Training Log Archive: mikeyA

Recovery loop round the crags with Dan and Tam before gym and then back home afterwards.

Endless amounts of hurdle mobility, disc mobility with the damn OH squats that I can get down to about a 10 degree knee bend with followed by med-ball slams, push-down abs and plank.

Up. Didn't Garmin it so a guess.

Did alright again. Physically didn't feel great for the first half. Quite an effort for pretty much any gradient and it wasn't helped by the very slippy ground although I don't think I was the only one with this issue. Several times I didn't navigate properly and ended up running to several gaffles before mine (1, 2, 12) maybe losing 30 seconds on each of them. Not ideal but through spectator saw Nathan and Ali just up the hill ahead and was able to finish strongly and able to just catch Ali so finished as second EUOC team, 2 seconds behind Nathan. Team finished 5th after good runs from Mark and Tam. Sasha crushed it, taking a minute 30 of everyone to catch Willy and win it for EUOC! Personal analysis is that I'm not especially good at running with other people and am waaay to easily distracted by them as was shown by both today and a little bit yesterday with Will. Never really liked first leg for this reason.

Results - http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Event: BUCS Individual/Relay Championships
 

Up.

Started off well, maybe missing 2 by 15 seconds or so by drifting too far right. Long leg to 6 I decided to go straight along which turned out to not be a great route mainly due to the conditions. Most of the paths reminded me of BUCs XC and I spent most of the leg slipping all over the place. Got stuck in the steep earth bank bit in the middle of the leg due to it being neck deep brambles. Lost another 30 seconds in the circle by not being accurate enough with my compass. Total lost was 3 minutes to Conor who just smashed it round the road. Caught by Will here too and so started to run with him. 7 was weird came out way too high up the re-entrant and seemed to have to run along way down it to the flag. All my effort through to 12 was spent desperately hanging onto Will. He'd dropped me by enough that I couldn't see him out of 12 and poor direction out the control led to me losing time on 13 and being fully dropped. Caught him again at 15 when he messed up. Good through to 21 where I guess tiredness got to me and I got quite confused near the circle and lost another half a minute stupidly. Overall ~5 minutes lost. Not displeased with this but not happy either. Feel like this could have been a very good run with my running speed being OK but my nav just wasn't good enough. I'm never going to be the quickest runner in the field so I feel like to perform well I have to be making no more than 2 minutes worth of errors total and at the moment this kind of run with around 5 ish minutes worth of mistakes is about average for me.

Results - http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Routegadget - http://www.bok.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#112&cour...

Down.

SSS. Very nice.

Up.

FWTN somewhere miles away which I happily got a lift to with Conor. Generally pretty good except a few hesitations and 12 where my direction in the trees was poor and came out the other side too early on and so ran a long way round. Overall a very enjoyable course except for the ice. Only fell due to ice once and wasn't too bad. Later on however slipped on an icy tree root and fell heavily onto said tree root on my right leg. Now pretty sore and was limping back from the car to my flat. Very much hoping it will sort itself out tomorrow.

Cut down EUOC long run. Meadows, seat, killing fields, meadows. Tried to limit the amount of climb.

Easy this week for BUCs.