Saturday Mar 22 |
 | Orienteering race 1:19:45 [4] **** 6.9 km (11:33 / km) +205m 10:04 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Integrater |
| JK Day 1 Leith Hill. Dumped my clothes with the sun shining and started in hailstones, it was a fffreezing and horrible start to the race. I went slowly and cautiously for the first three controls but probably a bit slow and dithery in retrospect. Once I was in full flow I gained speed and the rest of the controls I hit spot on having decided to take some safe routes. I met the hailstones head on in an open area towards the end, which was painful on my face but dug in and even had a bit left for the run in. Not sure I can forgive those responsible for taking the tent down by the time I got there... but thanks to SYO for letting me use their badly damaged tent to shelter and change in before having to salvage various parts for putting away before it took off in the wind! |
| Run warm up/down 20:00 [3] 1.7 km (11:46 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrater |
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Friday Mar 21 |
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| Event: JK 2008
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| Orienteering race (Sprint) 26:31 [4] ** 2.2 km (12:03 / km) +50m 10:49 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| JK Start/stop/start sprint race in the grounds of The University of Surrey with a 1:3,000 scale map. Hardly picked up much speed between the controls as it was so tricky to navigate between the buildings and under passes! The first two were hard to get into but once I'd got the hang of the scale it was fine, did a few reverses having gone the wrong way but it all added to the fun. |
| Run warm up/down 5:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
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Wednesday Mar 19 |
| Pilates 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Discovered that my hamstrings were mega tight today whilst doing a particular exercise, so bad in fact that the instructor decided to help stretch them out! |
| Run (Terrain/paths) 1:00:05 [4] | |
| shoes: Saucony Omni |
| Dusk and dark run around Sauchie crags. Set off at a lovely pace with Janine and the guys until they stepped up a gear and I was trailing at the rear. Headlights were on after five minutes. The paths weren't too bad at all after a full dry day for a while. The path along the top of the crags was ace - lots of up and down roller coaster bits with wee tricky downhill sections, which I was definitely mincing on (didn't want to injure any more bits before the weekend). Janine was probably well fed up of looping back to get me although she never complained once! The guys caught up on the last 100m, having done an extra bit along the crags, and we finished together in time for dinner. |
Sunday Mar 16 |
| Orienteering race 1:13:21 [3] *** 6 km (12:14 / km) +235m 10:13 / km | |
| spiked:15/16c (sick) shoes: Walsh |
| Felt pretty awful due to my cold, legs felt jellyish and I couldn't regulate my body temperature properly, had to take off my windproof jacket on the way to #2 - stupid faff that was. Missed #2 by a smidgen and did another wee faff around and about before finding it. Slogged uphill to #3 feeling like I wasn't going to make it around the course at all until there was a lovely downhill bit followed by a few interesting legs... then another slog uphill during which I was tempted to have a sit down... the rest of the course was uneventful, managed to use North Berwick Law to run towards on a bearing to find the control - it worked! |
| Run warm up/down 12:00 [2] 1.0 mi (11:59 / mi) +100m 5:41 / km | |
| shoes: Walsh |
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