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Training Log Archive: andypat

In the 7 days ending Jul 17, 2016:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Orienteering	7	4:57:28	24.3	(12:14)	39.11	(7:36)	455
tennis	1	2:00:00
Running	1	57:27	5.12	(11:13)	8.24	(6:58)	89
gym	1	45:00
Total	10	8:39:55	29.42		47.35		544

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Sunday Jul 17, 2016 #

11 AM

Orienteering race 24:47 [4] 4.0 km (6:12 / km)

WRE at Grangemouth. Ran M Open.
Orienteered well. Good courses and good area.
Fast with multiple small micrareas.

Hesitation at 7 when passed by Steve and lost touch with map breifly and minor confusion at 24 due to red line in circle. Thought it was a printing error initiall but it was a microartificial fence.

(With hindsight maybe the map could just have been amended to show a continuous fence? But a minor criticism of a great course)

Managed sub 25min which was one goal for the weekend. TBH legs were shot from about halfway - its been a hard 4 days!

C • Gap between fences 2

Saturday Jul 16, 2016 #

10 AM

Orienteering race 27:06 [4] 4.0 km (6:47 / km) +125m 5:52 / km

Hallglen east. Terrific race on really challenging sprint terrain.
PLeased to make very little in the way of obvious errors. Possibly my route to 3 was unneccessaryand a bit of hesitation at the changover as couldnt find 8 on the 2nd map. Find the overprinted numbers quite difficult to read even now.

Physically I lost a lot of time with the climb, which is an obvious lesson. But still happy enough with my performance. Outsmarted a few faster people at times on the course.

2 PM

Orienteering race 25:56 [4] 4.08 km (6:21 / km) +5m 6:19 / km

Hallglen West. Sprint Scotland - the race that didnt count. Misspunch.
The right race to mp in I suppose.

Not the best area of the week but planner tried to make the best of it. Map a bit messy around the chanhgeover with lots of criss crossing of lines esp around 15. My effort to simplify here was misplaced as I should have concnetrated more and ended up punching the wrong control.

My second error at a map changeover point of the day and a big learning point for me.

Otherwise thought I raced OK - probably slowed more by the long grass than the other competitors on my course though.

Friday Jul 15, 2016 #

12 PM

Orienteering (Session 1) 31:16 [4] 3.8 km (8:14 / km) +95m 7:19 / km

Stirling old town route choice session.

Tried to do route choice at each control but took between 10-20 seconds and made several mistakes. Far better to plan ahead - some routes need more than one look. This reinforced by MurrayStrain later that night!

1 PM

Orienteering (Session 2) 27:39 [4] 3.68 km (7:31 / km) +19m 7:19 / km

Stirling town centre. Rainy

3 PM

Orienteering (session 3 map 3) 9:30 [4] 1.66 km (5:43 / km)

Braehead minis sprint course

Orienteering (Session 3 map 2) 9:19 [4] 1.67 km (5:35 / km)

Braehead mini sprint session