Training Log Archive: fluceluceIn the 7 days ending Apr 19, 2009:
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Sunday Apr 19, 2009 #
Mountain Biking race (Iroc race 6) 4:30:52 [5] 50.0 km (11.1 kph)
shoes: Inov8 roclite 282
Iroc race 6 - mtb enduro - distance = estimate
lap one was a section of road followed by a long climb up the hill on track then a drop through some of the old quarry - climb up again and then fast descent!
lap two was a section of road that climbed up before meeting a track then some undulating off road followed by a climb to the 'wall of death' (well fun to ride down) then around the track to the forest single track section!
Lap one probably suited me best but the climb up the track was tough!
The climb on lap 2 suited me well and I overtook people on this easily (despite heavy bike) but the single track I wasn't amazing at...
The hardest bit for me was the muddy track into the spectator control at the end and start of each lap!
1st lap was slow but then had a good couple of laps once I knew the full route (2nd loop was same as night tt)
4th loop started to feel a bit nackered and the 5th was a struggle but was worth it in the end! Most female mtbers managed 6 so theres something to aim at!
8th woman
lap one was a section of road followed by a long climb up the hill on track then a drop through some of the old quarry - climb up again and then fast descent!
lap two was a section of road that climbed up before meeting a track then some undulating off road followed by a climb to the 'wall of death' (well fun to ride down) then around the track to the forest single track section!
Lap one probably suited me best but the climb up the track was tough!
The climb on lap 2 suited me well and I overtook people on this easily (despite heavy bike) but the single track I wasn't amazing at...
The hardest bit for me was the muddy track into the spectator control at the end and start of each lap!
1st lap was slow but then had a good couple of laps once I knew the full route (2nd loop was same as night tt)
4th loop started to feel a bit nackered and the 5th was a struggle but was worth it in the end! Most female mtbers managed 6 so theres something to aim at!
8th woman
Note
Was an awesome 1st adventure race - came 1st U23 female (3rd U23) we were 2nd Mix team and 5th female outright - 59th out of the whole field :-)
Think this was actually more difficult than any MM I've done!
Think this was actually more difficult than any MM I've done!
Saturday Apr 18, 2009 #
Running race (Iroc race 1) 1:35:59 [5] 14.0 km (6:51 / km) +620m 5:37 / km
ahr:171 max:180 shoes: Inov8 roclite 282
1st Iroc race - set off and immediately realised I needed the loo - not ideal but raced pretty much how I wanted to, not full pelt but fairly fastish...
The course set off up a steap hill with a bit of a bottleneck at the top then off across the fell - good and tussocky - a bit of flat track running followed by a good descent off road again!
8th woman
The course set off up a steap hill with a bit of a bottleneck at the top then off across the fell - good and tussocky - a bit of flat track running followed by a good descent off road again!
8th woman
orienteering race (Iroc race 2) 1:35:20 [5] 10.5 km (9:05 / km) +400m 7:38 / km
ahr:169 max:177 shoes: Inov8 mudclaw 270
Iroc 2nd race - Orienteering was very straight forward - but was the hottest time of day! Very hilly course - basically another fell race but with added nav (obviously distance is straight line so could quite easily compare to the mornings race)
comprised of 4 loops each time running through the event centre after a loop. The order I did them was 1) Very hilly longest loop 2)short flat loop 3)long flat loop 4)Hilly loop sligtly shorter than the 1st
Manged the 1st 3 loops almost ok (wandered across the river when I didn't need to because I was so hot and not concentrating at the end of 3rd loop) then was so hot on the last loop I stuggled to keep moving well - still managed to get round it ok so not too shabby a time...
3rd woman
comprised of 4 loops each time running through the event centre after a loop. The order I did them was 1) Very hilly longest loop 2)short flat loop 3)long flat loop 4)Hilly loop sligtly shorter than the 1st
Manged the 1st 3 loops almost ok (wandered across the river when I didn't need to because I was so hot and not concentrating at the end of 3rd loop) then was so hot on the last loop I stuggled to keep moving well - still managed to get round it ok so not too shabby a time...
3rd woman
orienteering race (Iroc race 3) 55:24 [5] 6.5 km (8:31 / km)
ahr:160 max:175 shoes: Inov8 roclite 282
Iroc race 3 - night score event - started off fairly light so I headed to the forest first - nav was more difficult than the other course so meant I got a good position - 40th overall.
This was even though I headed back a bit early missing 3 20 pointers I could easily have got - ah well was worth getting back within time! Running felt pretty good on this event! some good hill in it again but not as much as the other 2 events
3rd woman
This was even though I headed back a bit early missing 3 20 pointers I could easily have got - ah well was worth getting back within time! Running felt pretty good on this event! some good hill in it again but not as much as the other 2 events
3rd woman
Mountain Biking race (Iroc race 4) 45:35 [5] 10.0 km (13.2 kph)
ahr:149 max:163 shoes: Inov8 mudclaw 270
Iroc race 4 -MTB TT - not sure how far it was exactly - waiting to see if it comes out with results
Myo XP worked well as a bike light!
Did ok for the 1st time I'd striaght out raced a bike - was a lot further down than in the running races though!
Not suprising as I had the heaviest bike by some way!
9th woman
Myo XP worked well as a bike light!
Did ok for the 1st time I'd striaght out raced a bike - was a lot further down than in the running races though!
Not suprising as I had the heaviest bike by some way!
9th woman
Running race (Iroc race 5) 1:15:49 [5] 7.5 km (10:07 / km)
ahr:155 max:167 shoes: Inov8 mudclaw 270
Iroc race 5 - night fell race - Ran ok on the first loop which was part of the mornings fell race - ran through the spectator control well but then struggled up the last climb - and bonked at the top - tried to get running but felt sick when I tried. Managed to get a jog going through the forest to the end. Think a lot of people found this one hard as beat some who had beaten me earlier - then again some beat me who hadn't before...
8th woman
8th woman
Friday Apr 17, 2009 #
Note
(rest day)
4 days rest, now off to Iroc!
Monday Apr 13, 2009 #
orienteering race 25:33 [5] 2.9 km (8:49 / km) +60m 7:59 / km
shoes: Inov8 roclite 282
JK relays - womens short shuoc 1st leg - messed around at 1 and 2 then spent the rest of the course catching every1 else up -used every bit of running i had left in me! came in just behind roberta who was just behind jo halliday who was 3rd- can't tell where I actually came or real time as map handing out cock up meant that although rach was waiting for a map for more than 15mins she didnt make it to change over in time and that cost us a lot! my run in split was 1:50 in the end..as rach did 1:03 we can assume that we lost at least 50seconds...
came 4th however 7secs off 3rd, 24secs off second! what a faff!
came 4th however 7secs off 3rd, 24secs off second! what a faff!