Sunday Mar 23 |
 | Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 0.6 km (16:40 / km) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
| Run to start in melting snow - got some nice snowey pictures when I went down earlier though. |
| Orienteering race (JK Day 3 - Ashdown Forest) 1:08:59 [4] *** 6.6 km (10:27 / km) +270m 8:41 / km | |
| spiked:15/15c shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
| It had stopped snowing by the time I started, and I warmed up pretty quickly on the way to number 1. Overshot it by a bit, but as all the flags were fairly easy to spot it didn't matter too much. Was running and navigating well (the change in scale from the day before once again took a bit of getting used to) until a small faff on 10 lost me a minute, then a massive error on 11 -seeing a control I went to it. It wasn't mine, but I re-positioned myself on the map 50yrds further east than I actually was, resulting in my running 300m or so into out-of-bound and back when I was virtually stood on top of my control. D'oh! Lost me a good 6 minutes or so! Regrouped for the last 3 controls, but the run-in was bloody slippy and knackering!
Without the major faff I would have been bloody close to Faz, and made the top 5 on the M20 short overall! |
Saturday Mar 22 |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.8 km (8:20 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
| jog/walk to mid start |
| Orienteering race (JK Day 2 - Leith Hill) 1:15:05 [4] *** 6.4 km (11:44 / km) +180m 10:17 / km | |
| spiked:18/18c shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
| probably only my second wooded O event, so was fairly rusty when it came to the technical aspects. Felt I was running well, and some navigation was OK, but 4 minutes on control one sort of set the trend - technically, I got to the control circle, then ran like a headless chicken in any direction, with seldom thought about where the control may have been! No massive errors, but muchos little ones! Some iffy route choice as well. The size of the 'little' paths didn't really help matters either, but no 10+ minute legs, and a strong 51sec finish as I was feeling good :D
Liked the area, but took a bit of time getting used to the scale of the map after the previous day. |
Friday Mar 21 |
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| Event: JK 2008
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| Streching warm up/down 5:00 [1] | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
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| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
| Pootling around the assembly field before/after run, stopping off at spectator control every now and then for banter |
| Orienteering race (JK Sprint Course10 (open)) 21:43 [4] *** 2.6 km (8:21 / km) +60m 7:29 / km | |
| spiked:19/19c shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT |
| University of Surrey, Guilford.
Good start to the weekend, beating faz :D
Pretty clean run, save a fairley major mistake on the way to control 1, following slightly past the control on 15, and the same error everyone seemed to make on number 16 - what with map and control descriptions seemingly contradicting eac other. Control descriptions were right. poo!
Good day though - glad we just missed the hail. |
Tuesday Mar 18 |
| Streching warm up/down 5:00 [1] | |
| slept:8.0 |
| Still feel very stiff :-( |
Monday Mar 17 |
| Note | |
| slept:9.5 (rest day) |
| Absolutly shattered after the weekend, so a day of lying around at home and waching scrubs. Felt a bit tight, so went for a walk around town. God it's a dump! |