Training Log Archive: Culbin

Event: GBR WOC Selection Race/LOC NWOL (Long)
 

Holme Fell - Retired with a massive blister on the ball of my foot. I was in agony every time I went down hill.

Event: GBR WOC Selection Race/LOC NWOL (Middle)
 

Bigland - Absolutely fantastic area. Small mistake at 3 in all the knolls and 23 too far right (lost about 3 mins) but the killer was 14. I was about the right height but didn't go far enough so ended up dropping back down and relocated not far from 13! When I went back up the hill I ended up in the same place but it didn't seem to fit, then I found a shallow re entrant(not mine) and went further along the slope and fell into my shallow re entrant. The rain started just after 16 and by the end I was soaked!

Allestree - Fantastic evening and the forest areas were really runnable, great event slightly spoilt by the pit that is either not mapped correctly or was positioned wrongly! I found a much bigger pit which I think is the correct one.
Should have been 46 minutes.

Mapping with S for DVO.

Bloody awful - nettles 4ft high brambles 5ft high and very thick grot where there was no nettles! I gave up when waist high in brambles looking for a control that was not where it should have been. I tried to tell the main members of the club that they should not put these events on in the summer. There is a case for street o events only from April onwards especially in the Midlands. This event made LEI events look ok!

Jog with K around park. Cool wind and damp but we only had to stop three times! (Once to watch the 6 baby cygnets)

Mapping with S for DVO. It was a slow around the trees due to the undergrowth. When does a non distinct tree become a distinct tree in open?
Some are several hundred years old and some are newly planted yet they are all shown with the same green circle - that can't be right.