Training Log Archive: WillRigg

3rd quite an nice area, i checked my splits with most people aand seemed to have the fastest on most controls,I was hitting my controls well. mistake was at 6, don't why i came down so low and had to relocated after minutes of searching lost about 6 miutes on this.Callum white caught me on this mistake and he won eventually he knew the area as his house was only a few miles away!we both took differnt route choice from 7-8 i went over the open he went through the woods , both hit the control at the same time and then onwwards i was ahead of him though, after that caught up a lot of people oh and tim wo i got rid of earlier in the race caught up on these mistakes at 12 and 13 he came second...due to following people I think, I decided to beast the last 4 controls and got a gap of 2 minutes on them, then somehow missed the ride and lost 30 seconds to the finish :L 3rd out of 15 .... should of won really had the best performance out of most people.

knackered for this relay, but it was me jenny rickets and TONY the legend! only mistake was on 2 where it didn't seem to be in the right place otherwise a slow but reasonably clean race! Hector Haines was there to do a bit of pre WOC training and passed me onto the last two control which i just followed him into...he did class in some of the races at scottish! anyway we won the relay :D as someone in his team misspunched and so did sashas! all good banter!

just training so don't know the splits. Did some visualisation courses in the morning followed by instructed your partner where to go on courses and map memory.
we then did a peg relay where the coaches were instructed to distract us all the way, as they did very well. all of us stupid people ran the opposite directions to number 1 and followed the good coaches to the wrong control...this then meant we had to run twice as hard to catch up to the leading pack I then eventually did and lead the pack all the way james distracted me alot in the green and i messed up one of the contols and some people in a differnt group got ahead then caught them up took the lead 10-11 across a huge marsh where i went the right way and aload of other people went 90 degrees long. if i wasn't stupid enough to follow the coaches to 1 i would of won by a mile but i didn't pretty funny race!

messed up the qualifier beacuse of the two controls ... completly messed up! Shocking and then nathan followed me around the whole way and got into the final.....should of got like 16 minutes ...ah well

woods and lagganlia camp, went of well , took a wrong path to 12 making a 2 minute mistake !!! shame as i was going well winner got 16 05 would of hit about 15 if i didn't make a few mistakes! finished 4th in the end. so many controls to spike! barley see where the lines were going and where the next control was!

one of nicest areas i've ever been on ! :D did lots of training:simpliflying attack points longer legs contours and a lt green contour race. The area is really runnable and technical at the sam time. loved it :)

A day all to do with visualition-did some sort of map memory stuff aswell, went out on ltwo little 1.5k courses , lots of other thing i can't remember and we played a orienteering game of hide and seek in the afternoon and me and tim came 2nd iin the afternoon we did lots of running excersises as well !

lots of bearing practise which really helped, did aloot of pacing aswell but i didn't like it (to much to be done while concentrating on other things during a race! a good day in a nice area:) also did a relay using teddy bears...dropping them at a control point then making another from your team pick it up and put it at the adjacent control !