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Sunday Mar 23, 2014 #
Event: Waterside C
Event: Black Mountains MBO
10 AM
MTB race 3:29:49 49.06 km (14.0 kph) +1337m
ahr:132 max:164
Black Mountains MBO Series - #1
Pandy nr Abergavenny
3.5hr MTBO race with all 4 seasons in 3.5hrs! Rain, snow, sleet and sunshine.
I thought the course was clearable when I planned the course but had planned on dropping one if the time was short.
Was I wrong! I stuck to the original plan until the 45th minute where I decided to drop a 30 pointer (#6) and collect in on the return leg as I thought the route might be muddy and slow. As it turned out I didn't have time on the return leg to collect it :-(
I then lost 10mins searching for CP#7 and ended up descending 60m to far and 300m horizontal. So I had to double back :-(
I went past the next CP (#13) by 300m and had to double back. Lost a further 3mins here.
I was aware of the time I'd lost so I decided to drop into Grwynne valley to collect CP#15 and CP#19 and dropping CP#17 (10 points) and CP#18 (20 points).
I was a little unlucky on my route choice from CP#16 to CP#21. The obvious choice was a bridleway but I knew it was a hike a bike as I'd done it on the Black Mountains fell race a few years ago. I decided to double back from CP#16 and head up a series of fire roads shown on the map. However they didn't exist! So I ended up hike-a-biking through a sheep trod through the trees. I lost 9 mins to Ifor Powell on this leg who took the most direct route. I'll know next time!
After CP#21, there was a great descent off Crug Mawr and I was fortunate not to fly past CP#23. I was beginning to get concerned about time now as I had only 1hr after descending the mountain.
On the return leg I dropped CP#14 (10 pointer) as I'd planned before starting. I also had to drop CP#6 (30 pointer) which was a bummer but I couldn't risk the 1km out and back plus 80m ascent.
I got really worried when I was headed off the road up the muddy path to CP#3 as it was steeper and muddier than I'd expected. And the leg from CP#3 to #2 was muddy too.
However the section after CP#2 was road :-). Then another problem :-( as I lost my dibber. I got to CP1 and it was no longer on my finger. I decided not to head back to try and find it and just flew back to the finish and stopped my GPS 11s under the allotted time :-). I explained to the organiser that I'd lost my dibber and he said that I should go back and try and find it, which I did and found it. Luckily he credited me my actual finish time too :-)
So I got 420 compared to Ifor's 458 which wasn't too bad considering I'd lost about 25m in errors.
Something to work on in the next race.
Map (Pre-start strategy)
Pandy nr Abergavenny
3.5hr MTBO race with all 4 seasons in 3.5hrs! Rain, snow, sleet and sunshine.
I thought the course was clearable when I planned the course but had planned on dropping one if the time was short.
Was I wrong! I stuck to the original plan until the 45th minute where I decided to drop a 30 pointer (#6) and collect in on the return leg as I thought the route might be muddy and slow. As it turned out I didn't have time on the return leg to collect it :-(
I then lost 10mins searching for CP#7 and ended up descending 60m to far and 300m horizontal. So I had to double back :-(
I went past the next CP (#13) by 300m and had to double back. Lost a further 3mins here.
I was aware of the time I'd lost so I decided to drop into Grwynne valley to collect CP#15 and CP#19 and dropping CP#17 (10 points) and CP#18 (20 points).
I was a little unlucky on my route choice from CP#16 to CP#21. The obvious choice was a bridleway but I knew it was a hike a bike as I'd done it on the Black Mountains fell race a few years ago. I decided to double back from CP#16 and head up a series of fire roads shown on the map. However they didn't exist! So I ended up hike-a-biking through a sheep trod through the trees. I lost 9 mins to Ifor Powell on this leg who took the most direct route. I'll know next time!
After CP#21, there was a great descent off Crug Mawr and I was fortunate not to fly past CP#23. I was beginning to get concerned about time now as I had only 1hr after descending the mountain.
On the return leg I dropped CP#14 (10 pointer) as I'd planned before starting. I also had to drop CP#6 (30 pointer) which was a bummer but I couldn't risk the 1km out and back plus 80m ascent.
I got really worried when I was headed off the road up the muddy path to CP#3 as it was steeper and muddier than I'd expected. And the leg from CP#3 to #2 was muddy too.
However the section after CP#2 was road :-). Then another problem :-( as I lost my dibber. I got to CP1 and it was no longer on my finger. I decided not to head back to try and find it and just flew back to the finish and stopped my GPS 11s under the allotted time :-). I explained to the organiser that I'd lost my dibber and he said that I should go back and try and find it, which I did and found it. Luckily he credited me my actual finish time too :-)
So I got 420 compared to Ifor's 458 which wasn't too bad considering I'd lost about 25m in errors.
Something to work on in the next race.
Map (Pre-start strategy)
Thursday Mar 20, 2014 #
6 PM
Running warm up/down 12:57 [1] 1.26 mi (5.8 mph) +68m
ahr:156 max:184
MDC Hill intervals night
with Jules, Chris, Marcus, Mark, Mesh, Ed & Dave.
Warm up by run around the side of Caerphilly Mountain.
with Jules, Chris, Marcus, Mark, Mesh, Ed & Dave.
Warm up by run around the side of Caerphilly Mountain.
Running intervals 28:01 2.34 mi (5.0 mph) +322m
ahr:135 max:166
Hmmmm that was hard.
1 - 2m 10s
2 - 2m 16s
3 - 2m 16s
4 - 2m 19s
5 - 2m 21s
6 - 2m 19s
1 - 2m 10s
2 - 2m 16s
3 - 2m 16s
4 - 2m 19s
5 - 2m 21s
6 - 2m 19s
Running warm up/down 11:22 1.01 mi (5.3 mph) +73m
ahr:132 max:162
Wednesday Mar 19, 2014 #
Event: SWOC Dash in the Dark 6
7 PM
Running 57:22 6.76 mi (7.1 mph) +149m
ahr:146
SWOC Street O - Thornhill
Not a bad run but nowhere near clearing the course like several others. I had to stop for an emergency No.2 half way around too!
I messed up the start as I couldn't find the little footpath that headed directly north to the first CP and I ended up taking a longer route. [By comparison with Marcus Magic's route I lost over 3 minutes to the 2nd CP (26)]
[I was approx 5 mins behind Marcus for the CP directly south of the start so I lost 2 mins on him between the 2 second CP and there]
I was a little indecisive at times too.
Map
Not a bad run but nowhere near clearing the course like several others. I had to stop for an emergency No.2 half way around too!
I messed up the start as I couldn't find the little footpath that headed directly north to the first CP and I ended up taking a longer route. [By comparison with Marcus Magic's route I lost over 3 minutes to the 2nd CP (26)]
[I was approx 5 mins behind Marcus for the CP directly south of the start so I lost 2 mins on him between the 2 second CP and there]
I was a little indecisive at times too.
Map