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Saturday May 25, 2013 #
Orienteering race (SINS Croft Castle) 1:05:14 [3] 8.77 km (7:26 / km) +235m 6:34 / km
slept:5.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
7.3km short brown course.
After 1 found veg much worse than expected from map. Backed out of going acros and went by the big thicket so as to hit the path. Then turned off too early and lost 2 mins looking in the wrong place - think the black X on the map was lower down than mapped.
Tired by 3. Didn't spot best routechoice to 5 and lost a lot of time trying to find a way of getting down. Not fun. At least found nice contouring track 5-6 although lost 1 min finding control (warned in start lanes it was dodgy).
No pace up the hill out of 9, 10 ok; alongside Paul had issue with mapping of paths on way to 11 then messed it up. Not convinced by it's location but GPS implies it wasn't wrong in the way I had thought. Kept just above the steep bit to 12 then Mark S overtook as I fought my way over brambles.
Going well across the common to 16 and 17 but had lost the path and thought I'd gone too low so went wrong way for control.
Worked out I'd lost around 10 mins in total. Apart from 4-5 being awful terrain for me, it was quite nice but wouldn't be rushing back here in a hurry.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911181
After 1 found veg much worse than expected from map. Backed out of going acros and went by the big thicket so as to hit the path. Then turned off too early and lost 2 mins looking in the wrong place - think the black X on the map was lower down than mapped.
Tired by 3. Didn't spot best routechoice to 5 and lost a lot of time trying to find a way of getting down. Not fun. At least found nice contouring track 5-6 although lost 1 min finding control (warned in start lanes it was dodgy).
No pace up the hill out of 9, 10 ok; alongside Paul had issue with mapping of paths on way to 11 then messed it up. Not convinced by it's location but GPS implies it wasn't wrong in the way I had thought. Kept just above the steep bit to 12 then Mark S overtook as I fought my way over brambles.
Going well across the common to 16 and 17 but had lost the path and thought I'd gone too low so went wrong way for control.
Worked out I'd lost around 10 mins in total. Apart from 4-5 being awful terrain for me, it was quite nice but wouldn't be rushing back here in a hurry.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/318911181
Wednesday May 22, 2013 #
Orienteering race (Warmley) 33:00 [3] 6.28 km (5:15 / km) +60m 5:01 / km
slept:5.0 weight:73.9kg shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
BOK event at Warmley. 5.4km long course.
Running pace felt steady but not quick. Managed to keep going throughout without slowing but surprised at how hot I felt.
No mistakes, good route choices. Only problem was that I found I didn't seem to get the chance to read the map fully so was missing features in the circle.
Was within a few seconds of having overtaken all starters ahead of me. 20s off Burley, about 5 mins down on Adam. Good to see so many fellow NGOC out, sounds like there could be enthusiasm for some of my ideas...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/316646526
Have to hope for more ok runs like this if I stand any chance of holding off Mark (1-2 mins behind) and Joe (4 mins) on any of the days this weekend...
Running pace felt steady but not quick. Managed to keep going throughout without slowing but surprised at how hot I felt.
No mistakes, good route choices. Only problem was that I found I didn't seem to get the chance to read the map fully so was missing features in the circle.
Was within a few seconds of having overtaken all starters ahead of me. 20s off Burley, about 5 mins down on Adam. Good to see so many fellow NGOC out, sounds like there could be enthusiasm for some of my ideas...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/316646526
Have to hope for more ok runs like this if I stand any chance of holding off Mark (1-2 mins behind) and Joe (4 mins) on any of the days this weekend...
Tuesday May 21, 2013 #
Running 43:03 [3] 8.89 km (4:51 / km) +40m 4:44 / km
slept:5.0 weight:73.7kg shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 g
As BOK run a bit far away went to the Downs instead with the aim of improving some splits on Strava. Bumped into Tim L before I started and had a long chat with him. As he said something about Hiatt Baker being knocked down went down Parrys Lane and, naturally, had to put in a hard effort up Hollybush Lane to try and steal Ifor's KOM off him. Haven't got the pace on the flat to challenge the real runners on the other segments.
Downside to putting in the odd efforts early on was that I tired myself out completely - really am not feeling fit at the moment. Struggled around the last 4km enjoying being outside in the warm and sunshine.
Pushing up the numbers of ex-UBOC members out tonight, Ben Littlejohns said hello as he ran past me just before I left.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/316195752
Downside to putting in the odd efforts early on was that I tired myself out completely - really am not feeling fit at the moment. Struggled around the last 4km enjoying being outside in the warm and sunshine.
Pushing up the numbers of ex-UBOC members out tonight, Ben Littlejohns said hello as he ran past me just before I left.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/316195752
Sunday May 19, 2013 #
Orienteering race (BKO Bloom Wood) 57:46 [3] 8.32 km (6:57 / km) +220m 6:08 / km
slept:5.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
BKO regional at Bloom Wood. 7.1km blue course.
After a lot of faffing around in the start box trying to fix the broken strap on my hired emit card ended up starting two minutes ahead of Colin Dickson so had the aim of holding on to him when he overtook me.
Started out ok but could definitely feel yesterday in my legs and so the pace was slow. No real mistakes until 7 where I was possibly a contour too low and this was where Colin caught me. Took his route through the brambles rather than around to 8 but was being so careful with my footings that he got well ahead. Last I saw of him was him disappearing into the green on leg 9-10.
Without such expert help I made a huge mess of 10. Not at all sure how the mapper distinguished forest walk with and without undergrowth but there was no obvious difference on the ground. Not nice. Bearing off, ended up on the path to the north and had to go back in. Should have been an indistinct path but I didn't find it so resorted to looking everywhere until I found the control. 11 was even harder, still in the horrible bit. Luckily in my struggles I found control 6 and worked from that.
With these mistakes, the person who started a minute ahead of me had caught me so ran hard down to 12. Ankle not happy. Contouring 13-14 was a bit rough but I seemed to lose a lot of height at the end and found a different control on a knoll.
15 was a bit of a disaster. Needed to find the ride junction but couldn't see any. Assumed that, as per the rest of the map, the big distinct mapped rides were not distinct on the ground so carried on. After a while of finding nothing worked out by elimination that I had gone 400 yards too far up the hill and took a sharp turn south and found it. 2.5 mins lost but at least loads of other people thought my NGOC top made me infallible and followed me the wrong way.
16 dodgy map then it was just running all the way to the finish. Think I lost 5 mins overall. Was 6th/53 and just 7 mins off the lead when I left.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/314972505
After a lot of faffing around in the start box trying to fix the broken strap on my hired emit card ended up starting two minutes ahead of Colin Dickson so had the aim of holding on to him when he overtook me.
Started out ok but could definitely feel yesterday in my legs and so the pace was slow. No real mistakes until 7 where I was possibly a contour too low and this was where Colin caught me. Took his route through the brambles rather than around to 8 but was being so careful with my footings that he got well ahead. Last I saw of him was him disappearing into the green on leg 9-10.
Without such expert help I made a huge mess of 10. Not at all sure how the mapper distinguished forest walk with and without undergrowth but there was no obvious difference on the ground. Not nice. Bearing off, ended up on the path to the north and had to go back in. Should have been an indistinct path but I didn't find it so resorted to looking everywhere until I found the control. 11 was even harder, still in the horrible bit. Luckily in my struggles I found control 6 and worked from that.
With these mistakes, the person who started a minute ahead of me had caught me so ran hard down to 12. Ankle not happy. Contouring 13-14 was a bit rough but I seemed to lose a lot of height at the end and found a different control on a knoll.
15 was a bit of a disaster. Needed to find the ride junction but couldn't see any. Assumed that, as per the rest of the map, the big distinct mapped rides were not distinct on the ground so carried on. After a while of finding nothing worked out by elimination that I had gone 400 yards too far up the hill and took a sharp turn south and found it. 2.5 mins lost but at least loads of other people thought my NGOC top made me infallible and followed me the wrong way.
16 dodgy map then it was just running all the way to the finish. Think I lost 5 mins overall. Was 6th/53 and just 7 mins off the lead when I left.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/314972505