Training Log Archive: Chas

JK Day 2, Middle Distance, Windmill Hill.
M55L, 5.4km 175m.
Mostly good but some time lost at #7, #13 and #14.
#7 I chose the western crossing point but didn't execute the route to it very well and got caught in the peninsular between the ponds in the canal. -30s maybe.
#13 in oxygen debt at the top of the climb I got confused and turned left instead of right. Corrected quickly but probably another 30s binned.
#14 I got onto the spur north of the correct one. Realised pretty quickly so only lost roughly another 30s.
Struggling on the hills in the heat (24 degrees) but I guess it was the same for everyone. Happy to take the win and pleased for Phil to finish 2nd. Tomorrow is another day. 10km will seem a long way in this temperature.
RG: https://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#78&course=17...

Some token warming up and jog to start.

C • "Struggling on the hills in the heat (24 degrees)" 2

Event: JK 2019
 

Usual JK Sprint rest day.
Quite worried for tomorrow given all the EMIT issues today.

Back from Huddersfield Honda having dropped car off for it's service. Careful not to push too hard.

Jog around the block in opposite direction to Tuesday.

Off to watch some grown men kicking a ball about.

Golf. Pro's mid week comp. 34 Stableford points (16/18).

Garage circuits. Brought forward a day as I won't have time tomorrow.

Leg stretcher around the block.

CLARO event, Dob Park and Snowden Crags.
Brown course, 6.4km 260m.
Had a long wait for a map because CLARO had only printed 15 Brown maps! The new extension was a little disappointing. A few interesting crags but the mapping didn't do it justice (e.g. the runnability mapping was the wrong way round: fast dead bracken mapped as walk, waist high heather as fast run). I hadn't run at Dob Park before and found it a reasonably interesting (if tough) area. So, all in all, just about worth the trip.
Because of the wait for maps there was a group of half a dozen of us all going off at one minute intervals at the end of the start block. I had Andy Thorpe behind me and was quite pleased to hold him off despite the high visibility over the first 5 controls. I really only lost time on #8 where I was too far right and had to bail out to the path to relocate. No more than a minute binned. Happy enough with that and, most importantly, still in one piece for the JK.
4th place, 7 mins down on Aidan Rigby. Results:
http://www.claro-orienteering.org.uk/results/dobpa...
RG: https://www.claro.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#36&course...

Some jogging around to keep warm whilst waiting for re-cycled maps and a brisker run to the far start.