Training Log Archive: AlistairH

Tinto Twin day event, SOL 7, Inchriach, Brown course. 23/29. Won by Tim G in 60'30. Again, fairly positive despite lowly position. All went very well to start with but lost it a bit later - 2'30 at no. 9, 1' at no. 12 and then 1'30 at 13 - I had just got overtaken by paw and was trying to put up something at least resembling a fight - I headed left round some buildings which I thought he was going around to the right... but it turned out he was going the right way and I was running off in entirely the wrong direction. Oh well. Enjoyed the course.

Event: Scottish O League 7 (Tinto Twin)
 

Tinto Twin night event @ Inchriach. Despite coming last on course 1 this wasn't too bad by the standard of my previous night orienteering... No truly enormous errors (which I have done before at night) but a minor miss at 5 (2'30) and two fairly serious misses at 4 and 11 (10' each). The error at 4 came about from following my compass as a path rather than trying to navigate the reasonably easy route along a steep slope and then over. Took ages to relocate (or rather about 10 seconds from when I started standing still and thinking after 10 mins of running around). I doubt I missed 11 by much but just couldn't relocate and had to go out to the road and back. Should have taken a safe route. Fun though. NIght orienteering is so much more feasible with a proper headlamp.

5,000 days since I first hurt my achilles tendons...

4 x 200m (4 due to races at weekend)

Achilles tendons not feeling too great today. Was going to rest today or tomorrow so decided on today.

ESOC Circuits. Exhausting! Struggled on quite a few of the stations - I've spent too much of the last few years sitting down a desk.... only one way to fix it...

Adding lunges on a 'more days than not' basis