Training Log Archive: Chas

Golf. Pro's mid week comp. 29 Stableford points (15/14).
Unsurprisingly not at my best. Home at 0430 this morning and feeling knackered. Played better than yesterday still.

Irish Relay Champs, Finner Sands.
Middle leg of 12 point handicap relay with Nick L on 1st and Arun on 3rd. 4.0km.
Nice change to actually be able to run. Clean run but our course didn't really make the best use of the area so was largely quite straightforward.
RG: http://www.orienteering.ie/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.c...
(course H12-A)

Golf at Blacklion with Bill and Arun. 9 points from 9 holes. Not good.

Irish Long Distance Champs, Taunawully.
M50 6.9km 350m
This was much more of a challenge than yesterday. More technical area and better planning. Unfortunately I struggled to adapt to having to orienteer. I got caught out by the more generalised mapping style compared with Bilbo's Lake District maps. I overshot #1 (1 min), stopped short on #3 (2 mins) and was generally scrappy on the latter part of the course. Starting to struggle physically also. My race preparation will certainly be very different for BOC ;-)
Finished 2nd again, this time a massive 7 mins behind Bill.
RG: http://www.orienteering.ie/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.c...

Jogged some of the way to the start and back from finish.

Long Course 5 - Splits

Irish Middle Distance Champs, Barnsmore West, Donegal.
M50 4.5km 160m.
Another disappointingly planned race. Controls hung like beacons and one dodgily placed control. Lost a bit of time on the wrong control (#2): it was 2 contours higher than #1 rather than 2 lower as on the map. Struggled to convince myself to climb to the control visible higher up the hill. Otherwise pretty good.
Finished in 2nd about a minute down on Bill.
RG: http://www.orienteering.ie/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.c...

Jog back to the bus from the finish.

Middle 2 - Splits

Event: Irish Orienteering Championships
 

Irish Sprint Champs, Sligo Institute of Technology.
M50 2.4 km
This weekend is the same format as the JK. There I chose to sit out the Sprint to preserve my body for the 'proper ' orienteering. I thought about doing the same here but decided a leg stretcher after the long drive would be good.
Started a minute after Bill and a minute before Dirk Goossens which made my plan to cruise rather than race a bit more difficult. Still managed to run within myself. Dirk caught and passed me about 2/3's distance. Happy to finish in one piece.
The orienteering was very straightforward. I still managed to take the wrong route on the only real route choice (#3).
6th place. 1 and a bit mins down on Dirk.

Minimal warm up as we only just got there in time. Better warm down with Bill afterwards.

Sprint Course 3 - Splits

Huddersfield, canal towpath to Marsden, up Wessenden and back home via Goodbent Lodge.

Golf with Neil. 12 holes matchplay. Won 3 and 1. He was using the 'I've just bought £1k's worth of new clubs' excuse.

C • Excuses 2

Garage circuits.