Training Log Archive: Chas

Tomintoul loop with Louise. Detour to the Glenlivet cafe for lunch. She got to ride my bike whilst I rode Mikey's with walking shoes and no cleats. Best weather of the week.

INVOC Schools event, Culloden Woods.
Green course, 4.8km 85m.
Another spikey Scottish forest. Better than anticipated except for the area around #10. Made the mistake of not taking the path route to this control, otherwise clean.
Achilles sore again despite not running full pace.
Results : http://www.invoc.org.uk/results/2019/Culloden_2905...

C • culloden... 3

Back to base from the Cairngorm ski area.

East end of Culbin taking in some of my course from BOC 2008.

Got lost in the usual light green bit.

Achilles update :
It wasn't good on Saturday. OK to start with but sore after about half an hour. Not ideal then driving for 4 hours instead of warming down. Settling down since then but aware of it, particularly first thing in the morning. Probably not idea running again today but I don't often get the opportunity to visit Culbin. Sore again now but no worse than it has been recently. Will try to keep to alternate days for running. Will be easier once back in the normal routine next week.

Loop up to Tomintoul from our accommodation at Glenlivet. Dry enough to tempt me out but wet after half an hour.

Event: Scottish Champs
 

Scottish Champs, Dalbeattie Forest.
M55L 6.4km 160m.
Going OK as far as #11 but not so good after that. Worst case was #16. This 300m leg took me 9 minutes. Just couldn't make any sense of the map in the circle and eventually bailed out to relocate. At least 6 mins binned. #14 felt nearly as bad at the time but splits suggest that I only lost a small amount of time despite bailing out to the track to relocate. 55 mins was definitely possible but everyone else lost lots of time as well so I still took the win.
Really enjoyed the challenge which was made much harder by the rain and dark green forest.
Results:
https://www.scottish-orienteering.org/documents/re...
RG: (GPS not very accurate): https://www.solway.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#68&c...

Edit: results subject to protest. #5 in wrong place so Bilbo may be the official winner. Not sure that was the biggest issue with the course....

Edit (2): I have a short memory. Only 2 years ago I questioned whether to bother with the Scottish Champs after a control was misplaced. To have the same problem only two years later isn't good. No one bothered with a protest in 2017. Perhaps we need to protest more often if we want things to improve? Or maybe not.....
BTW removing a split shouldn't be allowed. Either the results should stand or the course be voided. In this case I'm in favour of the results left as they were. It seemed pretty obvious to me where the misplaced control would be having checked the correct location so time loss was minimal. There were far larger chunks of time being lost elsewhere due to inadequacies with the map.

Edit (3): 2nd, 4 mins down on Bilbo. Didn't deserve to win after my massive blow out on #16 I guess.

Golf with Andy and Roy. 22 Stableford points (14/8).
Time for a break from golf.

Same as Tuesday. Feeling a bit more sprightly today. Unfortunately Achilles more niggly than Tuesday. Ice after.

Golf with Andy and Roy. 30 Stableford points (17/13).