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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019 #
Note
(rest day)
Surprisingly unscathed by the JK - unheard of.
Even felt quite energetic cycling to south Bristol & back. (<50 mins total)
Even felt quite energetic cycling to south Bristol & back. (<50 mins total)
Monday Apr 22, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 30:44 [5] 5.72 km (5:22 / km) +92m 4:58 / km
shoes: Innov8 MudClaw 300 2019
JK Relay, Minley, M165+ relay, leg 1 , 5.3km, 2nd back in class, 4th back overall, 30:44 (strava), 30:59 (EMIT pad after we'd stopped). BOK Dream team back in action - 1st place. Yay.
Foot compeded & taped; comfy new Mudclaws on. Painkillers swallowed.
Mass start with elite women. M55s include Tim Tett (rematch?) & leg 1 specialist Nigel Bunn (after a disappointing 2 ind. races for him). Got boxed miles back after start (messing around "opening" map), and had to run wide in forest to try to catch up. I could see Nigel B & Cecilie way up front, with Tim T not far behind, but when we hit the forest road, it started making sense as others peeled off to the right (in error!!), & Cecilie went full pelt to no 1, with 2-3 elite Ws in her wake & me in oxygen debt 10 seconds further down.
Got my act together, & by no 2 was going well - but lost the leaders near 3 & had a lucky escape - 10s lost.
Thence on was fighting to stay within spitting distance of Nigel, and Cecilie reappeared having had a slightly longer gaffle. Meanwhile, Tessa Strain was exerting her dominance on the race, and I was just off the pace at the spectator control, but pulled back with a decent climb/line to no 15. Then on was eyeballs out and as Tessa & Cecilie kicked from no 17, I was already dropped and could not make any impression on Nigel, either. Still. No sign of SYO - very weird.
Happily, Mark S passed Jules B, and Clive pulled another 2mins away from Roger so TVOC got a deserved silver; pre-race joint favourites SYO a distant 8th. Tim clearly gave 100% yesterday & had nothing left. Bewildering. Nick L ran a decent middle leg!!!
No prizes. I suspect EMIT was to blame; yet our result was clear cut (& the elite women's wasn't, after 2 DQ's - yet they got *their* podiums....hmm.....). This JK will be remembered for EMIT woes, which is a shame as it was a really good JK. The commentary was also way off the standard expected. When Clive finished, they asked him "Did you win?" He replied "that's what you're supposed to know!". Dear me.
Note: I won the JK short open relay with SHUOC in 1984 (age 19!); M21L1 in 1991, and my Mum won the JK W43 ("D43") in 1979, 40 years ago, in gardening shoes, at her first attempt. I beat Clive too, that year! ;-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2310295123
https://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#80&route...
Foot compeded & taped; comfy new Mudclaws on. Painkillers swallowed.
Mass start with elite women. M55s include Tim Tett (rematch?) & leg 1 specialist Nigel Bunn (after a disappointing 2 ind. races for him). Got boxed miles back after start (messing around "opening" map), and had to run wide in forest to try to catch up. I could see Nigel B & Cecilie way up front, with Tim T not far behind, but when we hit the forest road, it started making sense as others peeled off to the right (in error!!), & Cecilie went full pelt to no 1, with 2-3 elite Ws in her wake & me in oxygen debt 10 seconds further down.
Got my act together, & by no 2 was going well - but lost the leaders near 3 & had a lucky escape - 10s lost.
Thence on was fighting to stay within spitting distance of Nigel, and Cecilie reappeared having had a slightly longer gaffle. Meanwhile, Tessa Strain was exerting her dominance on the race, and I was just off the pace at the spectator control, but pulled back with a decent climb/line to no 15. Then on was eyeballs out and as Tessa & Cecilie kicked from no 17, I was already dropped and could not make any impression on Nigel, either. Still. No sign of SYO - very weird.
Happily, Mark S passed Jules B, and Clive pulled another 2mins away from Roger so TVOC got a deserved silver; pre-race joint favourites SYO a distant 8th. Tim clearly gave 100% yesterday & had nothing left. Bewildering. Nick L ran a decent middle leg!!!
No prizes. I suspect EMIT was to blame; yet our result was clear cut (& the elite women's wasn't, after 2 DQ's - yet they got *their* podiums....hmm.....). This JK will be remembered for EMIT woes, which is a shame as it was a really good JK. The commentary was also way off the standard expected. When Clive finished, they asked him "Did you win?" He replied "that's what you're supposed to know!". Dear me.
Note: I won the JK short open relay with SHUOC in 1984 (age 19!); M21L1 in 1991, and my Mum won the JK W43 ("D43") in 1979, 40 years ago, in gardening shoes, at her first attempt. I beat Clive too, that year! ;-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2310295123
https://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#80&route...
Sunday Apr 21, 2019 #
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:05:40 [5] 11.62 km (5:39 / km) +252m 5:06 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators
JK long, Cold Ash, v hot day, 9.7km. 65:40, 4th; 4th overall in JK M55L
Tim Tett started 4 mins after me (after Charlie yesterday, this felt cruel). Mistake - wore dobs, despite Jim B saying dont bother. He was right. Huge blister slowly formed under LH ball of foot all the way. V hard ground.
Plugged away gamely until heat / thirst starting kicking in along with blister pain by no 15. Took a drink then lost head a little & 90 seconds in the wrong bit of green at no 18. By no 19, Tim was on me, and by 21 was past - just.
After road crossing I again nearly blew it as Tim nipped away - had to go back to punch no 24, then had a word with my (dehydrated, parched, sore) self, and just ran as hard as i could to "catch" Tim - didnt' manage it (quite), and he's 59 & was tiring too - we finished about 3 seconds apart.
Clive had done enough to pass me, & Chas was the fastest again today, so my podium yesterday was wiped out & I finished 4th. The worst possible place. But i'd expected top 8, so have to be pleased.
https://race-results.info/live/1662/?page=coursepa...
https://www.strava.com/activities/2308526449
Tim Tett started 4 mins after me (after Charlie yesterday, this felt cruel). Mistake - wore dobs, despite Jim B saying dont bother. He was right. Huge blister slowly formed under LH ball of foot all the way. V hard ground.
Plugged away gamely until heat / thirst starting kicking in along with blister pain by no 15. Took a drink then lost head a little & 90 seconds in the wrong bit of green at no 18. By no 19, Tim was on me, and by 21 was past - just.
After road crossing I again nearly blew it as Tim nipped away - had to go back to punch no 24, then had a word with my (dehydrated, parched, sore) self, and just ran as hard as i could to "catch" Tim - didnt' manage it (quite), and he's 59 & was tiring too - we finished about 3 seconds apart.
Clive had done enough to pass me, & Chas was the fastest again today, so my podium yesterday was wiped out & I finished 4th. The worst possible place. But i'd expected top 8, so have to be pleased.
https://race-results.info/live/1662/?page=coursepa...
https://www.strava.com/activities/2308526449
Saturday Apr 20, 2019 #
2 PM
Orienteering race 38:44 [5] 6.27 km (6:11 / km) +94m 5:45 / km
shoes: Innov8 MudClaw 300 2019
JK Middle, Old Windmill Hill, M55L, 5.4km, 175m, 24 controls. 38:44, 2nd.
Good run, despite nerves & hot weather & the stress of Chas starting 4 mins behind me. Got a little lost en route to no 2, then no 3 was fine then I stopped at no 4 to show a little girl where she was (10 seconds) - sorry, I'm not mean enough to leave her there at a "wrong" control (not wrong for me!)
caught Nick L shortly after & stung myself in nettle patch passing him en route to no 6. took east route over canal, then with Duncan H (& Kimb, both moving well) for 9-10-11, (he on M50), then on my own, dry mouth, nervous re. Chas, and trying to "keep my shit together" . Startlingly, I did, and really didn't mess up, tho got lucky on no 15 & no 20. Contouring in to no 12 seemed a good one. no 14 was good as I accidentlly found the pit which proved a perfect AP. Small 10 sec misses here & there. Finished & was a minute up on Clive & Tim T, but not officially leading , ever, as Nick Dennis of BOk had posted a sub-34 min time when his splits printout showed -20.00 at no 1. EMIT - gotta love it. So unreliable, no one knows what the hell is going on!!!!
After no 20, I let rip but didn't feel quite my usual self - the heat - ouch. 10k tomorrow - bloody hell.
Chas rapidly finished close behind me (winning in 36:58), and holding him off made me quietly pleased with myself whatever the others ran. Can i do it tomorrow? (a possibly angry Tett, 2-0 down to me now, starting 4 mins after me :-( )
https://www.strava.com/activities/2305300834
result: http://www.thejk.org.uk/jkwebsite/files/JK2019/Day...
Good run, despite nerves & hot weather & the stress of Chas starting 4 mins behind me. Got a little lost en route to no 2, then no 3 was fine then I stopped at no 4 to show a little girl where she was (10 seconds) - sorry, I'm not mean enough to leave her there at a "wrong" control (not wrong for me!)
caught Nick L shortly after & stung myself in nettle patch passing him en route to no 6. took east route over canal, then with Duncan H (& Kimb, both moving well) for 9-10-11, (he on M50), then on my own, dry mouth, nervous re. Chas, and trying to "keep my shit together" . Startlingly, I did, and really didn't mess up, tho got lucky on no 15 & no 20. Contouring in to no 12 seemed a good one. no 14 was good as I accidentlly found the pit which proved a perfect AP. Small 10 sec misses here & there. Finished & was a minute up on Clive & Tim T, but not officially leading , ever, as Nick Dennis of BOk had posted a sub-34 min time when his splits printout showed -20.00 at no 1. EMIT - gotta love it. So unreliable, no one knows what the hell is going on!!!!
After no 20, I let rip but didn't feel quite my usual self - the heat - ouch. 10k tomorrow - bloody hell.
Chas rapidly finished close behind me (winning in 36:58), and holding him off made me quietly pleased with myself whatever the others ran. Can i do it tomorrow? (a possibly angry Tett, 2-0 down to me now, starting 4 mins after me :-( )
https://www.strava.com/activities/2305300834
result: http://www.thejk.org.uk/jkwebsite/files/JK2019/Day...
Friday Apr 19, 2019 #
Event: JK 2019
2 PM
Orienteering race (Urban) 15:30 [5] 3.32 km (4:40 / km) +18m 4:33 / km
shoes: Saucony Fastwitch 6
JK Sprint, Aldershot barracks - hot, fast, furious. Very hard leg to no 16, which i ballsed up & panicked, making it worse.lost 45-50 seconds IMO. Also lost 20 secs on no 19, went too far round buildings, just worn out now with LH calf "snithcing" & stressing me out. V dry mouth & mentally / physically beaten up by the end.
So not pleased with 5th, miles down on Quentin, and 45 secs behind Nigel. Clive DQed outrageously; 1:20 up on me :-( . This day will be remembered for EMIT fail rather than O results, which is grim.
V pleased to see Megan win! :-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2302393368
https://race-results.info/live/1660/?page=coursepa...
So not pleased with 5th, miles down on Quentin, and 45 secs behind Nigel. Clive DQed outrageously; 1:20 up on me :-( . This day will be remembered for EMIT fail rather than O results, which is grim.
V pleased to see Megan win! :-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/2302393368
https://race-results.info/live/1660/?page=coursepa...
Thursday Apr 18, 2019 #
Note
(sick) (rest day)
Blood sugars really high - 17mmol. Should be 10 in the morning, & most people are 5-7 after food.
This will kill me by the time I'm 70. (my Dad, & his Dad, both died age 60, so that would be a result, actually) (I'm nearly 55.....)
Really itching to climb today (addicted post-France). Perhaps i should. That will bring my blood sugars down.
I guess I need to start thinking seriously about quitting beer.
Jesus.
EDIT: "ill" - diabetes, Atypical type2. This isn't affecting the JK.
EDIT2: blood down 70% after starving myself all morning . 9mmol!!!! rollercoaster. Water & coffee life .
EDIT3: mmol under 7 late afternoon. Will I bonk at the JK????? :-0
This will kill me by the time I'm 70. (my Dad, & his Dad, both died age 60, so that would be a result, actually) (I'm nearly 55.....)
Really itching to climb today (addicted post-France). Perhaps i should. That will bring my blood sugars down.
I guess I need to start thinking seriously about quitting beer.
Jesus.
EDIT: "ill" - diabetes, Atypical type2. This isn't affecting the JK.
EDIT2: blood down 70% after starving myself all morning . 9mmol!!!! rollercoaster. Water & coffee life .
EDIT3: mmol under 7 late afternoon. Will I bonk at the JK????? :-0
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019 #
12 PM
Running 45:35 [3] 9.12 km (5:00 / km) +117m 4:42 / km
shoes: Innov8 MudClaw 300 2019
Steady run on stoke park pur down in brand new fluoro Mudclaw 300s. Tried to find mud. Had a map or two in my hand..
9km, that will do. Now to taper. Felt light. which is bad, as apparently (today) found out my diabetes is MUCH worse - nearly 15% worse. So I need to eat less, less carbs, less sugar.
They're going to try to change my drugs. How can this be, I'm so skinny? If i eat less sugary /
(fat is fine tho - we've all been sold the lie since the 80s that fat is bad: it's not - sugar is bad). (fatty pork chops are the best, and exceedingly good for you) (fatty well-cooked lamb too). I'm avoiding the "extra lean" stuff in supermarkets now.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2297297703
9km, that will do. Now to taper. Felt light. which is bad, as apparently (today) found out my diabetes is MUCH worse - nearly 15% worse. So I need to eat less, less carbs, less sugar.
They're going to try to change my drugs. How can this be, I'm so skinny? If i eat less sugary /
(fat is fine tho - we've all been sold the lie since the 80s that fat is bad: it's not - sugar is bad). (fatty pork chops are the best, and exceedingly good for you) (fatty well-cooked lamb too). I'm avoiding the "extra lean" stuff in supermarkets now.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2297297703