Training Log Archive: Nick Mead

Event: New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2012
 

Nationals sprint! At Kristin. little slow on the first couple, bad route to 1. Then kind of just quite slow later on in Kristin when it got a bit tight and the controls were closed together. struggled to keep up with the map and had to stop a couple of times. Also a average route choice or two in there. lost a little on the deck one as well, then pushed hard to the finish. Ended up 4th which was a bit suprising to say the least, considering I didn't have that cleaner run. Stoked with the result though.

Mens Elite - Splits

about 25 mins of easy running then quite allot of walking with rae. Both felt pretty tired so just walked it out. Suprised at how rubbish my legs felt.... Anyhow nice break from study for my bloody test tommorrow

jog over to the side of north head and back for drills

few little drills, up on the side of mt vic

quick little boxing bag session with core inbetween rounds. 6 x 2 mins, then 2 mins core after each. good little break from my poor attempts at study

nice run up the green route,to taka beach, tide was a bit high so over the hill then down to the coast at st leonards. just made it round the coast with out too much rock climbing, then fort taka and home. flet pretty good, just a couple of minature blisters on the toes from yesterday, i'll survive though

bit slow on 1 and 4, then didn't make much sense of 6 and lost atleast a min or so there, map was dodgy. small mistakes on 10 and 11, 12 was in the wrong place, slow to 13. went to high on 14 and expected it to be a bit more in the green so kind of tryed to search there, turns out I was just to high and it was right next to the track (very yellow control haha), lost about 90 sec there. Then there was 15, guess I just didn't read the map very well... thought I went to the end of the spur, but apparently not, was a bit stupid, anyhow wasted a few mins there, then trotted back into the finish. better to do it now than next week I suppose.

not too sure on the time yet, can't be too far off though just depends how long i took for 1. felt a bit tired from the start. didn't orientate my map to well to 3 and made a very silly mistake, and got confused at what the hell I had done, so wasted atleast 90 sec there. That kind of threw me of for the next few controls and I'm sure I lost plenty of time on all of them, rushing, and not thinking straight. Managed to slow it down a bit and compose my self and was kind of ok from then on. bit slow to 9, 14 and 15 though. This showed me how easy it is to fuck up a few in a row, if you lose your concentration, was ridiculously crap from 3 through to 6. Rest felt ok, just a bit tired to really run fast, mainly up the hills. Still was good to get in some reasonable orienteering before nats.

checking/finding control sites off in the green off beautiful hills. Found a couple of nice and challenging sites, so was quite productive. legs were pretty tired, so allot of it was just tramping (not that the terrain allowed allot more), bit of running back out at the end though

to work, then from work to orienteering afterwards, went quite fast to try and not be late

schools sprint champs course at epson campus. stuffed up 1, then was kind of alright for the rest, although maybe made a couple of average route choices, and didn't read quite far enough ahead on a couple. felt a bit slow and tired running as well. Good to do before nationals though