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Tuesday Jun 25, 2013 #
Note
Third woc in row and for the first time I am not running what I wanted. Long was definitely my aim this year, and I did not get it. I am pleased to be running middle and relay, they were definitely secondary goals.
There aren't many times when I don't have tight calves. And tight calves = tight Achilles. Uusally I can offset this by foam rollering. I first noticed that this wasn't quite working when I did SEDS sprint training followed by Gullane. I thought asphalt was the worst for Achilles, but apparently sand is just as bad, if not worse.
It wasn't too bad though so I managed it through the jk, but after a week of road running at my in-laws after the JK it was getting worse. Burnbanks was bad, the graythwaite weekend it was worse, and by the british sprint and middle I could feel it with every step. After running the british sprint qual it was clear I would find it hard to focus on the nav in the final, and the asphalt would make things worse, so I sat it out. I shouldn't have run the british middle, but I did, thinking it would be more forgiving. It wasn't, and I was limping for a few days after. By this stage it was running 20 mins every other day. 10mila came. 8k with my Tisaren chums, had to be done. It was ok through the first 3/4. It was sore but not too bad. Then with a few K to go I pulled a calf muscle, which was excruciating. Spent the next few days hopping, and I was a bit worried about woc.
Since then it has been gradually re-building. Lots of biking and aquajogging, and the occasional running. 70mins last weekend was a new maximum, but by that stage the advice was 'run the woc long final, 80mins in sandy terrain, and there is a big risk something is going to go badly wrong'. I'm bored of being injured, really bored. It's sad as the long forests were what has inspired me through the year, and they are beautiful, really beautfiful, and I'm not going to get to run in them, but I respect the selectors' decision. I don't really think about the long term, and would always chose to take a gamble. Its good that we have people there to take the tough decisions out of your hands. The middle relay forests are rough, just how I like them, and I am looking forward to the challenge they present.
As far as the rest of the girls selections go, in theory I don't like the idea of not filling all of the places, but it depends on which athletes are performing well, and what their preferences are. There probably aren't many surprises in the girls team. There might have been some raised eye-brows at Tessa running the middle, but it is something she has
been improving at all year. She has 14th and 20th in middle distance world cups this year, and it'll be good to have her in the team. Big question is whether she'll come 14th again! It's a privilege to be in a relay team with two talented friends.
Men's selections were always going to be ugly. GG, Doug and Chris miss out. Terrible for them. All three will be back next year.
There aren't many times when I don't have tight calves. And tight calves = tight Achilles. Uusally I can offset this by foam rollering. I first noticed that this wasn't quite working when I did SEDS sprint training followed by Gullane. I thought asphalt was the worst for Achilles, but apparently sand is just as bad, if not worse.
It wasn't too bad though so I managed it through the jk, but after a week of road running at my in-laws after the JK it was getting worse. Burnbanks was bad, the graythwaite weekend it was worse, and by the british sprint and middle I could feel it with every step. After running the british sprint qual it was clear I would find it hard to focus on the nav in the final, and the asphalt would make things worse, so I sat it out. I shouldn't have run the british middle, but I did, thinking it would be more forgiving. It wasn't, and I was limping for a few days after. By this stage it was running 20 mins every other day. 10mila came. 8k with my Tisaren chums, had to be done. It was ok through the first 3/4. It was sore but not too bad. Then with a few K to go I pulled a calf muscle, which was excruciating. Spent the next few days hopping, and I was a bit worried about woc.
Since then it has been gradually re-building. Lots of biking and aquajogging, and the occasional running. 70mins last weekend was a new maximum, but by that stage the advice was 'run the woc long final, 80mins in sandy terrain, and there is a big risk something is going to go badly wrong'. I'm bored of being injured, really bored. It's sad as the long forests were what has inspired me through the year, and they are beautiful, really beautfiful, and I'm not going to get to run in them, but I respect the selectors' decision. I don't really think about the long term, and would always chose to take a gamble. Its good that we have people there to take the tough decisions out of your hands. The middle relay forests are rough, just how I like them, and I am looking forward to the challenge they present.
As far as the rest of the girls selections go, in theory I don't like the idea of not filling all of the places, but it depends on which athletes are performing well, and what their preferences are. There probably aren't many surprises in the girls team. There might have been some raised eye-brows at Tessa running the middle, but it is something she has
been improving at all year. She has 14th and 20th in middle distance world cups this year, and it'll be good to have her in the team. Big question is whether she'll come 14th again! It's a privilege to be in a relay team with two talented friends.
Men's selections were always going to be ugly. GG, Doug and Chris miss out. Terrible for them. All three will be back next year.
C • WOC 4
C • sand 2
Sunday Jun 23, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 1:11:57 [3] 9.0 km (8:00 / km)
Northern champs. Epoc. W21e.
I enjoyed today's physical long course. It was tough but fun.
Start -1 bearing. Glad to be able to get there before Jenny j's dad, who was putting up some fight!
2 - bearing, fine.
3 - went straight. It was fine underfoot, and saw some people punching it from a distance.
4 - straight. Tussocks but still moving ok so good.
5 - took some peering at with a 1:15 but fine.
6 - sort of gave up peering at the 1:15 as my map was a bit worn and it was too wet for my magnifier to work. I ran in the general direction just sort of hoping but would be ok. Big mistake. 2mins + dropped.
7 - this was really annoying as I was on line fine but had lost confidence from last control so went and checked out the one at the stream end. Which obviously wasn't mine. 1min.
8 - fine. Used the houses beyond.
9 - fine.
10 - straight, nice running.
11 - easy,
12 - really hard to stay on my feet. Was going fine then lost confidence and went right at the last minute. Relocated off a boulder with a control on. 30secs +.
13 - dropped about 15 secs as I thought the control was in the woods not the open. Map disintegrating.
14 - fine. Poor route but fine.
15 - really ripped tights over this crossing point. I think if I was make I'd have had made more of an effort to clear this.
16 - fine. Stuck in the rhodis but fine.
17 - couldn't see the gully on the map. I thought it was an index contour, but went to the centre if the circle and found the control.
18 - I went high. Good route.
19 - I went high. Good route.
20 - punched the wrong control first obviously.
Really jogged the run in.
Good race. Felt strong and fit. Achillies held up well. Terrible weather, but epoc did a great job.
Warm down with jon x yackking about woc. i'll keep my views on this for after the selections are announced. The girls team is the least of the selectors worries though! There are more boys that have absolutely justified their place in the woc team than the places available. I feel sorry for the selectors, and of course those who are going to miss out. All of the guys that deserve places are dedicated, professional orienteers as well as being lovely people who have worked hard for their performances. That some of them have to miss out is not pretty.
I enjoyed today's physical long course. It was tough but fun.
Start -1 bearing. Glad to be able to get there before Jenny j's dad, who was putting up some fight!
2 - bearing, fine.
3 - went straight. It was fine underfoot, and saw some people punching it from a distance.
4 - straight. Tussocks but still moving ok so good.
5 - took some peering at with a 1:15 but fine.
6 - sort of gave up peering at the 1:15 as my map was a bit worn and it was too wet for my magnifier to work. I ran in the general direction just sort of hoping but would be ok. Big mistake. 2mins + dropped.
7 - this was really annoying as I was on line fine but had lost confidence from last control so went and checked out the one at the stream end. Which obviously wasn't mine. 1min.
8 - fine. Used the houses beyond.
9 - fine.
10 - straight, nice running.
11 - easy,
12 - really hard to stay on my feet. Was going fine then lost confidence and went right at the last minute. Relocated off a boulder with a control on. 30secs +.
13 - dropped about 15 secs as I thought the control was in the woods not the open. Map disintegrating.
14 - fine. Poor route but fine.
15 - really ripped tights over this crossing point. I think if I was make I'd have had made more of an effort to clear this.
16 - fine. Stuck in the rhodis but fine.
17 - couldn't see the gully on the map. I thought it was an index contour, but went to the centre if the circle and found the control.
18 - I went high. Good route.
19 - I went high. Good route.
20 - punched the wrong control first obviously.
Really jogged the run in.
Good race. Felt strong and fit. Achillies held up well. Terrible weather, but epoc did a great job.
Warm down with jon x yackking about woc. i'll keep my views on this for after the selections are announced. The girls team is the least of the selectors worries though! There are more boys that have absolutely justified their place in the woc team than the places available. I feel sorry for the selectors, and of course those who are going to miss out. All of the guys that deserve places are dedicated, professional orienteers as well as being lovely people who have worked hard for their performances. That some of them have to miss out is not pretty.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2013 #
Note
Update
Back running 4 x a week, and will probably do this in training weeks until after woc / 6 day to prevent injuries flaring up again. Building up to reps, longer runs and back to back.
Yup, woc is back in the plans. Booking the tickets. Getting excited! What I am going to run, I don't know. All I know for sure is it definitely isn't sprint, which would cripple me. I'm trying to be patient with the running build up, but it is tedious. Doing loads of cycling / aquajogging too.
Looking forward to having more fun at the international races. It is hard being an athlete and a mother. The killer is lack of sleep and hard training just don't mix. Add into that stresses of races you have trained all year for, and it's easy to see why woc wasn't 100% fun last year. Not a lot has changed this year. Still very little sleep and lots of injuries, but I hope my approach to orienteering has changed. I'm not going to beat myself up over mistakes this year - it's pointless. I'll prepare as well as possible, give it everything, enjoy the orienteering and accept the results. So fingers crossed for continual improvement to my injuries for the next 4 weeks!
Back running 4 x a week, and will probably do this in training weeks until after woc / 6 day to prevent injuries flaring up again. Building up to reps, longer runs and back to back.
Yup, woc is back in the plans. Booking the tickets. Getting excited! What I am going to run, I don't know. All I know for sure is it definitely isn't sprint, which would cripple me. I'm trying to be patient with the running build up, but it is tedious. Doing loads of cycling / aquajogging too.
Looking forward to having more fun at the international races. It is hard being an athlete and a mother. The killer is lack of sleep and hard training just don't mix. Add into that stresses of races you have trained all year for, and it's easy to see why woc wasn't 100% fun last year. Not a lot has changed this year. Still very little sleep and lots of injuries, but I hope my approach to orienteering has changed. I'm not going to beat myself up over mistakes this year - it's pointless. I'll prepare as well as possible, give it everything, enjoy the orienteering and accept the results. So fingers crossed for continual improvement to my injuries for the next 4 weeks!
Sunday Jun 9, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 37:56 [3] 4.4 mi (8:37 / mi)
Auchingarrich sol 4 short blue.
This forest is such fun all races should be here. I've never got to the green bit before as once I think I stopped with cannaebearseditis, and another time I scratched my eye so badly with my first step in the forest I actually went to a&e. anyway, this time I finally got there. Lucky me. It was such fun.
1 - just sort of straight
2 - up the ride and just sort of straight through the green, which was fine. A bit off line and adjusted off the rocky knoll nearby.
3 - down the ride and straight through the green to the control
4 - straight to the thicket, which I couldn't see on the map.
5 - weird. I'd have mapped this closer to the hill, and maybe as a pit or crag. 30secs lost here
6,7 - nailed them
8 - good
9 - things went a bit off in the forest here, but the contours fitted so I kept going and got it.
10 - easy
11 - a bit left but fine
12 - easy
13 - not exactly tricky but everything else had been going so well I was getting sloppy. Hence 90 deg error. I'll put it on route gadget when I get a mo. good relocation practice!
The rest was easy but I was waking up a lot of these controls which is a bit annoying. I always run off before the bleep.
Fun fun fun. That mistake was the biggest time loss in a race so far this year (
5mins)Nice race to make it in.
This forest is such fun all races should be here. I've never got to the green bit before as once I think I stopped with cannaebearseditis, and another time I scratched my eye so badly with my first step in the forest I actually went to a&e. anyway, this time I finally got there. Lucky me. It was such fun.
1 - just sort of straight
2 - up the ride and just sort of straight through the green, which was fine. A bit off line and adjusted off the rocky knoll nearby.
3 - down the ride and straight through the green to the control
4 - straight to the thicket, which I couldn't see on the map.
5 - weird. I'd have mapped this closer to the hill, and maybe as a pit or crag. 30secs lost here
6,7 - nailed them
8 - good
9 - things went a bit off in the forest here, but the contours fitted so I kept going and got it.
10 - easy
11 - a bit left but fine
12 - easy
13 - not exactly tricky but everything else had been going so well I was getting sloppy. Hence 90 deg error. I'll put it on route gadget when I get a mo. good relocation practice!
The rest was easy but I was waking up a lot of these controls which is a bit annoying. I always run off before the bleep.
Fun fun fun. That mistake was the biggest time loss in a race so far this year (
5mins)Nice race to make it in.
Tuesday Jun 4, 2013 #
Orienteering - race 34:30 [3]
Not sure if it counts as a race but fun at a tinto Tuesday night event. Carmichael estate. Straight course on a modern map, but you also had to get as many score controls on a 1750 map as poss. The old map wasn't the problem so much as the fact that the grounds / gardens etc had changed beyond all recognition. Barbecue after. Great time had by whole family. Thanks tinto.
Achillies ok-ish but I am worried about soleus. It aches not in a good way.
Achillies ok-ish but I am worried about soleus. It aches not in a good way.
Sunday Jun 2, 2013 #
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Exhausted after a good few day's xtraining. Ran 25 mins in terrain today and it was ok. Every other day still but hopefully going to try back to back later in the week. Going o-ing too this week. Tuesday at tinto and short blue at auchingarrich (sorry Mrs Graeme but I fancy my chances...). Training from dreg Thursday. Can't wait. More cycling and aquajogging inbetween - can't say the aquajogging is growing on me...