Training Log Archive: Lewis T

British Champs Relay. Will and Jegor had solid runs and put me out in 3rd... I know I had much stronger runners behind me so had to just concentrate on my own race. Solid apart from number 4 where I lost maybe 40 seconds. Graham came past me here and didnt see him until he made an error later on. He soon came flying past and used him until the spectator run through where he was gone. Pushed on, then Tim came up again and he just got 10m on me coming out of the 3rd last control and couldn't catch.

What happened next was that 3 teams (SHUOC, NOC and FVO1) got disqualified for miss-punching in various ways. So we got put into 2nd! BOOM. Second British champs medal after 2012 M20E bronze in the middle distance. I'll take it because podiums don't happen very often for me anymore. It would be nice if I could be further up in the results, orienteering ability is there, just need to get alot fitter.

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British Champs Long. Most enjoyable race this year so far. Fairly solid orienteering apart from some minor mistakes due to running on a 1:15 scale map. Tired towards the end but feel like I'm getting stronger slowly.

Run out from Polmaise with Jon and GG. Nice leg shake out for the weekend. Legs not too bad from last night. Looking forward to a tough classic race on Saturday

Dumyat Hill race. Meh. Took a minute off my time from last year but felt like I should be capable of going sub 40. Was 1 min faster to the top than last year but didn't desend as well. Enjoyed the race though, need to more hill races

Easy run round Fallin checking sites for next weeks event

Started with K from Dunblane, down to BOA, then I headed back to Darn Walk to the car. Drove back home then ran the last loop with K round town