Training Log Archive: W

City Race in Lincoln. Now this was a sweet city race. More of what I'd expect. Tricky controls requiring clever navigation and map reading, epic long legs that spanned the entire map, tiny spinny legs in oddly shaped residential areas, and running through some cool passageways and architecture. I can only wish we'd ever be able to put something like this together in Canada.

Figured out the trap to number 2, but not before kind of heading in that direction. Route on the monster leg was also not necessarily ideal, but I didn't have to crash through some green like other people did. Made some slight mistakes in mis-counting roads. My calves burned like nobody's business wearing F-lite 195s. Great shoes, but sprint shoes. I really wish I had a pair of kinvaras. Its okay, only one weekend before London and then I can get back to more cush.

Oh yeah, and I won, by 20 seconds. I think I should have won by more. Now that I've made a sprint final, I have expectations.

Also, Nopesport (and Attackpoint, for that matter), is really irritating with how much whining people are doing. By the time we'd gotten home someone had already made two different posts making passive aggressive comments moaning about what he thought was mis-leading control description symbols, or the colour of the pavement, or something. When did the orienteering world become so whiny?

Routegadget here: http://www.log.routegadget.co.uk/log/reitti.cgi?ac...

C • fun! 7

Sheffield city race in.... well, yeah. Not the nicest area, kind of a sketchy apartment complex area. Lots of climbing, and lots of ambiguously crossable v uncrossable walls/fences. 'twas difficult to tell sometimes but a quick map stop often helped. Tomorrow Lincoln.

C • apartment complex 2

A - Splits

Stuck to the roads today. Got kind of hot by British standards, almost 25. Heck, I practically broke a sweat.

Went for an out and back jog along the railway again. Tried very hard to jog easily, and accidentally ran home faster than I did out. Whoops. Calves ready to explode with only running in f-lite 230s.

Took the day off in light of paranoia. Will go for a spin tomorrow to assess. Two races this weekend, so I want to still be okay for them, plus London next week.


Also, Fabien's explanation of why he got re-instated in the WOC Sprint Qualification has me absolutely baffled at the jury. Baffled, I tells ya.

Planned to do 10x1 mins with 1 min rest, but got going and the paranoia of getting sick picked up again. A little bit of throatiness made me nervous, so I shortened it down to 6x1. Still, I felt fairly fast. Tried to work on being more relaxed while running hard. I tend to scrunch up a lot in the shoulders when hammering.

Oof, I feel like I'm so close to being sick. Maybe its the weather, or something.

C • Oh no! 2

Went for another run to open up my stomach for dinner. Gotta do that when its something tasty.