Training Log Archive: Jay-T

Away match vs Manvers Park playing with Matt.

Drive back from Aberdeenshire not ideal prep. Played terribly for the first two vs James / Dave and Owain / Joe. Also broke another string. Improved a little vs James / Tom and took it to three but lost to 17 or so.

Overall 7-2 loss (Ryan / Alex and Sean / Nathan both beat James / Tom).

Relegation appears assured.

Event: Coull DNC Night O
 

Bit of a rush to get here in time. Slow jog up the hill and quick stretch but would have done more time permitting.

DNC MAROC Bogendreip (not Coull)

#1 Had a bearing, was following it, but then became distracted by the freezing marsh which we were immediately sent into. Drifted east [75]
#2 Tried to contour but lost height initially. Re-climbed around green but evidently did the same again; ending up in re-entrants NW of control. Mistakenly relocated as being in the gully to the NE of the control. After much running around with little idea eventually relocated from veg boundary corner to N of control [12m+]
#3 Took a bearing and found the control ok (!)
#4 Slightly west on bearing but spotted open then reflector [15]
#5 Drifted down hill from bearing immediately. Searched around before eventually relocating from #2. I was miles away anyway but would argue that this kind of control site is not suitable for use at night [4m 30s]
#6 Had been overtaken by a couple of people at #5; got ahead of them and found boulder attackpoint (with flag for short course verifying it was the mapped one) but then missed pit slightly low. Bounced off open beyond and found it after the others had got past again [2m 30s]
#7 Went via fence corner. Thought I took a bearing but must have simply followed extraction lane as miles too far north (seeing forest road beyond). Another random rock with nothing much to go off [3m]
#8 Missed low, bounced off wall beyond [2m]
#9 Ok! (But was it a fair control at night once more?)
#10 Correct route I think, just overshot at the end as veg mapping didn't make sense [60]

Very nearly last. Probably would have been had I not had some company for the latter half. My only consolation might be that most of the people there probably know the area rather better than I - particularly pertinent when some areas of the map have few features meaning that you've almost certainly visited those features as control sites on more than one occasion... Or is that grasping at straws?

Just about recovered from cold but left calf complaining in the latter half (lots of sitting driving and insufficient warm-up.

http://www.maroc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#189&ro...

Drive up to Peterhead. Another day off as still feeling a bit phlegmy.

Event: NWO SWOA Galoppen and ASO League Event
 

NWO West Woods

Cold marginally worse today and pretty tired after yesterday but one can't turn down orienteering!

Mostly good nav (other than negotiating the unmarked bramble masses) but unsurprisingly off the pace.

http://www.nwo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#14&cours...

Event: Western Night League
 

Putting out all the controls plus some signs, tape etc. Visibility very high.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/1028700933

Collecting in the distant controls. Visibility very low.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/1028701006

Event prep.

Thanks London. Haven't been sufficiently unwell to log it here for over 2 years though which is good I suppose.