Training Log Archive: FRBlackSheep

Event: Jukola 2012
 

Route was from Elton to Parwich, hadn't recce'd it so went and scouted the finish which was handy as part of it went through someone's garden and that would of made me hesitate and looked at a middle section which seemed complex and the start, so fairly confident nav wise to start.

Got handed over to in 5th place about 1 sec up on the guy from DVO and 5 min down on 3rd - dropped the DVO guy immediately and caught the others within the 1st mile or so, but felt I needed to push it as wanted to give Dad as much of a cushion as possible. As it happens had 2nd fastest split - bit gutted as only 1min down on the fastest, mum said it was ok as he was a club runner..... obviously I don't qualifyb as one ;-)

Gave dad a cushion of 7 min approx and he lengthened it to 11min - good work.

So the 2nd loop finished 3rd overall and 1st orienteering team, but when combined with the 1st loop we were 5th an annoying 30 seconds behind one of the running clubs!

Fun stuff pushed hard and was running well

http://www.derwentvalleyorienteers.org.uk/results/...

Event: London Park Race Series 5: Roehampton University
 

Not the greatest run, but apart from finishing 11th - was one of those races where you couldn't make an error and was 2 min down on the lead but only 1 min down on 3rd and I faffed up 3-4 where I dropped a min where I hesitated and didn't commit to my route quickly enough...

http://sloweb.org.uk/results/20120612/

http://sloweb.org.uk/results/20120612/