Training Log Archive: ndobbs

warming up for the Middle

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

morning jog to loosen up, stretch etc. after yesterday's epic. No force/power left in the legs, other than that feel ok.

afternoon, preparing for sprint

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

Warm up on map for Classic

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

to and from Model area

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.

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)

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!!

warm up for the relay. had to wait a long time, so did patchy warm-ups for quite a while.

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)