Training Log Archive: Jay-T

Event: Regional Event
 

Treeton Short Brown
Pretty clean today; I think that the benefits of having visited several (around half) of the controls last night outweighed the drawback that I was feeling tired.
#1 Same as yesterday and #2 was pretty much on the path, so had already planned the eastern wood upon reaching it.
Bearing to #3, #4 obvious.
#5 Forced west by brambles (10s).
#6 Visible from lower path.
#7 Climbed when I should have stuck to the contour (15s).
#8 North from thickets, #9 thicket visible.
#10 Went straight on a bearing and hit it perfectly. Not sure whether this was the quickest route, however.
#11 Seemed closer to small path but ok.
#12 Used small thicket on path.
#13 Simple.
#14 Went across to the parking track to avoid marsh. Not much in it time-wise I'd guess.
#15 Back through start, #16 took path to the right of the line.
#17 Dropped low and climbed back up into it. Maintaining height would have saved a little (15s).
#18 Same as yesterday (1s slower today!)
#19 Same leg, but went round to the left today. However, still had to cross the fence so not really a better route choice as thought. I was quicker than yesterday but lost a little nonetheless (10s).
Fairly uninspiring last loop - two controls used more than once, one LEG repeated and all controls used yesterday. Just tried to keep going.

2nd, 1min down on Al Buckley today. Still ahead of some decent names (and faster runners too).

More thought needs to be put into these night / day combinations. People who run both are at an advantage, and to be honest I would much prefer a fresh(er) challenge the next day. I understand that the idea is to reduce volunteer effort, but controls could fairly easily be moved to different features without too much effort one would have thought.

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

C • I agree 1

Event: YHOA Night League
 

SYO Night Treeton
Unsure what I did differently tonight, but it ended up being a good result compared with the other competitors present. This fact, however, does suggest it was a bit of a fluke.
Still, fastest on 12 out of the 18 splits so was evidently moving fairly well for some reason.
#1 and #2 straightforward. #3 tried to pick up the indistinct path but must have been too far south as I passed close to the shelter thing. Undergrowth was ok. Dithered when reaching the path (turned right initially) but still fastest split so must have worked well up the hill (20s).
Straight to #4.
#5 and #6 seemed to be on unnecessarily trivial features (large thickets adjacent to paths - though quite a few had trouble here).
#7 Changed my initial plan and went safe round the paths to the south.
#8 Switched off here; simplified the leg to 'run along the lower path and shine your light to the right'. Unfortunately the contouring path was deceptively long and I decided I had overshot just before the control. Turned back, even crossing the small path before finally looking at my compass and realising that I hadn't gone far enough initially... (2mins).
#9, #10 easy via paths. Surprised to win these pure running legs.
#11 Went straight but it was a bit grotty. Left would have been better (15s).
#12 Straight through the grotty wood, indistinct path to open, straight to marshy depression (my attack point!) then carefully in.
#13, #14, #15 Made sure I slowed down and used my compass.
#16 Switched off again as it was just a run around the lake back. Nearly ran into the lake east of #11, then started looking a little early (30s).
#17 Went in a little early to make sure. Led Alun Powell in from the opposite direction.
F Back down to the lower path.

1st. 6min clear of Al Buckley, 8min in front of Andy Preston and Alun Powell. 12min on Parkino and 15min on Zach Field.

Had to get that logged as I can't see it happening ever again, certainly not in the day (including tomorrow!)

http://www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk/event/2...

Away match vs Wrenthorpe A playing with Sean.
Friday, so Alan couldn't make it. Shame, as before the match the opposition were 2nd in the league (us 4th), and victory by any margin would have sent us top.
Close first game vs their 3rd pair; we triumphed 21-20 (after having to replay the final point because I moved before the opposition served?) Unfortunately we then started making mistakes and giving away a lot of points to meekly surrender the rubber.
Poor play continued to give up the rubber vs the 2nd pair. Improved against the 1st pair, but they proved too strong.
The rest of the games went almost exactly as I called it - Brent / Tom picking up 3 and Mick / Sam (a little off colour) 1.
Overall 5-4 loss not a disaster, but felt we let the team down a little. Confident that if Alan had played we would have picked up at least 1.
Opposition now top; us 2nd trailing by 5 points, but only 1 point ahead of the 3rd placed team who have a game in hand.

No rain all day, got to within 10min of the club and it poured... and didn't stop. That'll be no tennis again.
Included singles vs Alan; won 21-12 .
Left hamstring / glute tight as standard but both calves also twinging a little threatening cramp. Better warm-up needed perhaps.
Away match on Friday vs 2nd placed team.

Orchestrating.

Wet; no tennis.

My body did a good job of fighting off a full illness over the holiday, but for most of the time I was a little under the weather. Certainly sneezing and snivelling a lot. Some relief in pain from back / hamstring from less enforced extended sitting, although muscles still very tight and, alas, only a temporary reprieve I fear...