Thursday May 15 |
 | Stick Fighten 1:50:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Saucony Hurricane |
| Did a bit with Seamus after college, then knock it about with Brian when shea went to study (shock).
Was such a nice evening i went out again to burn some energy |
Wednesday May 14 |
| Stick Fighten 35:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony Hurricane |
| Just knocked it about for a bit. De stressing and chilling out. Wasn't as warm today as it has been but sure- it'll be grand :) |
| Note | |
| (injured) |
| Climbed out of bed, stood up and fell, just fell- SMACK. My AT was on fire, couldn put weight on it at all. I forgot to warm down last night and i was paying for it now. I had to hop to the kitched for coffee and food, massaged it and rubbed the gel on it. Eventually warmed up and i was fine. But got a serious fright |
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| C • agghhh 3 |
Tuesday May 13 |
| Orienteering race (CNOC Summer Series) 56:44 [5]*** 11.14 km (5:06 / km) +290m 4:30 / km | |
| ahr:183 max:189 spiked:30/32c |
| Donade Summer series event. Seamus, Roar and myself decide on a mass start event running long before a map exchange to the middle.
Twas fast and furious. Roar took the first and second control, i then went and got ahead, putting distance between myself and shea while dropping roar. Got nerves at an unmarked ditch and shea got back up with me (9) he taught it was 10 and legged it off in a random direction, i didn have a clue what he was at so i just went for it again. I broke away again until 13 but going to 13 shea caught back a few seconds as he went straight threw a patch of brambles, i punched 13 and ran out to a track- sprinting as hard as i could, to my far right i see a flash of blue.... shea running straight for the control, i took off after him and got him by the control, at control i swallowed a few flys, running to 15 along the tracjk i tried to spit with no liquid i had no choice but to shove my fingers down my trout (si card an all), gagged up on the run, tatsed strangely of power gel/high5 :) Shea put a large distance between me on the road and i taught he had seriously dropped me. I contuine to run hard and before turning into the forest i looked behind me in case of a ruairi! After a 3 controls from map exchange i was running threw grotty forest and shea stumbles in from the left, we both run together until the map exchange (where eileen wouldn give us a map and told us to relax!! Shea got a map first and ran, i took a drink and watched him running around in circles, i decided i wouldn go until shea had decided. He went, i went straight after him, he messed up but i got the first control first. 2-4 was all along tracks, shea got ahead of me and pushed a seriously fast pace, he took 300m off of me, i kept hammering the pace but i wasn't gaining. I caught back up with him for5 controls until the next track leg when he dropped me. I then slipped up the next control, i came straigh off of the track junction and was confused as shea was running right at me! Lost a few seconds taking my barings then another 20 getting the the control and back to the track. On the way to the 4th last control my blood went cold- i saw Ruairi's massive frame beasting up the track. Threw fear i upped the pace. Making no mistakes to the last few control, as i come to the last control i saw shea almost at the finish punch, I finished on 1:01 down with roar only 5mins behind me. Fast running by ruairi as he was by himself for most of the coures! And last year he was almost 17mins off me for a 6km course! Thats serious speed he's gained.
You'd be surprised how your mind plays tricks on you. At more than one stage i swore i saw seamus running 100m to my left or right when i knew i was all alone!
Fast furious and serious fun.
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| Orienteering (Control picking) 28:27 [2]*** 2.29 km (12:25 / km) +70m 10:47 / km | |
| ahr:120 max:127 spiked:4/4c |
| Picking up controls- fun fun fun.
Someones gotta do it!! |
Monday May 12 |
| Stick Fighten 2:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics Gel-Nimbus 9 |
| Jaz, myself and shea training a different way :) twas quar hot out. Many nettles got destroyed in search of the slitors lol |
Sunday May 11 |
| Cycling 20:32 [3] 6.5 km (3:10 / km) +120m 2:54 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Hurricane |
| My dad KIA'ed my road bike so i took his.
My God. Talk about effort. Every pedal was like climbing a 25% hill.
I was sweatin by the traffic lights!
Made it to the curragh in 20mins. would have been faser running lol |
| Orienteering (Control Checking) 1:26:13 [3]*** 12.37 km (6:58 / km) +214m 6:25 / km | |
| ahr:149 max:179 spiked:24/24c shoes: Saucony Hurricane |
| RDF Irish Championships- Curragh West
I got out of bed early to go to the curragh to check controls- out of the goodness of my heart.
When i reached the start i mentioned to the comdt that i was checking controls to make sure they were in the right spot and we wouldn have a repeat of last year. He would have given me a kinder look if he walked in on me in bed with his wife. I gave the Pat a buzz and he sorted it all out and i went on my way. The first few controls were in the right spot. Then things got horrible. The next few were on the feature but the guys didn check the codes so wrong side etc. I was out the far side of the curragh and i arrived at the site to find the tag but no control so i buzzed the boss and i slightly began to freek as they guys were starting in under 10mins. Pat legged it over (about 6km) and he saw the control on the far side of the bush - i felt like an idiot. He spun me back and i checked the last few to make sure... The only control i didn check was number one. So i jogged out to it and came at the feature from above, landed in the rentrant. . . no control. by this time about 6 guys had gone through so i hunted a bit an found it on a spur 60m away... The comdt at the start wanted me to call pat to get permission to change it. I did so as after all, the comdt did attend a mapping course or something of that description in england- he clearly knew what he was on about.....clearly :) |
| Cycling 32:40 [3] 8.21 km (3:59 / km) +135m 3:41 / km | |
| ahr:136 max:157 shoes: Saucony Hurricane |
| Cycled around the camp, giving some guy a carry back to assembly. He over shot it by a k! Spun home with alot of effort! |
| Note | |
| (injured) |
| My left tendon is still abit dodgy. I'm popping the pain killers and deep heat etc. My right appears to have healed.
When i was running they felt fine but not perfect. Now that i'm home i can feel my left one rubbing(!). Meh, time heals all wounds :P |
| Stick Fighten 20:00 [2] | |
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| 20mins break from study |
Saturday May 10 |
| Stick Fighten 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Knocked about with kev- nothing serious. |
Kildare, Ireland
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