Saturday Apr 19 |
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| Event: British Long Champs
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 | Orienteering race 1:24:42 [5] **** 7.4 km (11:27 / km) +185m 10:10 / km | |
| spiked:15/25c shoes: VJ Integrater |
| BOC Orienteering Heaven in Culbin - fantastic! Brilliant course - it was a tough one. Made mistakes at 10 of the controls and lost around 11 minutes in total. This is pretty much unheard of for me and I can only put this down to a combination of a few simple things. Now that I'm running faster I'll have to get my navigation up to speed - an imbalance perhaps? I was also distracted by others - Beccy caught me up twice as did lots of fast but often lost W20E's. Also, I wasn't used to using the Emit brikke and every time I had to turn round the kite to fit the brikke into the control I was disorientated and sure I lost time on extremely poor control flow - although now I have the solution thanks to Rosco (can't believe I hadn't worked that out). Overall I was disappointed with my performance but was pleased with my position - much better than I had predicted. Can't wait to run at Culbin again. |
| Run warm up/down 10:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrater |
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| Stretching 5:00 [1] | |
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Wednesday Apr 16 |
| Run warm up/down 9:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw |
| Warm up dash to the start of the training. Getting to Tentsmuir was a bit of a struggle - probably wasn't meant to have gone in the first place, didn't make it home easily either...
1. Left work at 4.07 and got home at 5.15 having sat in a traffic jam due to the M8 closure/accident (usual journey plus pick up 40 mins).
2. Left home at 5.30 and attempted to navigate using a Multimap map showing the location (using the grid reference), but I failed to ask how to get from the main road to the tracks shown on the map... so I went on a magical mystery tour...
3. Finally arrived at 7.10 and ran as fast as I could to the meeting point in the forest just in time to collect some controls, held the collected controls in my left hand with my compass and my bearing sent me off at 90 degrees wrong...
4. The 1st restaurant (in Dundee) stopped serving when we arrived at 8.30, had to find another - they took ages to serve so we didn't eat until 10.
5. I agreed to give Jamie a lift and as we were too busy chatting, I headed off towards Aberdeen, (Gary phoned to point this out - thanks) after we had turned at the next rab.
6. Dropped Jamie off at Stirling services and noticed that the slip road back onto the M9 was closed for re-surfacing - diversion via J10 Stirling!
A bad day? I'd say so!
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| Orienteering 23:00 [3] **** | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw |
| Control collecting - good practise for BOC. Good to be in similar terrain. |
| Run warm up/down 11:00 [3] | |
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| Roller coaster warm down through gorgeous sand dune forest - sometimes little bits of lovely make up for the bad days... |
| Pilates 1:00:00 [1] | |
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Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Gardening (Strength Training) 45:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Cut the grass until the widget came off the mower and left a 3m2 patch uncut. Raked up leaves and some moss came with it. Must have been some good in this activity as the muscles in my sides were sore the next day. |
Sunday Apr 13 |
| Run 1:45:31 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run with Claire and Stewie his "clown" bike around Grizedale Forest. Some paths were too rough for the bike so we took turns to push or carry the bike - good training for carrying packs on the LAMM I suppose. Stewie did really well to keep up and Claire was great on the hills - training for hours on the fells every week is a very good thing. |
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| C • Great training! 2 |
| Stretching 5:00 [1] | |
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