Training Archive: walkIn the 7 days ending 2007-08-12:
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Saturday Aug 11 | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Another long run to start, stretching. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:26:55 [4] *** 5.9 km (14:44 / km) +195m 12:39 / km | |
| ahr:147 max:167 spiked:17/20c shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Day 6, Anagach West and Heathfield , E of Grantown - 50, gray turning to lt drizzle (steady rain after).
Nice area. Detailed glacial features with areas of heather, fern, lots of open woods, all wrapped around large marshes. Week catching up, got real tired towards end and hard to push, made dumb mistakes (dumber than rest of week) and HR lower than should be for race. 1 Started by missing trail from start leading in proper direction, choosing to run thru heather instead. Then halfway, lined up compass on #6 (course wrapped around on itself and this was just beyond) and almost got there before realizing error. 10. Took bad route and followed herd path rather than plan a good route - like straight to a trail that went almost to it and what I used to relocate in the end, duh! Then just slowing, out of energy. Long week. 97th of 146. 889 pts Final placing 93/3855 pts Lyn was 27/3856 pts. Great week overall tho O could be much better. Fun to be in new territory. | ||
Friday Aug 10 | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 1:00:00 [1] 4.1 km (14:38 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Another long run to the start (1.1k), then stretching. Also walked to and from Event as parking was limited, 1.5k each way. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:21:20 [4] *** 5.3 km (15:21 / km) +120m 13:47 / km | |
| ahr:158 max:179 spiked:12/14c shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Day 5 - Camerory, NW of Grantown and campsite - 65, gray w some sun, actually warm when sun was out.
We got out on moors on this map: 2 long legs, 900m, with 3 shorter legs. Start and finish few controls, ~60%, in pretty open woods with a couple sections of blow downs from recent storm. The first section of blow down was streamered as it was really thick and impassable otherwise. Another section of scattered blow downs was on a rather steep slope with numerous cliffs, boulders and small clearings, all of which seemed to be used for controls sites but none enough to provide solid relocation points. Courses came over the hill to hit this slope and try to pick out the feature. I nailed mine, just seeing the bag above a rock around a downed tree. Lyn spent 45' wandering around here and Ian Finlayson said he spent 25' attacking up and down the slope. Must have spent my good fortune here as I then spent 10:45 going 150m to the next control (#11), described as a 4.0m middle cliff. There was a 4m slope in this area that I went right past, circled around on a shelf just above, then beyond and finally relocating on big boulders mid-way. Hit the cliff in a stream of Oers - at the bottom of the 4m grassy, steep slope was a rock face approx 1m high with the bag hidden behind some green. This was the only bag on my course hidden in such a manner, guess I should have been ready for it. Legs 4 to 8 were across the moor land. The first half of 4 was deep - knee to mid-thigh heather with soft spongy moss/peat under that. No firm footing. Really hard to run, more like post-holing in deep snow. Most of the rest was shorter, mid-calf, but still hard going. Was able to get onto some burnt off sections in parts but this was a hard run. Not sure we have anything like it here except trying to run in snow, slightly wrong season. 71 of 150 for 963 pts. Now 88 overall with 3855 pts (Day 2 dropped - best 4 days) | ||
Thursday Aug 9 | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Jog to the start, stretching, jogging through the woods to check the footing etc - more moss covered rough ground but pretty open. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:05:57 [4] *** 5.6 km (11:47 / km) +50m 11:16 / km | |
| ahr:157 max:175 spiked:13/16c shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Scottish 6, Day 4 - Culbin - Actually sunny and 70, a nice day. On the seacoast E of Inverness on Moray Firth on terrain very similar to French 5 jours. Map 1:7500, 2.5m contours. Mostly open woods with short patches of green. Some detailed dune patches with long flat sections in between. Trails and fire breaks at regular intervals, good footing - not the loose sand of France.
Good run overall with clean legs and a couple bobbles. Would have been a great run except for major boom on 10, not sticking fiercely to plan. Intended to go straight to a trail to run the basically flat section and trails almost to the control. Contoured around the detail section to R and not down to the trail and came upon a mixed veg and then green section that I couldn't place. Even when I came to trail crossings, didn't stop long enough to really locate position and thought I was 300m from actual location and continued on with more parallel errors, winding up 500m away when finally located. 9' error and lost about 70 places! 90th for 936pts. Lyn had picked up the wrong map, found the correct #1 but got to the #2 on that map before realizing the problem, running back for the correct map and heading out again - 25' loss. Woe to us. | ||
Wednesday Aug 8 | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Salomon XA 2 | ||
| Rest day and rain let up. Ham/butt has been bothering and is not comfortable sitting driving car. So suggested hanging in town rather than drive around rainy Scotland looking at soggy, green hills. Can do that at home. We're not very good tourists - rather run in the woods. So did a long walk into town and around. Thought there would be a farm show across from the Event Center, but they were just setting up for tomorrow. Went and had a shower instead. Then into town for coffee and down to woods by the river to check out a Woods Fair, which was today. Wood carving, with chisels etc and another using a chain saw, toy making of twigs, bark, small branches - all cute stuff.
Back to the campsite to see if the muddy entrance to the field had dried out at all. With all the rain, it had become a mud bog and cars were parked on the side of the estate road for most of the week. The field itself had good drainage and was fine, just the repeated mass of cars. | ||
Tuesday Aug 7 | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Long run to start. There is no sympathy here. Long distances to starts with big climbs included. No water or clothes drops either. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:14:41 [4] *** 5.7 km (13:06 / km) +115m 11:54 / km | |
| ahr:152 max:174 spiked:14/18c shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Scottish 6 - Day 3, Inshriach West, S of Aviemore -50, lt rain at start then brightened.Started in thick woods area with thick moss under foot. Visibility limited. Little contour relief. Slow going. Blew 3 a bit R, but badly screwed up 4 and took a while to relocate (-8'). After 6, got into open woods with very detailed glacial type terrain at 7 to 9. Then long contour along rather featureless, open wood.
Had late start so very distinct herd paths. Great if you're on the right one but... 82 today of 147 for 949 points, 2888 total. | ||
Monday Aug 6 | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Jog to start and around the fields to loosen/warm up. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:20:47 [4] *** 5.6 km (14:26 / km) +200m 12:14 / km | |
| spiked:8/16c shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Scottish 6, Day 2 Balavil, S of Aviemore - 55, gray, cool wind at start, lt rain after all night rain (and slightly leaking tent). The notes warned about possible difficulties if Raitts Burn was in spate! It was but still not that outrageous. The crossings were mid-calf but on loose rock footing which could a problem for 'old folks'.
Not the greatest of runs. Several route choice errors that led to longer times than should have been. Rushed too much away from the controls without good planning. Plus a couple of wrong directions. Finished 83. Overall now 73 with 932 pts for today, so well below the mean. Still fun to be on new maps with hoards of people going in every direction. | ||