Training Log Archive: housewife

Scottish champs and woc selection races. 2nd.

Shitty shitty shit shit shit. Crappy crappy crappity crap crap crap.

1, 2 good. 3 way too high - 1min? 4, 5 good. 6 good - high route with ride then straight on. 7 slow, through deep heather the whole way - straight route. 8 fine. 9 was tricky, finding a boulder in a field of unmarked boulders and root stocks. On a good line, but saw the drinks point just infront of me. It was marked on the map as 100m beyond the control, so went backwards. Was eally confused. The only boulder big enough to be mapped had no control on. After 2 mins + of hacking around realised the drinks point must be wrongly mapped, and ran on to the control which was at the drinks point. The descriptions show the control to have a drinks point, so had i realised this i would have known that the map was trying to say that there was a drinks point at the control. Marking a drinks point on a map 100m away from a control, when the drinks point was at the control is wrong. No cup is supposed to be shown. The drinks point is indicated by the descriptions only. I know this from the countless wre's that i have done. I would expect the controller to know this. It is pretty basic stuff.

The rest of the race was dire. I was so annoyed i ran on and duffed the next one by about 90secs, then went straight on 11. i ran it quite hard as i was so annoyed. 12 tried coming in from above. Poor. 45secs. 13 should have stuck with plan to go totally over the hill. I had the running still, i was so annoyed. Went round. Stopped too soon. Shite. 90secs. 14 ok ish. Bendy route. 15 poor mapping of veg change near the control. V confused. 45 secs. 16 bendy route. 17 shite. 30secs. 18, 19 fine.

Get to the finish. No splits. Emit hasn't worked. Exactly the same as happened to me in 2008. emit really is shit. I'll wait to see the gps to see how i was doing but i reckon i lost a healthy lead at 9.... actually i had a lead of about 2:15 at 8, as i punched just after hollie. To add insult to injury it is sunday night and winsplits has attempted to hide the fact that i have no splits by giving me the splits that i would have done had i been a set %tage behind cat all the way around, making me look like a total punter! how embarassing!
I'd much rather be a mispunch thanks!

8mins lost. I am so frustrated. Feel things are going backwards rapidly. i am angry with the shite drinks point mapping (the controller didn't seem too fussed by it. Four of the women's top 10 lost lots of time there - that is shit!!!). i am mostly angry that i let everything i had worked for go out of the window by running angrily for the rest of the course and f-ing up left right and centre. Really don't want to go to woc if i am going to disgrace myself orienteering like that. Everyone says "you should be pleased because you got 2nd". they don't really get it though. I orienteer to see how well i can do. That's what interests me. How well i do against other people is of no interest. a wobble at no 3 apart, i was orienteering beautifully before 9. everything i had worked on with t i was doing. It was great. Then i threw it all away. Got to get better!

C • Maybe the point is whether ... 2

Took it a bit easier cycling in, and no post cycle jog due to chiropractors stuff settling. Was really trying to get a good night's sleep, but ray got back lateish from tt, tipsy and giggly, desperate for me to help him make an outfit for some sort of jubilee dressing up thing at work. I expressed my opinions from bed. It was quite funny. then the kids woke up at 5:15. not funny!

Cycle home. Much later than usual as a client called 5 mins before i was due to leave and needed me go fet some info for their vat return. 3 hours of running reports later i get to leave. this rather stuffs my plans of getting an early night, as packing is put back 3hours.

4 x 4 mins in meadows. Hamstring was sore throughout and restircting stride length. Felt slow and unfit. Not good. Talked over the long and middle races, so have a plan and feel a bit better prepared. Good.

And my knee hurts again!!!!!! FFS!!!!!

Knee and back stuff and core. Shouldn't have done the back stuff as i think i should have left what the chiropractor did well alone. something cricked badly the wrong way. Not feeling good. Bad day's training.

Shorter suntrap and a bit around ep.

Colinton sprint o. Ray beat me by loads - oh the shame! i was pansying but still managed to swim through loads of nettles and got quite disorientated a few times.

Cycle to colinton then home after

Cycle to work. Felt good, if a little queasy. Up in the nihght with a vomiting Lucy. Nice. Found an extra pile of sick in the very thick bedroom rug when skidded on it. Could have done with more sleep. Hard to get to sleep last night when i didn't run enough yesterday too.

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Post cycle jog. Would have felt excellent, if the hamstring niggle wasn't there. Apart from that legs raring to go. Could be a good weekend.

10 x 1min on 30secs off. Felt good and fast. 10 is enough to boost my confjdence without leaving me crocked.

Cycle home

Run up to physio.

She tells me it is mainly sciatia, should be gone in a few weeks with lots of spikey ball stuff. For me this is a bit of a result. The prospect of running pain free for the first time since january in a few weeks time is pretty exciting.

She's got the winning students orienteers now apparently. Poor her!

Cycle to work. not enough sleep. Tired.

Cylce home. Great fun competitive cycle along the canal. Closed some bloke down, and he looked over his shoulder, saw I was a girl, busted a gut to get away. No chance. He kept looking over his shoulder, to see me there, 3m back, smiling and admiring the view, and kept busting a gut to get away. Great fun! Just because we are girls doesn't mean you are fitter than us you sexist pig.
No other training today as I am totally whacked and my hamstring is really not happy today.

Planned to do glen dye but yesterday was totally sttessy and had a cold so it didn't happen. Went to esoc long o instead and did short. It was good. Gel after 40 mins. Felt excellent, much better than pexpected, very strong up the hills and strong to the end. i was pootling a bit tho, you know when you know the quickest route is pegging it straight, but you choose a slightly different route as the running looks more pleasant etc. Only time loss no 11, which i would possibly have hung differently...

Hamstring / glutes impede my stride length in r leg. Hmmmm.

Stacks of sleep as stevie stayed over and the kids woke him up to play instead

Ran 6.87 miles