Training Log Archive: Jay-T

Tagging at SPines. Very tired legs.

Event: Midlands Championships (UKOL)
 

Checking controls on Budby

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More checking plus hanging warm-up kites.

Grippling a few controls and to / around / back from the start.

Collecting on Budby. Dropped an SI box but managed to find it.

Back with kites once Sludo had managed to find me.

Event: British Night Championships (UKOL)
 

Spent around 3 hours putting out controls on Budby Heath in preparation for tomorrow. Trudging. Fortunately Sludo let me off doing any in the central enclosures.

British Nights Cademan & Thringstone

Main thing I was worried about beforehand was getting eating right - always difficult with a 7pm start and an anticipated 90min run. Had a chicken and bacon pasta around 4pm which seemed to work - few minor grumbles but no major issues.

Had the first start which was quite cool - running off into an empty forest. Didn't get carried away and picked up the path to #1 and bounced off the river to #2. Then had the fastest split to #3 (!) Kept going in that vein - using paths where possible and checking compass / big features to ensure I was heading in the right general direction. This meant I corrected quickly when I did stray onto the wrong path (e.g. en-route to #6 [15] and #9 [20]). Went straight-ish towards the end of the leg on #10 which lost me a little [15] then again had to backtrack after missing a junction to #11 [15]
#12 Took the southern path but missed a couple of turns en-route and ended up hacking through a little. Then the path was very muddy and slow. To compound matters I also had difficulty crossing the fence [60] First real loss that felt significant and looking behind me at the map change.
#13 Bit of faff finding where I was again then in order to avoid muddy path chose southern route but got on the eastern path in error [30]
#17 At the time thought GG came past here, but turns out it was an earlier part of the course crossing over, so actually hadn't been caught.
#19 Bit of path hesitation as it didn't make sense initially [15]
#23 Ended up on road, oops [15]
#27 Lost path briefly (assuming train of runners going to boulder in open to west were actually on the path), but then found it again [15]
#30 Overshot path briefly (distracted by some runners having a loud conversation about M21L?) [15]
#31 Seemed to be more paths than shown. Used contours to locate flag [20]
#35 Brief attempt to cross into OOB field as no longer navigating [10]

Keeping it relatively clean was obviously the way to go - helped by some big errors / injuries from / by the better runners slotted into 4th place! (Just don't mention how far down on GG) ;)

http://www.leioc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/index.php#1...

Decent knock with John G - quite hard work. Some complaints from achilles area.

Away Match vs Honeywell A playing with Matt

Fellow strugglers but both teams are going down anyway so not as crucial as it might have been. Missing a couple of players (and our best play) we narrowly lost out.
Ryan / Louis 2, Mick / Sean 1, Matt / Me 1.

Overall 5-4 loss.

Bit more rest before the weekend with this lingering illness won't do any harm. Just for a change did some more stretching plus a little rolling.

Couldn't turn down first chance for tennis this year :D

Match on Friday to get my eye in for. Played ok to be honest.

Orch. Felt sniffles coming on last night, didn't want to believe it... Should be ok for the weekend.