Training Log Archive: mikeyA

Event: BUCS - British Universities & Colleges Sport Championships
 

Reasonable warm up.

Not really the race I was hoping for. Going well until #4 running reasonably. Poor route on #5 by going straight and never found the path I was looking for (must have run right over it) meant I was super hesitant near the circle and ended up finding it by a fair amount of luck. #6 was then the most idiotic mistake of my life. Actually did the leg perfectly and saw the control however for whatever stupid reason I decided it wasn't mine and that I was too low and so ran off up the hill having literally been a meter away from it. Why I didn't even read the code who knows? After a minute of crawling up the hill I heard Joe go through behind me which made me finally come to my senses. Bit deflated after this and couldn't push as i needed to up the hill to #7 or through the rocks for the rest of the loop in the forest. No real misses in there just super slow and taking rather wiggly lines. Felly came through me at #12 and I got insta-dropped by him on the moor and then Ali came through later as well when I made another idiotic mistake by running straight past #19. Feel like this could have been a lot better if I just thought about what I was doing for parts of it instead of being an idiot. I've said idiot an awful lot there...

Results - https://www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk/event/...
Routegadget - http://www.syo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#142&cour...

C • #6 4

Easy meadows with Jack and Ewan before lidl on the way home. Watch glitched so had to estimate the distance.

Out to Braids via KB.

Braids FWTN. Good fun apart from when I got stuck in gorse for about 5 minutes after not being able to see the track through it. Cruised round never going too hard.

Down back home with Ali.

To DVC and then with the long run group through the hospital towards B&B. Turned home at the start of Blackford.

Up and down.

4 x 800m [2 min] on the meadows. I am still suitably slow. Went off far too hard on the first lap and suffered for the rest. Times 2.25, 2.31, 2.40, 2.45. Oops haha.

To St Leonards an then onto the treadmill for Beth again and then home.

Up.

CSC qualifier at Tentsmuir. Interesting bit of forest with very thin strips of contour detail and then blocks of flat 'white' forest in between. A lot of the route choice was just a bit random in my opinion as it was whether you run round the path or cut straight through these blocks. The runnability of said blocks seemed to vary massively and so got a bit random as to whether it was good to go straight or not. For example on 6 I went pretty much straight whereas Tim (admittedly running much faster but still) went round the paths and took nearly 2 minutes out of me despite me not missing it at all. Aside from that made a really stupid error at 14 where I ran round the back of it and then got annoyed as i can't navigate and haven't been able to for a while it seems.

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