Training Log Archive: philm64

GYm to prottect achilles. which isn't too bad,

20 mins cross trainer. 5.6km.

75 sit ups upstairs, & styretching.

15 mins on ascendor - AGONY - very tough, on low level too.
15 mins on another cardio thing, which was foul.

Very tired & soaked in sweat by the end. Good job.

Very late night in Portishead, watching band at Poacher, driving so not much booze, but dancing & home 12:15am, knackered. Good to catch up with many mates from my Portishead music days. Are they really over.....? :)

Lower back hurting since returnng from O event. TOok painkillers.

NWO Swindon Level C urban, Lydiard Park & west Swindon.

Very hot day, did the correct course for my age but even that was too far in the conditions. Achilles survived, tho last 10 mins it was hurting a bit, due to the very hot conditions - I was blowing up & red in the face & overheating - even getting the shivers and needing to use the lake at the finish!

Dreadful mistake at no 1 losing 30 seconds, was too far left and had travelled too far too quick to rectify. Then hit it properly.

Main error (apart from small hesitant ones - this course was FAR more planned to catch you out with uncrossable bits) was no 17 - had to go 3/4 of the way round huge building as hadn't noticed the gate on the map round a corner. another 45 seconds, and the race lost as it happened.

Twice fought my way thru green "fight" and once was repulsed by it - its the same for everyone, so that's all part of the sport.

Stupid, ignorant, narrow minded woman at no 24 on the phone to the "authorities" complaining about the control on "private land" - urm, what? What's private about a tree by a house on a side cul-de-sac? Anyone can go there? Tosser. Her kids would have loved to try orienteering!!!! Small route choice error after this as a result of being put off. 20 seconds.

Ghastly building-looping near the end was pure sadism, but I coped just, before staggering literally, totally boiling, across the last field. Soooo glad I wasn't on the A course like my clubmates!

Notice that even with some decent guys against me, I won a fair few legs. - 12 of them! Good grief. Also passed an M60 near the end and dropped him WHILST blowing up - he said later he's done 36 mins for 10k at age 60 .... yikes. (Tim Hughes, TVOC) . Overtook women's winner Sally Calland, she was running quote fast but made the mistake of NOT following me when i passed her at no 26! ;)

Nice chat to Roger later - he was 4 mins slower today - hope he's forgiven me for that uneccesary hatchet job I did on him at BOC relay.

I like Urban now, but at some point I need a break from all these events! One to go......?
Very good result from Mark Burley on the A, with Paul G & Richard C probably wishing they'd done shorter courses! Adam had the right idea! :) Also good to see Rachel Leathwood matched my splits on a lot of our common legs, when she got it right.

http://www.northwilts.org.uk/results/140712Swindon...
Splits: http://www.northwilts.org.uk/results/140712Swindon...

Route: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/539891857

Gym, plus cycle there & back (15 mins).

15 mins cross trainer.
3 mins cool down.
one easy-ish circuit of weights.
5 mins on running machine up to 10 km/hr to "test" achilles
15 mins on cross trainer (last 10 a struggle).

Total 9km cross trainer, so covered over 10km, so worthwhile cardio sesh.

Bought new Orthotics, as my old ones are rather flattened. Achilles not great. Will start Swindon Urban tomorro w& see what happens. Stretching is key. PLus ice etc.

WIsh me luck. If I get injured, I'm left with precisely NO hobbies.....

C • Good luck 2

Got out of bed to find my left achilles is sore- no idea why, was fine last night both running, warming down & after.

Spent day assessing it then iced it twice in evening, ibuprofen gel etc.

Canned TACH country run & watched TV with ice etc.
Need to nip this in the bud.

BOK Urban / Park race, Long Ashton,
Wondered if people would get to this thanks to the fire on the cumberlnd basin at 4pm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-28214...

- many took hours, and some gave up. I drove a very long way round but made it despite getting snarled up in roadworks of all things right at the end.

Felt good after 2 days off, and started OK up the hill, then nipped around the park controls loving it - very very easy - just my thing, and unlike last week, I was running pain free so bombing along.

Down into the village proper, enjoyed it all until I missed 18 completely - i was sure at one point it had been vanadalised. It wasn't, but i lost a minute there. Possibly it was sited a few yards too far west? Whatever - controls "hidden" can be missed by metres & time is lost.

I'd seen Cecilie's dad run out of 18 & head across field to 19 so i did the same - he went thru, got the control, and then came back - I went thru, got control & ran out onto track to no 20 thinking nothing more of it . (more later)

Confused at end by red line going thru OOB red lines 22-23, so i went to 24, then realised, went to 23, then back to 24 to avoid DQ, then finish.

Sadly some people decided that I was "disqualified" due to no 19 - I had crossed an uncrossable boundary (the gate was open). However, when you are racing., and you see someone ahead. clearly finding the control, looking closely at the description or carefully studying the finer points of the map dont' really occur - you just get on with it & carry on because here is a chance to regain lost time. This is how & why I have won countless O races over my 35-year career. I had no idea the gate being open was inconsistent with the map / the ground an hour earlier - my thoughts had already turned to no 20. And on the way to no 1, I'd not bothered looking - it would have involved turning my head more than 90 degrees, as it happened. 19 was hung on the wrong corner, too, but no one cares.

I collected 9 controls (the high field ones) in for Matt & Rach and it had been a splendid evening, apart from the immediate race post-mortem which was really rather bitter and unecessary. WE DO THIS FOR FUN remember.

My fastest km split was 4:08 so I'm happy with the way I ran - treated it like an evening road race! Adam took 3 hours to get there & was about 5 minutes quicker i think.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/538098052

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

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half day at work.

two medical appts - one was for finger - physio - quite good. 2+ months til i play guitar, 6 months+ til recovered, climb in 2015?

Best not pull a muscle then!

Then Diabetic eye screening, which left me with blurred vision & sunglasses on indoors.

Fun.

Work - dire. KNACKERED.

Dreaful rehearsal - ready to quit bands - only playing piano.