Training Log Archive: Quirkey

Not much roped climbing tonight.
4+ route to warm up.
5+ route pretending to have shorter arms (to see what techniques my partner might use)
Another 5+ route pretending to be less flexible in legs (further realism about techniques my partner might use ...tiring)

Partner extremely frustrated at lack of progress in climbing skill/ability.
Also expressed concern that difference in abilities is stunting my progress.

Retreated to spend remainder of the time in the bouldering room trying to 'teach' -break falling/ safe jumping off bouldering wall/ refresh on use of pushers and a few other techniques.

Event: SOL 5
 

SOL at Anagach
Another fantastic area for O.

Again, deliberately trying to keep the legs slowed to give the brain a chance. Overall improvement on the errors front compared to yesterday.
Wee wobbles in the circle on 2 and 3. In fact went for the 'navigation' option over the track option in a few cases where i would not have otherwise. i.e. treating race as training

Swung to the right off my bearing yet again (twice yesterday) on 12 but realised when i hit open / wet my feet.

Lost map contact and ran too far on 14 (tried to go round the marsh that others seem to have been able to just leg-it accross) but again relocated to 'full sure' attack second time around.

Kite and t-bar almost invisible cos' they were lying flat on the ground at 15 (which i put upright again) Considering 14, it was a good thing i was 1000% sure i was in the right spot.

Mental tiredness near the end had me in the circle for no 6 before registering '6' vs '18' that i was actually after. ALways new exactly where i was, just the numptyness factor kicking in.

Switched the legs on for the last leg, and suspect i might have got my first 'fastest' leg in ages (yeah yeah, easy leg, others tired etc i know)

Interestingly: closer time-wise to the winner today than yesterday by more than a minute.

5 before O race and 10 after.

Course 12 - Splits

Since i have really orienteered properly in months i decided to treat the whole weekend more as training than racing, so deliberately ran slower in order to make the most of 'skills' practice.

Blue course at Lossie
I really love O'ing (and running generally) in areas like this.

After everything being pretty much bang on where i expected fort he first five controls, i must have relaxed so number 6 put me back in my place. Clean as a whistle to 7 & 8 but then off on my bearing to 9. Relatively error free again all the way to 19.

Could see 11 from miles away so thought it was one those deliberate obvious trick controls. May have realised sooner had i generalised the contours rather than picking out smaller detail as i went.

15 was accurate but i probably ran further than needed and chosen attack angle made the target v narrow. Also, not an error as such but straight was not so great accross the open to 16. Path would have saved time.

The first attempt at last control (20) was as if the 'sat-nav' had suddenly been switched off in my head. Oh what a mess. Eventually managed a re-location and then was surprised to make a very confident approach second time around.

OA: Major errors on 3 controls, and could have made wee technical improvements to 3 more.

Estimates on time loss:
6: 1.5 - 2mins
9: 1 - 1.5mins
11: 30 secs
16. 1min
20: 5 - 6 mins

The results have me in 4th of 18 despite the go-slow and errors.

Most enjoyable Orienteering in ages!

5 either side of O

Blue Coures - Splits

5 ew to/from gym

@Glenoggle

Mostly basics but trying to hit the 50 reps mark on most exercises
Not reverse curl though .... they hurt lots (did 25 there)
Short time on plank and a few variants

BBQ at the house of someone from work in the afternoon, so climbing i originally had in mind was out the window, again.
Not a bad bbq though. Mood picked up when directors left.
Not been an easy week for them either.

Really glad to get out of the doom and gloom of the office again this evening.

Interlopers Terrain Run from Castlelaw range.
With Andy, Les, Ken D, and Pat Bartlett
Passed various bits that i recognized but wouldn't have been able to place relative to each other before. Was good to have a chat and run at comfortable pace together again this week. Apart from getting 'mucked' when crossing very wet bog i quite enjoyed the terrain. Starting to get hungry by the end so beginning to feel slightly tired, so was glad it wasn't any longer.

Carpark full of wanna be soldier kids when we got back.

If we can keep these up over the winter it will do our fitness levels the world of good.

5 mins after run
10 more at home
Upper back maybe the worst bit, probably from too much sitting (working) in the last week.

Martin is feeling shite!
10 of the 25 people in my office just got the 'bump'
I say we all vote 'no' to the 'economic downturn'
Boooo!

Work to holyrood park, incl reci for 'pacing' exercise

Very gentle jog around hunters bog etc re-running a course from last years training plus pacing practice thrown in. Lost count a few times whilst talking or occasionally accompanying a certain someone who forgot their torch!
Felt good to get back doing this. Decent turn out of smiling faces too!

No training.
Late getting out of work. Climbing partner unable to go.
Lots of 'stuff' to do .... could have done with the exercise to de-stress