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Training Log Archive: PaulT

In the 28 days ending Feb 28, 2009:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Orienteering10 12:06:2477 /273c28%
  Run14 9:13:0020c
  S & C3 2:41:00
  Total19 24:00:2477 /293c26%

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Saturday Feb 28, 2009 #

Orienteering race 1:08:18 [3] ***
24c shoes: Blacks

BOC - one goof and three slight misses, so very ordinary from that point of view. 8th, which would have settled for given the manic work schedule over past 2 months, but frustrating to be 20 secs away from 6th.

Run 30:00 [3]
shoes: Blacks

Thursday Feb 26, 2009 #

Note
(rest day)

travelling, visiting .. time for a day off anyway,

Wednesday Feb 25, 2009 #

Run 20:00 [3]
shoes: Pegasus Yellow

Easy loosener with Sarah

Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 #

Orienteering 30:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

WUD

Orienteering race 49:08 [3] ***
23c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

POM longish race - more boulders than leggin' it. Had almost first start and was alone through the difficult stuff which was a great experience.
Somehow 8th + 8th + 5th + 3rd = 3rd overall.
Despite never getting really comfortable with the boulder mapping, the final result was satisfying and probably because everyone else seems to have had even more problems.
I learned:
- if it seems difficultl, then that's probably because it is.
- Plan + compass + picture seems to work everywhere.
- Looking through the whole week, I was within pi##ing distance of the front despite only having 2 or 3 fastest splits out of 70. 5 seconds per leg would make a difference and even 1 or 2 would help when the race is so close. How many ways must there be to save that much? Being aggressive downhill is perhaps the first.
Great week, hopefully to be repeated.

Monday Feb 23, 2009 #

Run 40:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

WUD and a bit of running around a soccer pitch toward the punch up at #1 - sorry O-show. Better as a spectator than a competitor

Orienteering 27:00 [3] ***
16c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

POM middle - small section of boulders but mostly leggin it. PLanning was charitable through the boulders though lost 1min at #8 with inadeuate picture of a very busy bit of map. Three other hesitations of 10-15 secs, each time before deciding I was right the first time.

Sunday Feb 22, 2009 #

Run 50:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Morning loosener and WUD for POM race

Run 51:00 [3] ***
20c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

POM 'long' race

Saturday Feb 21, 2009 #

Run 24:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Morning loosener and stretch

Run 25:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Middle WUD

Orienteering 28:08 [3] ***
17c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

POM#1 middle

Orienteering 20:00 [3] ***
16c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

POM night sprint plus minimal WUD - jogged first half, clean and somehow was fastest M50

Friday Feb 20, 2009 #

Run 24:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

morning loosener and stretch

Orienteering 53:00 [3] ***
24c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Moedl event - two loops, the second fast

Thursday Feb 19, 2009 #

Run 38:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Morning WUD, drills

Orienteering 2:26:00 [3] ***
34c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

St Barts map - two loops, then pairs relocation with K

Wednesday Feb 18, 2009 #

Run 20:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Evening loosener to main road in dark

Monday Feb 16, 2009 #

Run 35:00 [3]
shoes: Pegasus Yellow

Easy recovery around Guis sprint map - only two corrections. ... then long stretch

Sunday Feb 15, 2009 #

Orienteering 1:40:00 [3] ***
21c shoes: Blacks

JK day3 test run plus jog to start. Nuff said - people may be listening.

S & C 50:00 [3]

Various hotel room circuits during the week.

Saturday Feb 14, 2009 #

Orienteering 1:22:00 [3] ***
18c shoes: Blacks

JK day 2 test run plus jog to start - ssshhhh

Friday Feb 13, 2009 #

Note

The end of a planned easy week, but had hoped it to be easy through choice rather than lack of time. Very satisfying professionally but another 20 hours ofdriving, and almost impossible to reconcile with keeping in shape.

Wednesday Feb 11, 2009 #

Run 35:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Around Oxford in the snow. . Locked in the parks (not for first time) and around roads up to Jericho and back to Radcam. 30 years melt away ....

Sunday Feb 8, 2009 #

Orienteering 58:00 [3] ***
spiked:49/50c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

WUD, pre-running some JK courses, jogging between finish and starts. Great contrast within the courses.

S & C 41:00 [3]

45/15 living room circuits.

Saturday Feb 7, 2009 #

Run 40:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Tour of the felling, 10cm of snow and more falling. Very scenic and a good core workout but difficult to generate any speed. Aborted a trip to Cod Beck.

Run 38:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Intended to 20/20, but the melt put paid to that. Slogged around Pinchinthorpe, pushing it on hills.

Friday Feb 6, 2009 #

Run 28:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Around green bits in town.

Thursday Feb 5, 2009 #

Run 30:00 [3]
shoes: Pegasus Yellow

Handforth anticlockwise loop, very early morning. At last the pavement ice has gone.

Wednesday Feb 4, 2009 #

S & C 1:10:00 [3]

combined of the Premier Inn effort efforts

Sunday Feb 1, 2009 #

Run 25:00 [3]
shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Jog to remote start and back from even more remote finish. I've no idea what the planning constraints were today, but there was no focal point whatever. None. Scandi's would not believe it.

Orienteering race 1:04:50 [3] ***
ahr:153 spiked:28/30c shoes: Blue Swoops 1

Tired, so ran steadily concentrating on flow, which worked well. O'd the last 3km really solidly. Course perhaps 1km too short for M35L.
Any part of the map with a screen on was knee high bramble and very unpleasant, so anything other than path running was a treat. Fastest split on a longer leg with a curvy route, despite not being able to see the kite from 10m away in a ''clearing'. In Clumber, clearings are not ..... clear.

A few hesitations and:

#14 - fooled by one of the few contours on the map and did not have a picture - 30secs.

#19 dodgy looking control site between two of many Rhodo thickets. Took a crafty longer route to a good attackpoint in the circle ..... but the white forest en route was not white and the fence corner was just wrongly positioned on the map. -1:15. Not sure I would have done anything differently.

Surprised to be within a shout of MW. Just need some speed now.

Highlight: a timed out leg across the bridge where Colin McRae (RIP) parked his RS Cosworth in the RAC Rally in the early 90s.

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