Training Archive: RoscoIn the 7 days ending 2008-02-24:
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Sunday Feb 24 | ||
| Orienteering 3:00:00 [3] *** | |
| shoes: Integrators | ||
| ScotJOS at South Achray. (Have I disqualified myself from the next night race?)
Put out controls, shadowing, relay race (stopped to help Tom find his shoe), collecting in controls (back up the hill). | ||
Saturday Feb 23 | ||
| Event: Scottish Night Championships | ||
| Orienteering 17:00 [3] *** | |
| shoes: Innov8s | ||
| ScotJOS Training at Plean. The Speed course.
Me and my dudes did it as a chasing start with me going off last. Was very surprised by the low visibility terrain so was a bit hesitant to start. When I caught my guys up decided to do a bit of shadowing to see what they were up to. I fear I wouldn't have caught Spongey anyway. | ||
| Orienteering (Control Collecting) 15:00 [2] *** | |
| shoes: Integrators | ||
| Collected in a couple of controls. | ||
| Orienteering race (Night) 57:54 [5] *** 8.3 km (6:59 / km) | |
| 28c shoes: Integrators | ||
| Scottish Night Champs at Kinneil Wood.
Nice fast flat area which in theory should suit me. It didn't. Was pretty tired after partying/coaching and completely messed up 1. It was a depression very near a path. Thought to myself "Take a nice careful bearing from that obvious attack point Rosco". Then as I got there thought "Nah, let's just go for it." What an absolute donkey. Finally got it after taking a nice careful bearing from that obvious attack point. After that was very scrappy and found it very difficult to run in a straight line. 16 was a particular highlight, where I crossed a track running at 90 degrees to the one I thought I was crossing and carried merrily on for quite some time. Good fun anyway. http://www.esoc.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti.c...= | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Integrators | ||
| Good warm up. Didn't bother warming down. | ||
Friday Feb 22 | ||
| Running hills 35:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Asics Running | ||
| Did Thursday's hills session on my tod. At the Back Walk - a more pleasant place for a session but the hill is a bit flatter and shorter. Is this a bad thing?!
Did 60/60/90/120/150/120/90/60/30/60/90/120. Jog back recovery. The first one was a 60 cause I couldn't hear my watch beep in the howling gale. Decided not to do the last 150 as I had partying to be done. Feeling pretty good but bored. | ||
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics Running | ||
| Trotting to/from hoose. | ||
| Ceilidh Dancin 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Trendy Walshes | ||
| Bit of jigging in Glasgow. | ||
Thursday Feb 21 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Was meant to be in Glasgow but didn't even get there due to silly issues with boring things at work. They meant I was unable to make hills too. Well if I really wanted to I maybe could have....but I slipped into old habits and watched the mighty gers earn a glorious draw with Panithanikos then couldn't be bothered going out. Will do them Fri (hopefully...). | ||
| C • PB 3 | ||
Wednesday Feb 20 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Integrators | ||
| trotting up and down | ||
| Orienteering race (night) 36:15 [4] *** 5.4 km (6:43 / km) +260m 5:25 / km | |
| 22c shoes: Integrators | ||
| FVO night race at Dumyat East.
Great area for the nighttime and really enjoyed myself. I love how at 5.30 you can be sitting in your office doing boring things and just 1 hour later you can be up in the hills, testing your wits and legs; racing, adventuring. Awesome. Ewan was making it look very easy at the front and I was doing my best to keep up but slowly and surely he pulled away. Finally by 13 I had to find them myself.... Got a little put off by all the folks on the short course at 16 so ran up the wrong wee hill (just checking) and had a wee pause in the circle at 18 but was fine apart from that. Was lacking, though, in that relaxed controlled flow that proper orienteers have. Will I ever have it? Only if I am rigorous in working on: ensuring I leave the control in exactly the right direction, simplification, and visualisation. But I'm not sure that I have a personality that allows for rigor.... And I still need to be able to run faster through terrain. As Lard said to me last night - I just need to work on my orienteering. Cheeky bugger. | ||
| C • The truth hurts... 2 | ||
| C • 21 controls on the course? 2 | ||
Tuesday Feb 19 | ||
| Running intervals (Terrain) 21:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Innov8s | ||
| Terrain intervals (first time ever) in Hermitage Woods above the uni.
7x90s uphill/30 rest/60 downhill/30 rest Was running late as was in a groove with the paper I was writing at work. (The paper I should have been writing instead of my wee novella....). Therefore only made the last 2 with the posse. Kept my backpack on and just about managed to keep up with JonX. After the others had gone probably didn't try quite as hard for a few of the other 5 (also sans backpack) but got right up to the big re-entrant for the last one. Ankles were feeling a bit dodgy on the downhill (tired after Carnethy). | ||
| C • Showing commitment again! 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Innov8s | ||
| wu an eerie run through the fog from the office.
wd JonX gained brownie points and waited to give me a lift home so just to the car park. Nearly got eaten by a dog. | ||