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Sunday Oct 15, 2017 #
1 PM
Running - off road race (Fell Relays) 2:00:10 [5] 13.14 km (9:09 / km) +1180m 6:19 / km
slept:0.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Blk/Gn2
Crap night's sleep - one guy in the room kept getting up and going in and out every couple of hours, and snoring incredibly loudly (could hear through ear plugs) when in the room.
Weather better than expected. Pretty windy, but warm and fog was only down on the very top. Didn't rain beyond a few spots.
Leg 3 (navigation). The map advertised as 11.2km with 850m climb but not sure how this was calculated as I did over 300m more climb. Possibly it was intended that runners were expected to contour around Moel Eilio and jump the fence where there was no permitted crossing (as, apparently many teams did...) rather than a fairly tedious 300m climb to the only marked crossing at the very top, only to turn around a lose it immediately on the other side!
Despite not feeling strong, think Martyn and I had a good run. Went out in a fairly poor position - c.150th, and just 2 mins ahead of the mass start. Planned most of the routes whilst heading out on the road, and had performed our first overtake before end of the taped section. By CP1 had gained 8 places, 15 by CP2 (arguably there was some route choice here, as ours was shorter than the others!), and then another 7 or 8 teams on the big climb.
Once on the top was in the fog and wind was incredibly strong. Got down to 3 ok, and identified a big train of people ahead going too far south. We cut left (but not by enough!) to overtake all, including "traitor" Sasha who had a 10 min headstart :-)
Route to 4 required some bravery, and I was hoping to have someone ahead to lead us down through the crags - but they were all wimps so we had to decide when to turn off the edge into the fog. Was actually quite nice in the end - very steep, slippery to a degree, but short cut grass. Still lost place to most of the group we'd just overtaken.
Along the bottom through the bogs was a case of catching up, with the help of the last sharp climb we did, and got some more by CP6 and descent to the finish. Had expected the drop down to be a nightmare based on stories of finishers, but it was mostly just very boggy. Only places we lost going down were the two teams we overtook *after* CP6 - which is a success for me :-)
Shame not to break 2 hours, but think we had a pretty good run and splits will be interesting. Take out all who cheated on 2-3 and might look better. In all think we overtook 30 teams :-)
Good fun - despite some reservations beforehand. Martyn was a good partner and helped me push harder than I would have on my own. Glad I came.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1231683379
Results show us 76th/180 on the leg. I suspect if you remove the cheaters or equalise in some other way (they gained at least 10 mins...) we'd have been in to top third :-)
Weather better than expected. Pretty windy, but warm and fog was only down on the very top. Didn't rain beyond a few spots.
Leg 3 (navigation). The map advertised as 11.2km with 850m climb but not sure how this was calculated as I did over 300m more climb. Possibly it was intended that runners were expected to contour around Moel Eilio and jump the fence where there was no permitted crossing (as, apparently many teams did...) rather than a fairly tedious 300m climb to the only marked crossing at the very top, only to turn around a lose it immediately on the other side!
Despite not feeling strong, think Martyn and I had a good run. Went out in a fairly poor position - c.150th, and just 2 mins ahead of the mass start. Planned most of the routes whilst heading out on the road, and had performed our first overtake before end of the taped section. By CP1 had gained 8 places, 15 by CP2 (arguably there was some route choice here, as ours was shorter than the others!), and then another 7 or 8 teams on the big climb.
Once on the top was in the fog and wind was incredibly strong. Got down to 3 ok, and identified a big train of people ahead going too far south. We cut left (but not by enough!) to overtake all, including "traitor" Sasha who had a 10 min headstart :-)
Route to 4 required some bravery, and I was hoping to have someone ahead to lead us down through the crags - but they were all wimps so we had to decide when to turn off the edge into the fog. Was actually quite nice in the end - very steep, slippery to a degree, but short cut grass. Still lost place to most of the group we'd just overtaken.
Along the bottom through the bogs was a case of catching up, with the help of the last sharp climb we did, and got some more by CP6 and descent to the finish. Had expected the drop down to be a nightmare based on stories of finishers, but it was mostly just very boggy. Only places we lost going down were the two teams we overtook *after* CP6 - which is a success for me :-)
Shame not to break 2 hours, but think we had a pretty good run and splits will be interesting. Take out all who cheated on 2-3 and might look better. In all think we overtook 30 teams :-)
Good fun - despite some reservations beforehand. Martyn was a good partner and helped me push harder than I would have on my own. Glad I came.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1231683379
Results show us 76th/180 on the leg. I suspect if you remove the cheaters or equalise in some other way (they gained at least 10 mins...) we'd have been in to top third :-)
Saturday Oct 14, 2017 #
Event: NGOC League 10
12 PM
Orienteering race (NGOC Danby Lodge) 1:05:25 [3] 8.43 km (7:46 / km) +300m 6:35 / km
slept:5.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Blk/Gn2
NGOC League at Danby Lodge. Huge turnout again - 178!
First time actually orienteering since the SHIs, and with calves not happy on Tuesday didn't want to do any damage so took it easy when it felt hard. Also pretty ankle-unfriendly so slow in terrain.
No real mistakes apart from turning a path too early for 2 - and not realising quite what I'd done until going through the same area again on leg to 12.
Think I took the best routes the rest of the time - just at a steady pace. Reasonably quick to the finish.
Followed with 4 hour drive up to North Wales, after I managed to get away from people who kept wanting to talk to me...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1230262716
First time actually orienteering since the SHIs, and with calves not happy on Tuesday didn't want to do any damage so took it easy when it felt hard. Also pretty ankle-unfriendly so slow in terrain.
No real mistakes apart from turning a path too early for 2 - and not realising quite what I'd done until going through the same area again on leg to 12.
Think I took the best routes the rest of the time - just at a steady pace. Reasonably quick to the finish.
Followed with 4 hour drive up to North Wales, after I managed to get away from people who kept wanting to talk to me...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1230262716
Thursday Oct 12, 2017 #
6 PM
Running - off road intervals 34:27 [5] 6.1 km (5:39 / km) +105m 5:12 / km
slept:5.0 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Blk/Gn1
Picked up "fixed" car from garage. 2 year warranty on the new clutch and flywheel - which will also pay for other damage caused should it fail. Invoking it first thing tomorrow morning as strong smell of burning clutch, making worrying amounts of louder clatter than before, and the pedal doesn't always come back when I take my foot off it :-(
Stopped off at Risca leisure centre to get some off road in. 16x 1 min with, mostly, 30s rest in between. First intervals I've done in a long time so hard. Pretty wet and muddy underfoot.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1227100163
Stopped off at Risca leisure centre to get some off road in. 16x 1 min with, mostly, 30s rest in between. First intervals I've done in a long time so hard. Pretty wet and muddy underfoot.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1227100163
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017 #
Note
(rest day)
All being well should be able to pick up fixed car tomorrow. Strictly no more road running until after the relays so now on a rest day. Hopefully be able to do a couple of laps of fields in Rogerstone or at Risca leisure centre tomorrow afternoon to help keep the legs turning.
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017 #
6 PM
Running - off road (Sugar Loaf) 1:07:49 [3] 8.12 km (8:21 / km) +510m 6:21 / km
slept:0.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Dayglo/Blk
Left work at lunchtime feeling very tired as the hotel was a bit disappointing and barely got any sleep at all. Long train journey and Stanedge tunnel made me feel quite drowsy...
Picked up from Abergavenny station so avoided the nightmare traffic chaos around the M4 - but we started 20 mins late as the Cardiff lot weren't so lucky.
Followed the race route to the top (which was windy) then came straight back as short of time.
Calf went from being tight early on, to uncomfortable, to in pain as we went up the cone - had to stop 4 times to stretch it. Sunday is still a long time away and 10 hrs sat on trains over last 2 days really won't have helped - but not really up for the Fell Relays now, sadly I'm stuck with it as there's no reserves left!
Nice to be off road. Not nice that all the road running has broken me.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1224365945
Picked up from Abergavenny station so avoided the nightmare traffic chaos around the M4 - but we started 20 mins late as the Cardiff lot weren't so lucky.
Followed the race route to the top (which was windy) then came straight back as short of time.
Calf went from being tight early on, to uncomfortable, to in pain as we went up the cone - had to stop 4 times to stretch it. Sunday is still a long time away and 10 hrs sat on trains over last 2 days really won't have helped - but not really up for the Fell Relays now, sadly I'm stuck with it as there's no reserves left!
Nice to be off road. Not nice that all the road running has broken me.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1224365945
Monday Oct 9, 2017 #
6 AM
Note
(rest day)
Travelling to MDC run, via Manchester and York...
Seems i have got lucky with seats and have about 2 ft legroom both ways so can do a bit of stretching.
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Picked the right day for it! My usual train home broke down so would have taken getting on for 2 hours to get home - *almost* as long as it *should* from York. Got to love GWR!!!
Seems i have got lucky with seats and have about 2 ft legroom both ways so can do a bit of stretching.
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Picked the right day for it! My usual train home broke down so would have taken getting on for 2 hours to get home - *almost* as long as it *should* from York. Got to love GWR!!!