Training Log Archive: Nathan

Post party and getting fucked over by SAS, won't be home until Tuesday now. Could have ran but tired and won't hurt.

WUOC Relay leg 1, 18th, just under 3 mins down. Good enough race but annoyed to lose contact on 9 with the longer gaffle. Probably lost a bit of pace through the last loop on my own as well. Will do a proper write up over the next week. Great to nab 7th with the lads as well, good times. Encouraging results this week, pumped to push on now, feel like I'm transitioning well in to the seniors I think and would like to see results following suit soon enough.

Easy on the trails with Sasha, bit of a rest day, nice.

Pre sprint breakfast shakeout with bash

WUOC Sprint - 35th.

Was looking forward to this. Knew it would be fast based on the winning time and felt quite settled through to 5, flowing nicely and planning. Entered 5 on the west side with the intention of swinging back out but changed my plan when I saw a Russian rounding the fence so checked my map and went for that instead, a better route. I think this may have ruined my planning on 7 though, cutting in a building early after hesitating and giving myself 2 right angles, losing at least 10s (probably a bit more in the process). Head screwed back on for 8 and then took the road on 9 because it would allow me to plan the next few, maybe lost some more time on routes here. Flowed around 10 fine and 11 was going ok but there were loads of trees obscuring the buildings from the roads on the way, meaning I couldn't track them easily, cutting in far too early and losing around 20s. In hindsight, talking with Jonny, I should have been looking at the car park on the left but my compass was over that! This small slip led to missing the slight cut on 12 before hesitating in to the yard as well. This hesitation carried on to 13 when I took a bit of a crap route out of 12 (should have just hit the road) and then nearly missed the path between the fences, again losing a few seconds. Made sure to settle down from here and was flowing and moving well to the finish, trying to optimise running lines which may have led to some slightly longer routes but meant I could keep running and planning.

Generally not a bad performance but the 2 mistakes notably on 7 and 11 cost up to 30s, which would have meant knocking on the door of top 10 and would also have made me more composed around 12/13. Pace was good though and clawed back some paces being a bit more aggressive at the end. Basically I think I'm getting to a point where physically I'm in the mix now, which will hopefully still keep improving and this should hopefully allow me to be more composed and focus on the navigation in these sorts of races. Enjoyed it though, great to be racing at this level and I know what I need to do now to improve my results. All in for the relay now though!

WUOC Middle - 29th
Started well, settled and smooth through to 6 taking my time but moving well. Caught my 2 and 4 min men in quick succession and became a bit scrappy, racing rather than orienteering. Cock up on 7, cutting off the path and brain farting before realising, an avoidable mistake. Got my head together through the next couple but then messed up 10, again should have taken more time and been careful out of the control, missed the first hill which ruined my leg, Again, largely avoidable. Then a poor exit from 12 led to another mistake. From then it was a bit trudgy but all fine.
Top 30 is nice but could have been much higher had I been a little more sensible and concentrated on my own course. Enjoyed it though and looking forward to the sprint.

C • from your GPS it looks like... 2

Event: World University Orienteering Championships 2018
 

Easy pre breakfast.

Trotting round the middle model. Been a while since I've been in Scandi but was careful on technique and actually flowing very well. Bit with Sasha alternating first then loop back collecting some more. Nice

Jog and strides, boiling.