Training Archive: ndobbsIn the 31 days ending 2005-05-31:
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Sunday May 29 | ||
| orienteering race 1:06:00 [4] *** | |
| NOC2005
Relay 3rd Leg, After MArcus and Colm O'H We were 10 behind Estonia 2 and well ahead of Irl2, so not much for me to do. Thankfully. I was knackered (theme of the week). Even though the orienteering was a little simpler I still had no flow and found map-reading on run difficult. Made a couple of mistakes but nothing major. Actually made one big mistake. Got round of applause for crossing finish line, Waved, staggered on a few steps, realised women's prizegiving was happening. Ran back instead of kissing all the girls... oh the missed opportunity. aaghghhhh... | ||
Saturday May 28 | ||
| orienteering warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| warming up for the Middle | ||
| orienteering race 46:58 [4] ***** | |
| NOC2005
Middle/Micro Still knckered. Messed up the first, very technical control - it was along a hillside with lots of indistinct reentrants and veg changes. Also messed up third, ath this point I was 6 minutes down. By the fifth it was 9., bad route choice rather than lost. Eventually made it into the micro orienteering. 1:5 map, so arrived on the first bunch of controls faster than expected, thankfully it was a distinctive point feature so I got ti no prob. Second cotrol was in a reentrant, as were at least three dummy controls. Chose the right one by virtue of the crag 20 m prior. After the obligatory it was downhill orienteering. I took it slow, mispunched, realised error and punched the correct one, so skipped a later control. Unfortunately screwed up the control in the reentrant too, so had two penalty loops. Was dead going out for the last three normal controls. Thought the concept wprked really quite well. Penalty loops are good for spectators!!! Not for FabienP though, who may have run 7!!! | ||
| C • 1 | ||
Friday May 27 | ||
| running 18:30 [2] | |
| morning jog to loosen up, stretch etc. after yesterday's epic. No force/power left in the legs, other than that feel ok. | ||
| running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| afternoon, preparing for sprint | ||
| orienteering race 19:26 [5] *** | |
| NOC2005
Sprint Brevik Tired legs, went carefully to the 1st, thought I was doing so to the second, missed a junction by 10 seconds.... third went well, fourth was a second off fastest split, fifth was above rather than below which was disconcertin, lost maybe 15-25 secs. 6th wasn't really reading the map either. relocated (without really being lost, just the first time reading the map) and got the control. 7th good, 8th thought it was off in a completely different direction so lost 30 seconds before realising, 9th not the ideal route choice but ok, 10 got drench by a bucket of water by some spectating bastards. missed the turn while descneding for the eleventh, enddee up at the spectator control, punched started crossing bridge and said hey, that wasn't the control i wanted, had to go back past the laughing crowds three times in total - lost a minute - before heading on to get the last 4 straightforard controls. need more energy to do things like that. | ||
| C • 2 | ||
Thursday May 26 | ||
| orienteering 10:00 [2] | |
| Warm up on map for Classic | ||
| orienteering race 2:25:16 [4] ***** 12.3 km (11:49 / km) +570m 9:35 / km | |
| NOC 2005
Long Holy shit, this is what orienteering is about. Long, physical, tough navigation, tough motivationally... one bitch of a course!! Lost several minutes on the 3rd control and a bit hairy to the fourth too. Got into it on the way to the fifth, not good to the 8th again, or early on the way to the 9th. HHJ caught me on the way down from the 9th, followed by finn and estonian. I follwed tothe 12th (spectator control) and let them away, drinking my fill. Leg 14->15 was unreal. I took 2 7 minutes with a less than ideal rout echoice, which involved crags, more crags, roughground, boulder field, brakches, crags and eh more crags. Don't know how I survived. Since I was dead by the 13th (or maybe 5th) control, it was a real endurance test just to finish the race. Beautiful, beautiful memories of pain and suffering, not the kind of race I want to do twice a week, but a little more often would be nice, as would being fit enough to run it well. Back muscles afterwards were the most tired/stiff, indication that I am not at all terrain-fit. Winner (Nordberg) ran 87 | ||
Wednesday May 25 | ||
| trail run warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| to and from Model area | ||
| orienteering 42:50 [2] *** | |
| Middle Distance (and MicrO) Model event.
Micro was interesting and fairly straightforward. Messed up the first control (pnuched incorrectyl followed by correctly), got the rest right without wasting _much_ time - as much as 20 seconds or not?? this is one of the vital questions... the two post-micro controls were very tricky. made a mistake at the third too, not a good mistake either - although should be easily avoidable. | ||
Tuesday May 24 | ||
| orienteering 1:07:15 [2] | |
| Norway, by Notodden. North part of the old competition area map. 1:15000. tough stuff!! About 20 or 25 minutes was spent joggin to start and jogging back from the hole.........
After 12 controls (mistakes on 2&3) in nice forest, went for one in semi-green. The ground was rough and my foot went into a narrow hole. Bashed my shin. Inspected it briefly , there was a long white indent where it made impact (and no hair). Decide it was sore and to limp/run back to the car rather than risk further misadventures. It had started bleeding by the time I got back. Wiped it clean (I hope) witha wet swab - it was pretty deep - and bandaged it. Lucky I appear ot to have done more serious damage. (Note - over a week later it is still sore) | ||
Monday May 23 | ||
| orienteering 1:07:13 [2] | |
| Made the bus to the ariport yesteday with ten minutes to spare, "slept" in Oslo (gardermoen) airport last night before getting the early bus to Kongsberg to be met by Marcus and Toni to go to accommodation in Bolkesjo, converted old restaurant by a lak, on orienteering map, all very nice!!
And so a couple of days of training for the Nordic Champs started. Forest was beautiful, steep in places (slid three metres down a rock face I was ascending, all the time on my feet) and made a few mistakes. nice place!! | ||
Sunday May 22 | ||
| forest run warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
| warm up for the relay. had to wait a long time, so did patchy warm-ups for quite a while. | ||
| orienteering race 1:05:11 [5] *** 10.3 km (6:20 / km) | |
| Loches
CFC relay Last leg (the longest) in Division 2. Was ready for the mass start at 11.30, also at twelve, but they didn't happen. Alain came through at 10 past, and I was off. Thinking about making my flight that evening to Norway, my mind wasn't particularly focussed and I started making errors. The worst was leaving 7 as if going towards 6 and doing a 180... which added up to a 270 degree error!! Realised shortly after, but then didn't do the 8th control well anyhow. I think I passeda couple of people, not sure... not a good run in any case - H45 managed to do 63 minutes (ok he's good, but still) | ||
Saturday May 21 | ||
| forest run warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| probably twenty minutes mostly before the middle distance race, plus stretching. | ||
| orienteering race 36:19 [5] *** 6.7 km (5:25 / km) | |
| Loches,
Criterium National Moyenne Distance, or at least that is what ist was called last year. TG won in 29 something so I had a pretty good race, copule of mistakes notably biggish directinal errors on the way to 5 and 6. Managed to keep all errors fairly small, essentially only stopping occasionally to take more precise bearings. Very happy afterwards, think I came twelfth (although some squad members were not treating it seriously). First decent race in months and months. | ||
Thursday May 19 | ||
| trail run 43:01 [2] * | |
| Orsay, gentle run, Sigtuna map. Fast hills yesterday hurt feet a bit. Need to be careful. And racing this weekend plus next week will be tough, so took it easy as planned. Would have been easy to do an extra 15 minutes. | ||
Wednesday May 18 | ||
| trail run hills 42:16 [3] | |
| orsay
2 fast hills (1:37, 1:33), one slower but still fairly fast (2:00) and one longer loop. downhills much much faster than when there was snow!! am i starting to feel better again? | ||
Tuesday May 17 | ||
| trail run 1:20:11 [3] | |
| orsay, long loop, even a little bit longer than usual perhaps!
v tired coming home afterwards. bits of the run were run fast (incl a 1:35 uphill - rec is 1:30!) | ||
Sunday May 15 | ||
| forest run warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| warm-up for FFSU champs, didn't do much by way of warm-down :( | ||
| orienteering race 42:35 [5] *** 5.3 km (8:02 / km) +150m 7:02 / km | |
| FFSU Champs,
La Quillane, W part of map. Nice place. Near Font Romeu, Pyrénées Orientales. Horsed up the 6th control by 4 minutes. Should hqve realised it was the trickiest control, thought I would be able to read myself back in after crossing the marsh with at most a minute lost but no. Grr. Also lost 2 minutes on controls 13&14 to make it a rather bad (if enjoyable) run. Map seemed a little strange, but my map-reading asn't as clearheaded as it ought to have been. Motivated to start cutting out mistakes. Alban Dalberto showed what was possible running the course in 34 minutes | ||
Saturday May 14 | ||
| forest run warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
| La Quillane warmup/down for FFSU Relay. | ||
| orienteering race 18:20 [5] | |
| FFSU Relay,
La Quillane, Font Romeu. First leg, led to the first control, already clear of th epack by the third apparently. Nice and open and easy to start with. Indeed the whole course was relatively easy, made a 40 second mistake very very stupidly (20 m from path bend stupid) and a little wobbly on one longer leg and one possibly non-ideal routechoice, but otherwise clean. Mistake was big enough to merit this being classed as a bad run though. Grrr. Alban D ran 16:20 for a course 100m shorter. | ||
Tuesday May 10 | ||
| running 45:12 [3] | |
| Barcelona,
Hotel to beach and back again. Interesting place! | ||
Monday May 9 | ||
| running 1:00:32 [3] | |
| Barcelona,
Hotel up to Montjuic (with a wee detour) and back. Quite a bit of climb?? | ||
Saturday May 7 | ||
| running 56:20 [3] | |
| Barcelona,
form Hostel Mare del Deu up the hill behind (with small park), around to the arse end of PArk Gruell, (actually the park beyond), back through gruell, did a bit of sightseeing - gaudi architecture and whatnot. Out for quite a while. Running shorts and singlet for the first time this year!!! | ||
Thursday May 5 | ||
| orienteering race 2:40:56 [4] **** | |
| 154c | ||
| Bois Rond - O Verte Dose
World Record Attempt!! Managed to not punch the last water control, suffering as I was from thirst and hunger, denying myself a place in the books. Fabrice Vannier and JM Delaume proved their class completing the record in 2h04/06 respectively. Stars! Weather was nice, not too hot and a bit sunny. As for the race, the first 60 controls flew by, despite making several mistakes. Afterwards I started suffering. Running became harder due to tiredness and I slowed down, although I was already well off the pace. Not that I was hoping to challenge given my lack of fitness. Lovely terrain, made the orienteering a real pleasure. Map link in the discussion page. | ||
Wednesday May 4 | ||
| trail run 1:19:00 [3] | |
| Trail Run Orsay, from the maths dept. Ran part of the return half quite fast, first time feeling halfway fit for ages. Started in the rain, cleared up after maybe 20 minutes. | ||
Monday May 2 | ||
| running 20:00 [2] | |
| To and from the Relay, Inishbofin roads. | ||
| orienteering race 31:00 [5] **** | |
| Inishbofin, Irish Relay, first leg (no team).
More technical than the classic for some unforgiveable reason. Good stuff, but too tired (or bad at orienteering?) to do t well. Same course as Avelino Pinto, we leapfrogged, he finished first by a couple of seconds. Got cold and wet waiting around afterwards - it was dry for the first leg. | ||
Sunday May 1 | ||
| running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
| To and from and warm up for IOC Classic race, | ||
| orienteering race | |
| Irish Champs,
Inishbofin. Still haven't drawn in my route. Leading at the first control!! Then messed up the second, didn't count the reentrants properly. One bad route, one major wobble and a couple of small probs and I might have lost 6 minutes total. Main problem was fitness because the courses were planned easy - the terrain was fantastic and technical. Reading a map became tough as tiredness set in (from control 2?). 6th place I think. About where I belong gven my bad navigation and low fitness levels. Must get back in shape!! AndrewQ Kicked ass again in a really excellent time of 62 minutes (way too short for an irish champs) | ||