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Sunday Nov 4, 2018 #
Event: November Classic
12 PM
Orienteering race 1:02:44 [5] 10.76 km (5:50 / km) +217m 5:18 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators
SOC November classic, short brown, 8.9km , Hampton Ridge. grim misty drizzle - good! :)
Routegadget now up - my start was pathetically slow, and cowardly. Why. Need to start like a winner, not a beginner. https://www.soc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#69&cour...
Very nearly a very good run. Some worries re. knee beforehand, but it was mainly fine (phew!). Small error at no 2. However, the "pack"/train that never materialised behind me, also lost time here - in Parkino's case, substantially more.
(Starting: 4 mins after me: Parkino. 6 mins: Paul G. 8 minutes: the danger man, Richard Barrett. None caught me, but i feared a train engulfing me at some point.....)
Strong run up to no 12, in fact, 10, 11 & 12 were me back to my best, IMO. I'd had a bad route & unfair conditions (undermapped gorse) on the long leg to no 8, but I'd got lucky with an M21S guy punching before me, and so I took the hit.
My massive (3 minute) error at no 13 was mainly due to map folding - I folded my map too close to the control site & drifted off the fold. This is entirely my fault. I was crap & I paid the price . I could have taken Pete Ward's route..... lost 2 mins on wrong spur, but even when i got to the right spur, little made sense & i lost another minute here before "getting lucky" & finding the flag. I then "unleashed hell".
running flat -effing out from here to try to re-catch the M21S, failed, but last control was tricky!!!!! Nearly made a big mess of that too. Parkino had seen me after my howling error, but he too lost time on no 16 & didn't make further inroads on me but had got close enough to take M50 win. Apart from the M18s, the M45s weren't vastly faster than me really, but I suspect all lost time. Pete Ward (57mins) certainly did.
Mixed feelings. A chance to win the NC, but Parkino deserved it with a strong run - even when i was flat out in the last few controls, I was only taking seconds out of him, not chunks. Yesterday's casualty, Nigel (the favourite), was barely slower but started earlier, so I reckon he was disadvantaged. There was no "train" behind me, but no one caught me either.
How Tim Tett ran so hard whilst unable to jog properly to the start... well he's a law unto himself! He & Clive on M55 were faster mins/km than almost all of us on Short brown.
Bunned & double-Tamsinned this weekend. Happy days! Gotta love a good pasting by Tamsin. She runs hard!!!!
https://race-results.info/2018/20181104novc/?page=...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1945878250
Routegadget now up - my start was pathetically slow, and cowardly. Why. Need to start like a winner, not a beginner. https://www.soc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#69&cour...
Very nearly a very good run. Some worries re. knee beforehand, but it was mainly fine (phew!). Small error at no 2. However, the "pack"/train that never materialised behind me, also lost time here - in Parkino's case, substantially more.
(Starting: 4 mins after me: Parkino. 6 mins: Paul G. 8 minutes: the danger man, Richard Barrett. None caught me, but i feared a train engulfing me at some point.....)
Strong run up to no 12, in fact, 10, 11 & 12 were me back to my best, IMO. I'd had a bad route & unfair conditions (undermapped gorse) on the long leg to no 8, but I'd got lucky with an M21S guy punching before me, and so I took the hit.
My massive (3 minute) error at no 13 was mainly due to map folding - I folded my map too close to the control site & drifted off the fold. This is entirely my fault. I was crap & I paid the price . I could have taken Pete Ward's route..... lost 2 mins on wrong spur, but even when i got to the right spur, little made sense & i lost another minute here before "getting lucky" & finding the flag. I then "unleashed hell".
running flat -effing out from here to try to re-catch the M21S, failed, but last control was tricky!!!!! Nearly made a big mess of that too. Parkino had seen me after my howling error, but he too lost time on no 16 & didn't make further inroads on me but had got close enough to take M50 win. Apart from the M18s, the M45s weren't vastly faster than me really, but I suspect all lost time. Pete Ward (57mins) certainly did.
Mixed feelings. A chance to win the NC, but Parkino deserved it with a strong run - even when i was flat out in the last few controls, I was only taking seconds out of him, not chunks. Yesterday's casualty, Nigel (the favourite), was barely slower but started earlier, so I reckon he was disadvantaged. There was no "train" behind me, but no one caught me either.
How Tim Tett ran so hard whilst unable to jog properly to the start... well he's a law unto himself! He & Clive on M55 were faster mins/km than almost all of us on Short brown.
Bunned & double-Tamsinned this weekend. Happy days! Gotta love a good pasting by Tamsin. She runs hard!!!!
https://race-results.info/2018/20181104novc/?page=...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1945878250
Saturday Nov 3, 2018 #
Event: Winchester City Urban
1 PM
Orienteering race (urban) 47:45 [5] 10.0 km (4:47 / km) +130m 4:29 / km
shoes: Saucony Fastwitch 6
Winchester Urban, Vet men 40-54 (age 54.25), 6.4km
(inner LH knee hurt the whole way - eh? Injury site from OMM 2015).
Comically bad; I sat my A levels at Peter Symonds college in 1982, & many parts of the course, I knew exactly where the control would be, no "visualisation" required as i grew up here.
Yet I got to the site of no 2 and there was no flag (hint: an EMIT pad is 2 dimensional, and NOT a 3D control flag; which were designed in 3d , funnily enough, for a reason).
After spending nearly 2 minutes inside bushes getting scratched and about to bail (as Nigel Bunn did), the girl starting 1 or 2 mins after me arrived. I was by now totally stressed & fucked off , as my urban race of the autumn was already in pieces, and i told her the control wasn't there, I'd been hunting for 2 minutes. "But it's just here" she said, and calmly pinged her touch free EMIT against a pad hidden INSIDE THE THICKET which I could not see.
Ran past her 15 seconds later saying "that's my race over; just like that!" & won no 3 as an anger split (I never win splits, ever, so I was clearly furious). She tried to stay with me, this old loser who was unable to see a pad inside a thicket, but shortly i was alone as i reeled off a sub-4 min km.
Continued with major sadness until no 13, where the no 13 on the map conveniently obscured the previous way in; in i went, and searching behind wheelie bins is a new low, until someone realised we were in the wrong bit & out we came. Another minute+.
Hard running from here all the way and hey presto, yes I did not check in detail the control desc. for the last control. Past caring. I'm sure this was what they intended, & highly amusing for onlookers, but TBH it was (but wasn't ) the final straw as i had to run out again (the "walk" of shame) & go round & come in again & do even worse than I was doing anyway. Shit result.
(the last straw? the girl who'd caught me at no 2 arrived shortly afterwards, having read her description, and did not enter the finishing field but went to the control instead)
Nigel Bunn (who'd finished after me & was DQed - missing no 2) & I went back to the no 2 site together, he'd never found it, and we got there, and he was like, oh you're kidding me, I can't be expected to see that. Description: thicket, East side. It wasn't on the side. it was on the east side of the inside stem/"trunk" of the thicket. We both "complained" (expressed our disappointment) to the controller, but to no avail. I would never have found it, either, had said girl not turned up & shown me (immediately) where it was. If you're reduced to brushing around inside thickets, on the off chance the control hasn't actually been nicked, & you may *just* locate it in there somewhere, it's no longer the running sport i enjoy.
SHOULD EMIT PADS ALSO HAVE 3D NORMAL O FLAGS UNDER THEM. I say yes. If you're 3m from the "flag", & you can't see it, something's wrong.
Discuss.
Result: Whatever http://www.baoc.info/sites/default/files/2018/11/0...
Strava: whatever: https://www.strava.com/activities/1943685419
(inner LH knee hurt the whole way - eh? Injury site from OMM 2015).
Comically bad; I sat my A levels at Peter Symonds college in 1982, & many parts of the course, I knew exactly where the control would be, no "visualisation" required as i grew up here.
Yet I got to the site of no 2 and there was no flag (hint: an EMIT pad is 2 dimensional, and NOT a 3D control flag; which were designed in 3d , funnily enough, for a reason).
After spending nearly 2 minutes inside bushes getting scratched and about to bail (as Nigel Bunn did), the girl starting 1 or 2 mins after me arrived. I was by now totally stressed & fucked off , as my urban race of the autumn was already in pieces, and i told her the control wasn't there, I'd been hunting for 2 minutes. "But it's just here" she said, and calmly pinged her touch free EMIT against a pad hidden INSIDE THE THICKET which I could not see.
Ran past her 15 seconds later saying "that's my race over; just like that!" & won no 3 as an anger split (I never win splits, ever, so I was clearly furious). She tried to stay with me, this old loser who was unable to see a pad inside a thicket, but shortly i was alone as i reeled off a sub-4 min km.
Continued with major sadness until no 13, where the no 13 on the map conveniently obscured the previous way in; in i went, and searching behind wheelie bins is a new low, until someone realised we were in the wrong bit & out we came. Another minute+.
Hard running from here all the way and hey presto, yes I did not check in detail the control desc. for the last control. Past caring. I'm sure this was what they intended, & highly amusing for onlookers, but TBH it was (but wasn't ) the final straw as i had to run out again (the "walk" of shame) & go round & come in again & do even worse than I was doing anyway. Shit result.
(the last straw? the girl who'd caught me at no 2 arrived shortly afterwards, having read her description, and did not enter the finishing field but went to the control instead)
Nigel Bunn (who'd finished after me & was DQed - missing no 2) & I went back to the no 2 site together, he'd never found it, and we got there, and he was like, oh you're kidding me, I can't be expected to see that. Description: thicket, East side. It wasn't on the side. it was on the east side of the inside stem/"trunk" of the thicket. We both "complained" (expressed our disappointment) to the controller, but to no avail. I would never have found it, either, had said girl not turned up & shown me (immediately) where it was. If you're reduced to brushing around inside thickets, on the off chance the control hasn't actually been nicked, & you may *just* locate it in there somewhere, it's no longer the running sport i enjoy.
SHOULD EMIT PADS ALSO HAVE 3D NORMAL O FLAGS UNDER THEM. I say yes. If you're 3m from the "flag", & you can't see it, something's wrong.
Discuss.
Result: Whatever http://www.baoc.info/sites/default/files/2018/11/0...
Strava: whatever: https://www.strava.com/activities/1943685419
3 PM
Note
Tamsin Moran (SPOOK/SOC) also attended Peter Symonds College for her A levels, and was on a nostalgic day too.
She left 5 years earlier.
Me?
36 years.
My sister?
38 years.
Ouch.
Tasmin beat me. By nearly 2 minutes..... how much did i lose at no 2.. ....?
https://race-results.info/2018/20181103winc/?page=...
She left 5 years earlier.
Me?
36 years.
My sister?
38 years.
Ouch.
Tasmin beat me. By nearly 2 minutes..... how much did i lose at no 2.. ....?
https://race-results.info/2018/20181103winc/?page=...
Friday Nov 2, 2018 #
Note
(rest day)
Thursday Nov 1, 2018 #
9 AM
Cycling 35:00 [3] 11.0 km (3:11 / km) +100m 3:03 / km
Ride bike to town for service.
Ride it back later (£82 spent and bike vastly nicer).
Plus 45 minute walk..... on top of the run ...... .
https://www.strava.com/activities/1939587428
Ride it back later (£82 spent and bike vastly nicer).
Plus 45 minute walk..... on top of the run ...... .
https://www.strava.com/activities/1939587428
1 PM
Running 25:12 [2] 5.2 km (4:51 / km) +30m 4:43 / km
shoes: Brookes Ravenna 8
Run back to town to get serviced bike; ride it home.
Small rucsac on back. Felt sluggish.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1939588432
Small rucsac on back. Felt sluggish.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1939588432
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018 #
3 PM
Note
Indoor roped climbing at UCR, with Clio
All very good . felt v light & on form. Stupendous overhanging 6a+ probably the highlight, cut loose & spun round half upside down, able to clip & stay in control.
Managed 2 6b's, so am improving all the time.
All very good . felt v light & on form. Stupendous overhanging 6a+ probably the highlight, cut loose & spun round half upside down, able to clip & stay in control.
Managed 2 6b's, so am improving all the time.
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018 #
7 PM
Running 56:30 [4] 10.82 km (5:13 / km) +118m 4:57 / km
shoes: Brookes Ravenna 8
BOK Keynsham training run, 6 of us, Ifor showing the way. Headtorches on. Very cold. Lots of paths by rivers etc.
Treated this as a full on fartlek, & on numerous occasions put the boot in, properly, as I felt very frisky & on form (much more so than the golf course one 2 weeks ago where I also tried to run off the front). I really wasn't tired after Sunday's SARUM event, so maybe I'm getting fitter at last.
Pleasing. Ease back now til the SOC weekend. The only annoyance was that i saw the OMM maps in the pub afterwards. the B course would have been there for the taking. Surely...............!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1936447138
Treated this as a full on fartlek, & on numerous occasions put the boot in, properly, as I felt very frisky & on form (much more so than the golf course one 2 weeks ago where I also tried to run off the front). I really wasn't tired after Sunday's SARUM event, so maybe I'm getting fitter at last.
Pleasing. Ease back now til the SOC weekend. The only annoyance was that i saw the OMM maps in the pub afterwards. the B course would have been there for the taking. Surely...............!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1936447138