Training Log Archive: philm64

BOC relay, M50, leg 2, Cragg Estate & Chesterhope common

Leg 2 for a highly fancied BOK team. Super M55 Mark saunders unable to cope with early pace of Nigel Bunn & Mike Johnson of WCOC.

Slowly reeled in first WCOC's 2nd leg runner and burned him off immediately,, then nearly caught Roger Thetford. Cocked up no 9 as Roger was going to *his* control, but mine was to the East. 15 seconds of agonizing terror , standing there, as I realised i was in trouble. Lost 30-45 seconds, but got control quite quickly & the race was on. I was now 28 secs behind Roger. I was properly motivated to catch him.

FInally ran Roger down just after no 16, then he nearly got me again as he cut thru to last control on marshy field & my shoe nearly sucked off!

Sprinted my arse off on the run in to give Clive a "Quentin-proof" lead on the last leg. It was enough. We won. By nearly 5 mins...

This is my first ever Gold medal at a national level, and I'm very pleased.
Stiff & tired!
Result: http://www.cix.co.uk/~neper/brc14/classg.htm

C • Well done 6

BOC champs M50, Thrunton wood & Callaly.
11th
Shit.

Couldn't run in terrain anywhere really - & hard technically, from the off - coped to no 4 where i lost 45 secs, then no 5 - no chance. lost 6 mins? at least 5. Could not make head nor tail of the boulders / clearings - and there seemd to be no control. Had given up when i "found" it .

Staggered on, still unable to progress effectively thru terrain. Ironically, I nearly "won" a leg I walked most of - uphill to no 7. Nailed no 8. onto moor - scene of my 1985 pinnacle, where i strode out with Dermod Ruddock. This time, i could hardly move.
Lost a minute to Clive on 10 - despite no err0r. Then Jon Musgrave stormed past - I was inept.
Hung onto him on the long path run, which took me 15 mins to Tim's 11. "Fight" later was OK; fine, then the "Run" white woods at the end was horrendous - tried to stop staggering / walking & run - immediately mildy went over on ankle. Back to walking, then.

Repulsive 2nd to last control, a ridiculous rootstock in a badly mapped "area". Found it, ran to finish, hated it.
Completely outclassed on this type of terrain, and , more importantly, I loathed nearly all of the course. Which was overplanned.

Never again shall my days be darkened by these areas, and 1985 is soooooooooooo last century. GOod bye.
http://www.murrayphil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jk85.ht...

Half day at work; physio re finger - some ultrasound. and "frictions" - painful.

Shit! Finger now taped up. Worried.

Flew to Newcastle with Scrappy Doo & Actuary. BOC 2014.

Rest day. Band practice. Finger terribile. Can hardly play guitar barre chords. Problem.

BOK Urban series - Cheddar - Long, 5.9.

Used Garmin, which beeped every km, which was about every 4mins 16 secs. Quite pleasing!

Only error last control, when i went into the wrong "yard". Slight route choice slip to 18 but not much. Raining & wet so took it steady - not wanting to slip over.

left calf / achilles was playing up a bit but nothing like 2 weeks ago.
Short warm down.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/508986421

http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...

C • public activity 3

Foot stopped hurting today - so it hurt for all three days of the long w/e, cheers for that. Nice.

Tried jogging in park with Garmin, so see if i could use it. Clealy not,

What i did find was that the lap of of 3-lap 5km Victoria Park fun run, that I won in 20:15 in Sept, is 1.03 to 1.04 miles, so utterly spot on. 3.1 miles = 5km. But climb = 3 x 64 - 78ft (mapometer disgarees) so over 200ft of climb which is why 20:!5 seems slow!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/508305041

Foot less sore but still no way am I running yet. FInger terrible BTW. Unusable. Will spend some ££ if required on a private scan. What is inside my finger? Mush? (see andy Marr's achilles).

Not particularly happy about my summer prospects (climbing, mountaineering etc) now.

Please foot get better so I can enjoy one hobby?