Training Log Archive: skyhigh

Cawthorne Bramble Fest - Blue - 6.5km 115m
Utterly amazed that SYO used this area for a level B event, and that BO gave it UKOL status. Bramblefest would be an understatement. Leaping over the brambles should have been easy with long legs, but my left glute/piriformis/hamstring wasn't working too well. Scrappy technique to go with the scrappy forest and one significant (and stupid) mistake at the end when ran straight past the penultimate control hiding in a hide (90secs).
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
http://www.syo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#108

WU trying to get my leg to work/WD

British Night Champs at Middleton Park, Leeds
Course 4 - 7.1km 190m climb. British Champion! :-)
Pretty happy with my race - planned and executed all routes safely and hamstring fine until the last couple of controls on downhill tarmac. Just dropped ~30secs on a short leg. Beat all the M55s - not too shoddy!
http://www.splitsbrowser.org.uk/splitsgraph.php?ev...
http://www.aire.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#107

LampO from M&Ds. New format imported from God's Country - 45 min score using street light nos as controls. Excellent practice for planning ahead - both the control itself and the exit route. Also tested the new headtorch a second time, just in time for Saturday. Hamstring definitely not liking trying to run fast on tarmac to make it back for 45 mins.

Steady loop at lunchtime. Up to North Third. Was going to go up to the top of Carron Valley but there was snow on the road! So carried on past North Third, down around Barr Wood, Plean and back through Bannockburn. No surprises; legs not that great after yesterday.

Day 1 wheat free

OHR headlight run. An 'easy week' for the top guys, hard work for me. New £13 head torch is super!

Pairs again - good burn! Kept HR low as sinuses are worse again, no surprise after the lack of sleep at the wkd.

WU/WD