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Sunday Oct 22, 2017 #
12 PM
Orienteering race 1:00:21 [5] 7.9 km (7:38 / km) +254m 6:35 / km
(injured) shoes: Inov-8 Mudclaw 265 Blue
Compass Sport Cup final, DEVON OC, "Virtuous Lady"
Blue men, 6.7km 265m, 7th, 60:21
Early start 6:15am alarm, coach 7:20 to Devon.
Started well, felt great cruising down the paths & open areas towards no 1 on a steep muddy slidy "treacherous" slope.
By no 2, my sacroiliac joint (LH side-ish) had basically "gone", and i was in a lot of pain in LH buttock, dropped to path by river for no 3 & found i could only jog, so prepared to drop out; saw Richard Cottle approach no 3 from no 4 (he did 2-1-2-4-3-4); & had caught him 6 mins already.
Told him i was on the verge of dropping out, but he persuaded me to stick at it, so together we worked, to no 9. My pain was severe on downhills / banks; bad on the flats; bearable going uphill. So on the uphill bit from no 9 I "decided" to try to drop Richard. As I'm "apparently" a "top south west M50" (keep deluding myself). I slowly crept away from him uphill (making no impression on Charles just ahead, mind).
I stuck at it, pretending to be Phil Murray pre-July2017. Richard felt i was going the wrong way (I wasn't; think i came 2nd on no 10) and did his own thing, losing 15 minutes (bye bye). I carried on. The map around nos 11 & 12 was WELL dodgy, I stopped still, completely confused - lost? Then suddenly there was the control - shit! . Similar at no 12, except this time I was wayyyy too high. Very narrow escapes there ; lucky? Or let down, as were many, by poor vegetation mapping there?
After spectator control, I tried to speed up; it hurt; i made an annoying 30sec error at no 18 then was finished really. Not a good result - my worst for 3 years. But considering my past 3 months..... in fact, did I aim too high?
BOK won, tho & that was all it was about. GREAT STUFF. Great atmosphere on coach on way home. Respect to all the clubs, from up North, who came down - INT won the Trophy, which really pleased me.
Liz's (to moan, basically) - then home - hot bath - painkillers - hot water bottle - shouting in agony. A desperate night.
Now injured.
https://www.devonorienteering.co.uk/results-archiv...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1242244371
http://www.devonoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#122&...
Blue men, 6.7km 265m, 7th, 60:21
Early start 6:15am alarm, coach 7:20 to Devon.
Started well, felt great cruising down the paths & open areas towards no 1 on a steep muddy slidy "treacherous" slope.
By no 2, my sacroiliac joint (LH side-ish) had basically "gone", and i was in a lot of pain in LH buttock, dropped to path by river for no 3 & found i could only jog, so prepared to drop out; saw Richard Cottle approach no 3 from no 4 (he did 2-1-2-4-3-4); & had caught him 6 mins already.
Told him i was on the verge of dropping out, but he persuaded me to stick at it, so together we worked, to no 9. My pain was severe on downhills / banks; bad on the flats; bearable going uphill. So on the uphill bit from no 9 I "decided" to try to drop Richard. As I'm "apparently" a "top south west M50" (keep deluding myself). I slowly crept away from him uphill (making no impression on Charles just ahead, mind).
I stuck at it, pretending to be Phil Murray pre-July2017. Richard felt i was going the wrong way (I wasn't; think i came 2nd on no 10) and did his own thing, losing 15 minutes (bye bye). I carried on. The map around nos 11 & 12 was WELL dodgy, I stopped still, completely confused - lost? Then suddenly there was the control - shit! . Similar at no 12, except this time I was wayyyy too high. Very narrow escapes there ; lucky? Or let down, as were many, by poor vegetation mapping there?
After spectator control, I tried to speed up; it hurt; i made an annoying 30sec error at no 18 then was finished really. Not a good result - my worst for 3 years. But considering my past 3 months..... in fact, did I aim too high?
BOK won, tho & that was all it was about. GREAT STUFF. Great atmosphere on coach on way home. Respect to all the clubs, from up North, who came down - INT won the Trophy, which really pleased me.
Liz's (to moan, basically) - then home - hot bath - painkillers - hot water bottle - shouting in agony. A desperate night.
Now injured.
https://www.devonorienteering.co.uk/results-archiv...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1242244371
http://www.devonoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#122&...
Saturday Oct 21, 2017 #
Note
(rest day)
BOK classroom courses all day - Organise an Orienteering event, and Event Safety Workshop (Mike Forrest)
Both good & worthwhile ; more UBOC people there than anyone else , which was good of them!
Both good & worthwhile ; more UBOC people there than anyone else , which was good of them!
Friday Oct 20, 2017 #
3 PM
Running 33:30 [3] 6.5 km (5:09 / km) +110m 4:45 / km
shoes: Brookes Ravenna 8
Steady run on Pur Down, with map.
Felt a little queasy, and light headed. Rest now til Sunday.
Mapometer says 110m climb - really? yes was steep attaining pur down, but even so.
https://gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4632348.htm...
Felt a little queasy, and light headed. Rest now til Sunday.
Mapometer says 110m climb - really? yes was steep attaining pur down, but even so.
https://gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4632348.htm...
Thursday Oct 19, 2017 #
Note
(sick) (rest day)
Upset stomach from 6am.
Plans to run shelved. Vile weather anyway.
Plans to run shelved. Vile weather anyway.
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017 #
12 PM
Orienteering 47:30 [4] 7.1 km (6:41 / km) +191m 5:54 / km
shoes: Mud Claw 333
Clifton Downs - re-run the parts of the course from 10 days ago ("Green") that I hadn't done (due to inexplicable achilles pain) & also being late for marshalling, due to no-one going off before 12 noon, due to no Phil Warry. And feeling awful (then, not now).
NOTE: the map was inconsistent - I wondered why I was struggling 10 days ago - the black X means seat - except when it doesn't (eg. gym equipment). Black X is NOT on the legend - WHY NOT? And if a seat's on the ground, it may or may not be on the map. Sorry, but that's not good enough - esp. when there are beginners around.
Leg 3, which I'd really ballsed up, in 1:22 (against 3:30 - 2 mins lost)
Also no 6 - re-ran, the map made no sense to me, showing "semi open" all the way to the road when in fact there's a canopy. 2:42 vs. 4:50 - another 2 minutes lost.
Then re-ran from no 9 to finish, pretty much at "race pace", in 21:35.
So that plus earlier split 23:47 less the errors taken out giving almost exactly 41 minutes.
That's not too bad; Adam did 32, but surprisingly 3 mins behind Matthew Pickering, who I beat last Saturday at NGOC. And behind Nick Gracie. Hmm. http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Worthwhile. Plus some warmup /down. Good jaunt. Felt vastly more at home with M&C today than 10 days ago. Too late for CSC on Sunday? May do some more on thursday, on PurDown, or something.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1234471923
https://www.strava.com/activities/1234471980
https://www.strava.com/activities/1234471988
NOTE: the map was inconsistent - I wondered why I was struggling 10 days ago - the black X means seat - except when it doesn't (eg. gym equipment). Black X is NOT on the legend - WHY NOT? And if a seat's on the ground, it may or may not be on the map. Sorry, but that's not good enough - esp. when there are beginners around.
Leg 3, which I'd really ballsed up, in 1:22 (against 3:30 - 2 mins lost)
Also no 6 - re-ran, the map made no sense to me, showing "semi open" all the way to the road when in fact there's a canopy. 2:42 vs. 4:50 - another 2 minutes lost.
Then re-ran from no 9 to finish, pretty much at "race pace", in 21:35.
So that plus earlier split 23:47 less the errors taken out giving almost exactly 41 minutes.
That's not too bad; Adam did 32, but surprisingly 3 mins behind Matthew Pickering, who I beat last Saturday at NGOC. And behind Nick Gracie. Hmm. http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Worthwhile. Plus some warmup /down. Good jaunt. Felt vastly more at home with M&C today than 10 days ago. Too late for CSC on Sunday? May do some more on thursday, on PurDown, or something.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1234471923
https://www.strava.com/activities/1234471980
https://www.strava.com/activities/1234471988
Monday Oct 16, 2017 #
1 PM
Cycling 1:01:23 [3] 18.4 km (3:20 / km) +161m 3:12 / km
Bike ride, north this time, vague plan of following cycle path signs. Windy - esp going back (stopped at 30 mins & turned round). had to pedal hard & change down gears on the downhill going back across Stoke Park / Pur Down.
UWE, Harry Stoke, Stoke Gifford, Little Stoke, Bradley Stoke. All the Stokes! Confused? I am.
An hour's outdoor activity, anyway, in between hurricane Ophelia's attacks. (red sun / yellow sky this morning)
https://www.strava.com/activities/1233020360
UWE, Harry Stoke, Stoke Gifford, Little Stoke, Bradley Stoke. All the Stokes! Confused? I am.
An hour's outdoor activity, anyway, in between hurricane Ophelia's attacks. (red sun / yellow sky this morning)
https://www.strava.com/activities/1233020360