Training Log Archive: mikeyA

Event: JK 2016
 

Up. Didn't do too much, few hard sprints and a lot of stretching. Felt like I was getting a stitch that thankfully disappeared in the start boxes somewhere.

JK Day 1 - Sprint - Leeds University
Plenty of geeking had gone into this so I was pretty confident with all the levels and underpasses so felt pretty confident. Also by looking around the arena we'd worked out where #1 was and #10, #11 and #12 around spectator. We'd also worked out that this was where the map turnover occurred. On the way to #1 I'd worked out where #2 was having seen the circle and checked the descriptions so then I'd pretty much got the route for it sorted leaving #1, allowing me to look ahead and try to spot some tricky legs coming up which there didn't seem too many of. Fine till #4 where there was a slight hesitation checking descriptions to confirm it was up the steps. #5 I think I lost 4 seconds by coming back down the stairs and under looking at Tim's split who went through #12. Possibly should have planned ahead better coming into #4 but I'd just seen Barber going under so decided to follow. Also I was more worried about the exact location of #4 than my route out to #5. Picked the level #7 was on well, using the pop-out again. #10 I just picked a route north out of #9 on what I thought was a 50/50 but I've lost 3/4 seconds on distance. Kept navigationaly ahead of myself well through until #14. Can't remember why but on #14 I pretty much stopped dead on the steps to the right. I think I possibly lost contact with where I was and hesitated losing me 3/4 seconds. #16 I again did the same thing next to the pop-out again losing 3/4 seconds. #19 I've lost 5 seconds on running speed and at the end of the leg I ran all the way around a green patch when it would have been better to run past and hop a fence. #20 3/4 seconds lost coming north out of #19 again. So overall nothing more than 5 seconds lost on a leg and maybe a total of 15 seconds lost which I can't complain about. This is possibly my best result ever at a major event and an amazing way to start the weekend off! The map geeking was so important especially on this area as the levels would have been very confusing without it. Things I did well was planning ahead and decisiveness in picking routes. Things to possibly improve on would be keeping slightly better contact and try and avoid the hesitations.

Results - http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Routegadget - http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#59&course...

C • Nice one Mikey 2

Down. Again minimal.

Easy round the meadows with Will, Ali, Bash and Tam and then joined by Katie later on. Drills occured towards then end. lAbsolutely gorgeous day allowing me to load up on the Vit D. Felt AMAZING.

Easy round the bog and killing fields with Tim, Ali and Raptor before a performance enhancing sauna and stretch. Very nice and my calves needed the rolling.

Up round the meadows plus drills with Ali.

800, 600, 400, 300, 200 with the rest decreasing by 30 seconds each time starting at 3 minutes. Times; 2.36, 1.59, 1.17, 57, 34. Therefore mpk's were; 3:16, 3:17, 3:16, 3:09, 2:48. Not quite the decreasing speeds you want on this kind of session but nearly? Right?

Down with 6 sets of strides in the middle.

Was working and completely forgot about gym, oops.

Up out to KB.

Campus style sprint race around Kings Buildings which is as technically similar to Leeds Uni as we can get. The idea for this was to make it like it will be next week and so the winning time was planned to be similar, Tim drew up a start list and we even had a 3 minute call up. Pretty clean race. Messed about at #6 but the map was wrong as we went and made sure afterwards, I think everyone lost some time here. Picked a decent route on the longer leg to #8. Possibly the wrong way around the building to #18, I think going out of #17 south would have been best. Came the wrong way out of #22, back on myself would be quicker and then round the south of the building and then fine to the finish. Was caught a minute by Jonny at #24 so pretty pleased to have held him off for that long. Also I think I was just about the fastest out the other boys so a pretty nice confidence boost knowing that I can do alright with a clean run next Friday :)

2dReRun - http://3drerun.worldofo.com/2d/index.php?submit=Op...

Down inspecting #6 and back home.