Training Archive: Jon XIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-22:
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Saturday Mar 22 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:05:23 [5]**** 9.6 km (6:49 / km) +345m 5:46 / km | |
| spiked:16/23c shoes: VJ Falcon | ||
| JK Individual Day 1, Leith Hill.
Running well and no big errors, finished a little bit frustrated with a number of small misses. Looking back probably missed slightly more than I thought. #2 - hesitant on longish leg and distracted by unmapped path, should have just got on with it. (-45s) #4 - attacked using unmapped path even though it seemed too soon, went to wrong control (-1 min) #8 - wiggly route and couldn't work out where in circle control was meant to be, it was a re-entrant but on the path - doh! (-30s) #10,12,13 - not quite in control, slightly off line into and out of circles (-30s total) #14 - in control all the way, got near circle and headed to wrong thicket as attack point (-45s) #15 - came out of 14 telling myself to be careful, could only see one thicket and went to it even thought it was to the left. Control just where expected - not mine! Brief panic and sorted it out (-1min) After that then running v hard, got a good split by going down and up not round to #17. #19 - navigated to pit not depression in circle, briefly confused (-30s) Finished 11th, 8 mins behind James Logue (57:21). Much better than I would have done 3 months ago so pretty pleased, but could have done better....... | ||
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon | ||
| This was all warm-up, remembered too late about warming down and was already changed and warm.
2.8km to the start which helped but got some stretching and strides in too. | ||
Friday Mar 21 | ||
| Event: JK 2008 | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline | ||
| Orienteering race 21:38 [4]**** 2.4 km (9:01 / km) +55m 8:05 / km | |
| spiked:13/19c shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline | ||
| JK Sprint at University of Surrey. Couldn't wait to get running....however it seems I wasn't quite so ready to navigate. Lost contact pretty much straight off the start and lost a minute, did some good legs but lost time at quite a few of them, never really in control.
Finished outside the top 20 but not too fussed, more interested in the other days. | ||
Thursday Mar 20 | ||
| Running 33:20 [3] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline | ||
| Post work jog round the Uni and Hermitage with Rosco, nice to see everywhere in the daylight for the first time in months. | ||
Wednesday Mar 19 | ||
| Running 58:20 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| FVO headtorch run (not long before the light evenings now!).
We were at North Third tonight, was running with Rosco and Lard. Top fun it was too, great twisty undulating paths, especially on the run out to the trigpoint and back along the top of the crags. Can't wait to get out and race in terrain this weekend now! Felt pretty good once warmed up, still a few minor niggles with right hamstring and back of knee, had that for a while though, so hopefully all is under control for the JK. And it was not quite a run that should be logged on AP as an hour. Oh no. Nearly an hour but not quite. Don't let anyone tell you different.... | ||
| C • hahaha 1 | ||
Monday Mar 17 | ||
| Running 34:00 [3] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline | ||
| Just time tonight for a quick jog - seemed like a good idea so I can have the day off again tomorrow! Just round the roads in the village, moonlit night so no torch needed.
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| C • 2 Stone! 3 | ||
| Note | |
| Sept 25th 2007. 40th birthday. Decide to lose 2 stone before the JK.
Mar 17th 2008. 4 days before JK. Mission accomplished! Celebrated with beers and pakora so mission may no longer be accomplished, hmmmm... | ||
Sunday Mar 16 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:03:13 [4]*** 9.4 km (6:44 / km) +320m 5:45 / km | |
| spiked:20/22c shoes: VJ Falcon | ||
| Brown course in Compass Sport Trophy at Pentland Hills North.
Pleased with how it went, felt much better today than for the past week or so and was running well in the terrain. Pushed quite hard but maybe lost focus on doing so a bit for the 10mins between #7 and #9, seem to have lost a bit of time there. Had the fastest splits for #13 and #17, both tussocky uphill legs, surprised by that but maybe it was a bit better trodden by the time I went out. Didn't miss much, just on two short legs - missed #15 left and lost 30secs, then didn't need to do steep climb to #16 and was slightly right at the flag, maybe lost another 20 secs or so. I am sure it helped to be out there when there were other people, there seemed to be a lot of controls shared between courses and visibility was good. As ever I didn't managed to score any CST points for FVO, lots of FVO people at the top of Brown including four ahead of me (Will, Roger, Fraser, Steve N). Not an FVO winner though, Dave Godfree won in 57:34, others under the hour were Murray and Will. Pretty encouraging for the JK, maybe there I can get out of the habit of making mistakes at consecutive controls every race...... | ||
| C • Not an FVO winner 3 | ||
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon | ||
| To the start and then quick jog afterwards, almost strayed into the bit of the ranges where they were firing.... | ||