Training Log Archive: Mark Two

Scottish Relay's at Balmoral.

Adhoc team with Joe Taunton and Alice.

2nd leg and pretty clean so quite happy.

Great weekend. Remarkably easy drive up to Gretna on Thursday evening . Nice walk up Ben Vorlich on Friday followed by great hospitaility from the Inman's. Threatened downpour on Saturday didn't materialise. And then another amazingly smooth journey home - Just over 8hrs driving from Balmoral

C • Good enough to return? 1

C • Smooth journey 5

Scottish Champs at Balmoral.

Ok run. Missed a minute on 4 - stayed too high but was able to correct quite quickly. Not very secure to 5 and was probably bit lucky to see control. Looks like I lost a bit on steep downhilll from 11 but otherwise the second half went OK. Ended up 2nd nearly 5 mins down on Billbo. But beat all the Scots - just...

Great wood, but I think planning could have been a bit better - less climb and more technically challenging possible I think. Similarly did the Mens elite really need 34 controls? Having said that, Alice's course looked fine. And really looking forward to running here again in 2018.

BOK Army Champs - Score event - in New Beechenhurst. Reasonably obvious what the best (or close to best) route was. Made a minute or so mistake towards the end - miss reading the map by some lakes close to the North Western tips. Cost me at least one or possibly two other controls I might have got at the end. Don't think I could quite have got them all tho'.

Shoes bright yellow at the end - covered in Bluebell Pollen.

Out across Ashton Cort then into Providence and Ashton Hill plantation for a change. Back via some footpaths we've not used before - reasonably clear of vegetation but fields pretty rough and rutted. Bumped into Matt Franklin out cycling in Fifty Acre Wood