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Saturday Jun 1, 2019 #
11 AM
Running 3:55:24 28.28 km (8:19 / km) +1833m 6:17 / km
ahr:146 max:176 shoes: Inov8 210 July 2018
Trotternish Ridge Race
Epic day out with the whole ridge in thick clag with 10-20m visibility. Lots of nav required. Managed to do most of it okay and take advantage of all the troubles others were having up there, no real idea where I was in the race (maybe about 25th early on) so was surprised and pleased to find myself 8th at the finish :)
Only 52 starters (race limit/entries was 75) and 44 finishers. Jase 15th 4hrs17, Gary 21st 4hrs29.
Results https://www.webscorer.com/race?pid=1&raceid=18...
Epic day out with the whole ridge in thick clag with 10-20m visibility. Lots of nav required. Managed to do most of it okay and take advantage of all the troubles others were having up there, no real idea where I was in the race (maybe about 25th early on) so was surprised and pleased to find myself 8th at the finish :)
Only 52 starters (race limit/entries was 75) and 44 finishers. Jase 15th 4hrs17, Gary 21st 4hrs29.
Results https://www.webscorer.com/race?pid=1&raceid=18...
Friday May 31, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
Travel to Portree. Thought about doing a jog on arrival but travel took forever so only arrived just in time for dinner.
Thursday May 30, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
Didn't mean to do so much yesterday, rest day.
Wednesday May 29, 2019 #
7 PM
Orienteering 1:04:46 8.31 km (7:48 / km) +147m 7:10 / km
ahr:111 max:144 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
STAG evening event at Cumbernauld Community Park (with the angel statue that overlooks the M80).
Didn’t even know until a few days ago that this area was mapped, and thought it looked quite unpromising and likely to have lots of summer vegetation.
After a 25min delay on the M80 in the pouring rain, my enthusiasm was even lower when I arrived to find that the long course had taken Paul Hammond an hour...so much for my idea of a gentle 35-40min run round to recover from yesterday...
So all in all it was a very pleasant surprise to find a decently challenging course in a varied area with plenty of runnable forest and virtually all the semi-open perfectly runnable with little bad undergrowth. Some bits of contour and rock detail too.
Ran round very steadily with a couple of wobbles (map was 1:5000 reduced to 1:7500 so in dodgy light was hard to read). But most enjoyable and a very surprising new area less than 30mins from Stirling...nice work Terry!
Didn’t even know until a few days ago that this area was mapped, and thought it looked quite unpromising and likely to have lots of summer vegetation.
After a 25min delay on the M80 in the pouring rain, my enthusiasm was even lower when I arrived to find that the long course had taken Paul Hammond an hour...so much for my idea of a gentle 35-40min run round to recover from yesterday...
So all in all it was a very pleasant surprise to find a decently challenging course in a varied area with plenty of runnable forest and virtually all the semi-open perfectly runnable with little bad undergrowth. Some bits of contour and rock detail too.
Ran round very steadily with a couple of wobbles (map was 1:5000 reduced to 1:7500 so in dodgy light was hard to read). But most enjoyable and a very surprising new area less than 30mins from Stirling...nice work Terry!
Tuesday May 28, 2019 #
2 PM
Running 2:22:10 18.59 km (7:39 / km) +795m 6:18 / km
ahr:129 max:157 shoes: Black Inov8 Apr17
Ben Ledi from Callendar, back down via the ridge then Stank Glen, then back to Callendar.
Much better conditions than when I ran up a couple of months ago in the snow and freezing wind, warm and pleasant today plus the cloud was nice and high so the mountain views around me were very clear :)
Last meaningful climb into the legs before Saturday’s fun.
Much better conditions than when I ran up a couple of months ago in the snow and freezing wind, warm and pleasant today plus the cloud was nice and high so the mountain views around me were very clear :)
Last meaningful climb into the legs before Saturday’s fun.
Monday May 27, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
Sunday May 26, 2019 #
11 AM
Running warm up/down 9:16 1.25 km (7:27 / km)
ahr:112 max:123 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
Orienteering 30:10 4.5 km (6:42 / km) +170m 5:38 / km
ahr:114 max:130 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
Scottish Relays, Drumlanrig.
Really fun relay, well planned with decent gaffling and butterflies, and set up nicely for head-to-head running. Pretty much everyone had positive things to say about their experience out there. This was not uniformly the case yesterday...
Last leg on the 8+ Handicap for me, after Steve F then Roger. Except for Men Open, all the relays (so Women Open and all Handicap categories) have the same "C" course as their final leg.
Set off 20secs behind Ben on our other 8+ team (Will-Ross-Ben). A few other Handicap teams already out on last leg, we were maybe 5th and 6th.
Hilly start and found it hard work, managed to close the gap bashing downhilll through unmapped grot to #3 but then got dropped again on the next leg, and made a small mistake heading to the butterflies after the road crossing. Just as I was finishing the butterflies (two small wobbles during them) then I saw Ben on the track heading to the next control, maybe 45secs (?) ahead. Couldn't see him on the road or the climb out of the spectator so thought he was gone, but got a good line to 15 and saw him off the to the left looking unsure. He saw me too....we punched together but he got a slightly better line down the hill through #16 and stayed ahead down to the final control at #17....and all the way along the run-in. 4secs gap at the finish, we were 3rd and 4th team on the handicap.
Consolation prize of fastest course C lap of the day, ahead of all the Women Open runners. And also ahead of Will Gardner who may however just possibly perhaps not have been trying his very hardest on his n/c second run of the day.....
FVO team highlight was a 1-2 on the older Juniors relay, with silver in Men Open, plus bronze in Women Open and Handicap. Must be about time we beat EUOC in the Open relay....
Really fun relay, well planned with decent gaffling and butterflies, and set up nicely for head-to-head running. Pretty much everyone had positive things to say about their experience out there. This was not uniformly the case yesterday...
Last leg on the 8+ Handicap for me, after Steve F then Roger. Except for Men Open, all the relays (so Women Open and all Handicap categories) have the same "C" course as their final leg.
Set off 20secs behind Ben on our other 8+ team (Will-Ross-Ben). A few other Handicap teams already out on last leg, we were maybe 5th and 6th.
Hilly start and found it hard work, managed to close the gap bashing downhilll through unmapped grot to #3 but then got dropped again on the next leg, and made a small mistake heading to the butterflies after the road crossing. Just as I was finishing the butterflies (two small wobbles during them) then I saw Ben on the track heading to the next control, maybe 45secs (?) ahead. Couldn't see him on the road or the climb out of the spectator so thought he was gone, but got a good line to 15 and saw him off the to the left looking unsure. He saw me too....we punched together but he got a slightly better line down the hill through #16 and stayed ahead down to the final control at #17....and all the way along the run-in. 4secs gap at the finish, we were 3rd and 4th team on the handicap.
Consolation prize of fastest course C lap of the day, ahead of all the Women Open runners. And also ahead of Will Gardner who may however just possibly perhaps not have been trying his very hardest on his n/c second run of the day.....
FVO team highlight was a 1-2 on the older Juniors relay, with silver in Men Open, plus bronze in Women Open and Handicap. Must be about time we beat EUOC in the Open relay....