Training Log Archive: MuddyFox

Whole day with Rosie - walked around lots :) Into town and back.

Start 1:28... disastrously muddy!!

In some ways, a really disappointing race :(
My orienteering left a lot to be desired!

c1 - good (3rd)*
c2 - good (2nd)
c3 - rc error (2nd)
c4 - wet - muddy map (2nd)
c5 - s-l-o-w, worried about going wrong, did go wrong and ended up too low (10th!!)
c6 - good (3rd)
c7 - good but horribly slippery (2nd)
c8 - rc error (6th)
c9 - massive disaster! Thought I'd gone too far, ran back, to realise I hadn't gone far enough, to run back to where i was, to actually overrun it!! :O AGHHH! (11th)
c10 - fine (2nd)
c11 - fell over (6th)
c12 - fine (4th)
c13 - fine (2th)
c14 - overrun badly :( (12th)
c15 - fine but slow (5th)
c16 - fine (3rd)
c17 - fine (1st)
c18 - fine (1st)

*Brackets = position on leg
Found the scale difficult as it was my first time on a 1:15000
Couple of BIG mistakes, good on other bits...

7th/12 W20E

Event: JK 2010
 

JK - Bicton College
Didn't feel physically great after not much sleep, car journey and knowing I hadn't had the 'best' prep... BUT was still very happy to be there around the whole orienteering crowd again :)
Raining slightly as I set off... slightly too high for number 1, good start ;)
c2 - slow but fine
c3 - same
c4 - changed routes after I went through the gate, lost 30s
c5 - unsure and slow, another 25/20s lost
c6 - as above!!
c7 - slow but accurate
c8 - fine
c9 - slow but fine
c10 - bad route choice and slightly confuzled
c11 - parallel error with one of the buildings, not concentrating properly - biggest mistake :(
c12 - good
c13 - spiked :D (yeh great... few more of these would be good!!)
c14 - good
c15 - slow, but fine
c16 - fine
c17 - v slow exit from 16 cos lost all sense of direction
c18 - fine
c19 - fine
c20 - fine
finish - fastest time of 3 seconds to finish =) No orienteering involved :D

Overall reasonably happy with positioning considering the number of mistakes made, on the other hand, frustrating to have made em! To be expected considering very limited orienteering AND running recently.

17/28th W20E

Run with dad, quicker pace that him thou as I left him on the hills and on the way back :)

Nice gentle loosener before the JK... (worried!!!)

Think my lack of recent orienteering (or ever really) will definitely snow :S

Up to catch the 'Stagecoach' bus from Eccy road so as not to have to pay the extortionate 'First' bus prices!

Travelling to the JK

To the club night - felt rubbish!! No warm up and straight up hill :( Boooo!

Running in circles, stuck in the mud, then in twos, looking at a google street view photo from Italy Norway and find it on an street O map. Good to do some technical stuff before JK :O

Home from club night :) Was better than way there, but that hill is a killer...
Slightly different route hence distance.