to north, but stupidly Cut in over hill and ballsed it up rather than staying to fence corner, Then lost time on 5, 7 - in control detail. Straight to 8 which was quick but drifted a bit left. 9 went through stone and then ended up way to the right, and just couldn't shake this other guy who was also orienteering pretty badly (Ian webb I think from splitbrowser).

After the map exchange I settled down, and had no medium mistakes, only small ones (17,20, 29) Was conservative on 21 went track to the north and it payed off. Caught tom at 23 (suprised) and hoped he would push me, but he didn't stay with me.

Overall technically shaky at start, but then came right and nailed most of the tricky ones. I guess I made about 4 mins worth of mistakes, mostly in the first section up to 10 (3.5 mins).

Physically felt a bit weak, particuarly on hills - and not as strong as JK. Hills is normally my strength so a bit suprised. Also annoying that i did not manage to run with anyone for any lenght of time (unlike tim & jo, Matt & scott), as i generally went through people in my start block. took on 4 squeezys.

Place 20/43 Gotta be happy with a 20th in British elite long champs. £10 banked from the saunders benevolent fund. would've like to have beaten tim and John, but they were moving quicker than me (good BOK results :), so i couldn't really have improved my placing.

Winner Oli 97.48 so ~+29 %
JK was + 34 % so that's an improvement which suprises me but i'll take that on my longest (distance) course ever.

C • Shake off this other guy 1

FCC middle distance, Mallerds pike, FoD

medium mistake at 4, where the distinct vege boundary on the left never appeared. then the vege boundary on 9 wasn't there, swalloed a bug crossed what i thought was 2 ditches, no distinct vege boundary, it has to be distinct not indistinct. Lost loads of time, through all the toys out of the cot.
Then cruised round, Lost time at 14 too (veg boundary corner), and would've lost more on 18 if it wasn't for the candyman.
Shite, but feel good for tomorrow

Winner Matt speake ~27.30

20 min shakedown jog with a few strides round the park closeby

Tech training Mosely Green
Tennis match
http://www.attackpoint.org/exercisedetail.jsp?exer...
with Mark, managed to run him down a couple of times, I think he was holding back before this weekends duel. Great exercise, easy to plan with no setting out
Then relocation exercise with mark, were effectlivly he ran round in circles through all this shite and got me much more lost than I got him. Not sure of the benefit of this in FoD as i can't recal having to relocate in this kind of stuff for a long time.
Great evening, thanks Tim and Laura!!

Muscles feeling tight so no run, was thinking swim, but throats a bit scratchy, so hope i'm not coming down with anything, so complete rest.