Sunday Sep 14 |
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| Driving back via home for curry.
Sister managed to spend 1 hour getting lost in Ranmoor instead of going home. slick.
Cracking week, loved it, just need to get running speed going again now and concentrate more when reading maps.
Finished on a high - JT tagged me into the champs food race as he couldn't face his plum tomatos. I ate so quick that Hartman only beat me with his Tuna as he started way before (Having been tagged in by Andy) - the scenes were reminicent of Ragu-man last year... |
Saturday Sep 13 |
| Orienteering (Anagach) 35:00 [1] 3 km (11:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Line Course. just walked it, prob. took longer, but meh. |
| Orienteering race (Tour Champs!) 35:00 [3] *** 3 km (11:40 / km) | |
| spiked:3/10c shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Yeah... bit of a cock-up fest going on here!
Missed 1, 120degree error to 2 (don't ask!), only saw 4 because Browny was stood at it, trogged across the swamp to 7 where Dave was collecting the control. Then I actually pulled my finger out and did some running :p |
| Swimming 30:00 [1] | |
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| fannying about in pool. |
Friday Sep 12 |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Warm up and down, and also staging publicity shots for ShUOC! |
| Orienteering (Roseisle) 1:38:00 [3] 7.6 km (12:54 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| ooo, loverly!.
head-head race, everyone having different courses - though mine was very similar to Lucy's. Still not feeling too great, though mostly recovered from illness/pizza the previous day, so didn't push at all.
Found the centre of the frst butterfly despite Dave hanging it int he wrong place (tut!), and apart from one control in dense new spruce growth I couldn't be arsed with, and one I decided to skip as my relocating wasn't working, Found the rest OK (including another site with no kite in view... knew I was right though!)
Was slow, but much enjoyable. |
Thursday Sep 11 |
| Biking ("Rest Day" haha) 2:11:00 [3] 26.2 mi (4:59 / mi) +20m 3:06 / km | |
| shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike |
| Didn't fancy Contour-only on Inshriac (as I'm sane!) so me and faz went on a nice bikeride. Did part of national cycle route 7 - a figure8 with Aviemore at the bottom, Carrbridge at top and Boat of Garten in the middle. Some loverly tracks! Avie->Boat was a nice rolling off road trip, Boat->Carr was a nice quick road. Carr-> Boat was an inclined off-road track, (but hit 30 on the road at the end... and 27 none-handed on a downhil bit of track!), and Boat->Avie was a slow road.
Very nice, but I'd managed to get ill on the way back from Achlean. Felt better that yesterday afternoon, but still not good.
to think that this was marathon distance at the rate the elites run them... and we were on bikes and had rests! (not timed) Insane, I can't even think of running 500m that fast! |
| Swimming 30:00 [1] | |
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| fannying about in the pool, and a bit of aquayogging as well |
| Swimming 30:00 [1] | |
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| Same as before after bike ride, but also including a bit of waterpolovolleyball. |
Wednesday Sep 10 |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
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| Orienteering (Aclean) 45:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Managed to get lost twice on the way... so wasn't anticipating a good day. It wasn't. There were rides and extraction lines everywhere but on the map - which lead to me not finnding 1 or 5. Fannyed about on 2 for a while, but 3 and 4 were good at least! Knee started hurting, so once I hadn't found 5 I decided to head home. |
Tuesday Sep 9 |
| Orienteering (Alvie!) 1:15:00 [4] *** 6.5 km (11:32 / km) +340m 9:09 / km | |
| spiked:9/10c shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Loverly course on Alvie. Made a small mistake at 1 - was looking on the wrong lump for about 30 seconds, but after that was good through the rest - bit iffy at 4 but found it easy after a slight hesitation. Line Course from 7-8 took a lot of time, but I managed to stick with Lucy (didn't follow her mind!) then the long slog from the gate to 8 was taken slowly. Slowed down from 8-finish apart from downhill on the heather, but still very pleased with the day :) |
| Running (HASH) 45:00 [2] 6 km (7:30 / km) +200m 6:26 / km | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Hash organised by captain. Good fun, but I was a bit knackered so took it easy. |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
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Monday Sep 8 |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] 2.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Warm up while some controls were hung, thenrunning back along the road from my 2nd last control as was blergh after fannying about |
| Orienteering (Loch Vaa) 45:00 [3] 3.7 km (12:10 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| ~5km course around Loch Vaa. Hit control 1 well, but then convinced myself that it wasn't number one, but I reassured myself by finding it from a different direction... Found 2 controls near 3, then eventually 3, then cocked it up royally on 4 and 5. Relocated (courtesy of Rach) near 6, so then did 6-7-5-4-8-9-10 fairly well before heading home - missing the last control and long leg due to too much faffing. |
| Cocking about 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| penising around controls 4+5... or more like near 6, but whilst looking for 3+4 |
| Orienteering 10:00 [3] 1 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 330 'O' |
| Collecting a few controls in running against Fazza. Once again, navigation let me down, but at least I ended up in the right place without spending ages faffing! |
| Biking 1:22:00 [2] 16.4 mi (4:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike |
| Fancied a pootle ont bikes so Danger tagged along on Faz's. Past Inshriac and Feshibridge before heading back up the B-road into Aviemore. Pretty slow as was pooped. Dave wasn't... |