Training Log Archive: Old DanielIn the 31 days ending Jul 31, 2013:
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2013 #
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Rest day
Tuesday Jul 30, 2013 #
orienteering race 1:08:20 [5] 6.88 km (9:56 / km)
Culbin
24th at 5, 35th at 16, 46th at finish
24th at 5, 35th at 16, 46th at finish
Monday Jul 29, 2013 #
orienteering race 1:14:41 [5] 7.65 km (9:46 / km)
Carse of Ardersier
19th at 2, 46th at 23 finished in 65th. Never really got going today
19th at 2, 46th at 23 finished in 65th. Never really got going today
Sunday Jul 28, 2013 #
orienteering 1:06:13 [5] 6.65 km (9:57 / km)
Lossie
4th at 4, 9th at 11 coming out of complex - a bit slower in heather covered vague - 19th at 18 - horrendous in green finished 57th
Only really competitive day- shame
4th at 4, 9th at 11 coming out of complex - a bit slower in heather covered vague - 19th at 18 - horrendous in green finished 57th
Only really competitive day- shame
Saturday Jul 27, 2013 #
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Drive up to Inverness
Friday Jul 26, 2013 #
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Packed for Scotland (camping)
Thursday Jul 25, 2013 #
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Travelled to Derby from Manchester and back to Bristol in evening by train
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013 #
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Travelled to Manchester pm by train
Tuesday Jul 23, 2013 #
1 AM
off road 20:00 [3] 1.5 mi (13:20 / mi)
Leigh woods inc 7 x 1 min with 45 sec gap
2 AM
off road 1:12:00 [3] 7.0 mi (10:17 / mi)
Failand, Lower Failand loop through AC, back through Ashton Plantation with Richard
Monday Jul 22, 2013 #
off road 1:00:00 [3] 5.0 mi (12:00 / mi)
Twmbalan , struggling to keep up with the gorgeous girlies. its a tough job but someone's got to do it. Fab BBQ afterwards - thanks to Mark and Alice
Sunday Jul 21, 2013 #
off road 1:25:17 [3] 7.5 mi (11:22 / mi)
in heat of day, swineford, bitton railway &river, eston, back over Kelston round hill
Saturday Jul 20, 2013 #
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No training- pre occupied with fixing the car, the ashes the open, shopping mocking jays and the tour
Friday Jul 19, 2013 #
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no Training - flat tyre on car so had to walk to and from work. too hot and tired to be motivated to run
Thursday Jul 18, 2013 #
off road 58:26 [3] 5.0 mi (11:41 / mi)
Blaise from Coombe Dingle - hot again. A bit going through the motions. a few hills though
Wednesday Jul 17, 2013 #
1 AM
off road 15:00 [3] 1.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
Sadly Broke sports centre - Warm up and down including 4x1min
2 AM
orienteering race (Urban ) 42:16 [5] 5.8 km (7:17 / km)
Bradley Stoke Urban -very hot, good planning with lots of route choice, 3 Brooks wood provided variety 39.12 with missing control omitted. Ran hard some sub optimum routes and a miss in the wood - but a long way down on the leaders.
Top job Keith many thanks
Top job Keith many thanks
Tuesday Jul 16, 2013 #
1 AM
off road 1:06:16 [3] 6.0 mi (11:03 / mi)
Could not get to Pete's in time for run. So ran before travel to BBQ
Very hot, Downs, Blaise up to castle foot and back.
Very hot, Downs, Blaise up to castle foot and back.
2 AM
off road 50:00 [3] 5.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Bizzarly no traffic so arrived at Pete's in time to run. Scenic run pretty flat through pretty countryside and good views. No idea where we went but very picturesque. 9 on run more at BBQ. Jo has here garden full of flowers. So great setting for highly enjoyable evening. Many thanks to Pete & Jo
Monday Jul 15, 2013 #
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Shatterred and hot no running. GB in middle of heat wave
Sunday Jul 14, 2013 #
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Drove from Kumo to Helsinki and then flight home
Saturday Jul 13, 2013 #
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Ran Kainuu O week 4 and watched WM relay at Kolurinne, Vuokatti
orienteering race 1:27:24 [4] 6.0 km (14:34 / km)
Kainuu O Week 4
Vuokatti Vuokatinrinteet
Race around the ski slope - quite rocky.
Bad start - went in too soon off ski slope - half deliberate (keep it simple!)
Very slow - had to come out to other run and back in. Then just missed 2 in green. Small miss at 6 on boulder but much slower than Mark in the wood. Quick on the running leg back up the hill to 8 and then clean to finish.
Vuokatti Vuokatinrinteet
Race around the ski slope - quite rocky.
Bad start - went in too soon off ski slope - half deliberate (keep it simple!)
Very slow - had to come out to other run and back in. Then just missed 2 in green. Small miss at 6 on boulder but much slower than Mark in the wood. Quick on the running leg back up the hill to 8 and then clean to finish.
Friday Jul 12, 2013 #
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No running today went to natural history and Winter War museum in Kumo and then watched middle final at Kolurinne Vuokatti
Thursday Jul 11, 2013 #
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Middle qualifier at Vuokatti, Koljola - and then on to Kolurinne, Vuokatti to access middle Qualifier terrain for Kainuu O Week 3
orienteering race 1:49:56 [4] 6.9 km (15:56 / km)
Kainuu O week 3.
Vuokatti Porttivaara.
Back to more hilly typical Scandinavian terrain. Long run S to complex hill used in middle qualifier. Should have taken N route and used some path -(or S) but went pretty straight. So slow in wood! Lots a little (2mins) at control but over 30 mins to no1. Survived complex area by using top of hills. Not fast but ok , then lost 15 mins at no 9 a control in the green (they had to use green to avoid using middle final area. Bashed out through branches to road and back in. (Mark took a round route here!).
Bit of a disaster - almost last!
Vuokatti Porttivaara.
Back to more hilly typical Scandinavian terrain. Long run S to complex hill used in middle qualifier. Should have taken N route and used some path -(or S) but went pretty straight. So slow in wood! Lots a little (2mins) at control but over 30 mins to no1. Survived complex area by using top of hills. Not fast but ok , then lost 15 mins at no 9 a control in the green (they had to use green to avoid using middle final area. Bashed out through branches to road and back in. (Mark took a round route here!).
Bit of a disaster - almost last!
Wednesday Jul 10, 2013 #
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Ran Kainuu O week race 2 at Kumpula, Sotkamo -Long final area
orienteering race 50:52 [5] 6.1 km (8:20 / km)
Kainuu O week 2
Tipasoja Pandanpohjat
Wow - even better wood than day 1
Going out of the start land pushed you W of S when needed to be E had to banana to first control. Should have come back out and round the green but blundered through - came out at very odd angle - path did not do what I was expecting and suddenly no idea where I was and could not relocate. Ran on compass until land fitted. Cut corner on long leg 4 extra climb and needed to attack control in green twice - keep it simple. Small miss at no 6 wrong re-entrant and very complex 9 (followed train of runners to wrong flag)
Disappointed when race finished would have liked another 6km.
A British orienteer could/ should make no mistakes here. The mapping is so good
Tipasoja Pandanpohjat
Wow - even better wood than day 1
Going out of the start land pushed you W of S when needed to be E had to banana to first control. Should have come back out and round the green but blundered through - came out at very odd angle - path did not do what I was expecting and suddenly no idea where I was and could not relocate. Ran on compass until land fitted. Cut corner on long leg 4 extra climb and needed to attack control in green twice - keep it simple. Small miss at no 6 wrong re-entrant and very complex 9 (followed train of runners to wrong flag)
Disappointed when race finished would have liked another 6km.
A British orienteer could/ should make no mistakes here. The mapping is so good
Tuesday Jul 9, 2013 #
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Trained in morning at Sotkamo and then watched long final at Sotkamo, Kumpula
orienteering 1:00:00 [3] 6.0 km (10:00 / km)
Training.
Tipasoja Riekinkangas, Sotkama. Area from original Kainuu O week, delightful if time permitted would have done more
Tipasoja Riekinkangas, Sotkama. Area from original Kainuu O week, delightful if time permitted would have done more
Monday Jul 8, 2013 #
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Watched WM sprint qualifier at Vuokatti; Kainkulta, then ran men's race heat 1 and then travelled to Sotkamo for mens final. Possibly best day ever for British team
orienteering (urban ) 20:35 [4] 3.7 km (5:34 / km)
WM Men ran as spectator race Q1. In Finland it can be difficult to know if you are in a wood a town or both. An area of individual houses that you could dodge between, lots of changes of direction, occasional obstacles and use of the compass. Enjoyed this in preference to UK hunt the thimble. Contrast to more traditional final. Some would say not enough route choice. error at no 6 went to wrong control and had to come back - probably lost best part of 1 min - not too bad
Sunday Jul 7, 2013 #
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Travelled to Sotkamo - watched WM long qualifier and then ran Kainuu O week Day 1 at Kumpula, Sotkamo
orienteering race 59:28 [5] 7.3 km (8:09 / km)
Kainuu O week 1
Tipasoja Raatakangas
Part of the sandy, tar forest complex. This is the terrain you would dream of if you were to dream of orienteering. Runnable, undulating, complex, varied. Maps are superb. Race quite late in the day and hot.
A little to the S at 1 lost 30secs. Could not see the flag at charcoal platform at 5 lost 30secs. Uncharacteristically much of this area is fast open / not so fast young trees. No. 6 in young low visibility trees (white with odd bits of green) veg boundaries intermittent. The Finns concept of mapping vegetation is alien to us (but not wrong) -suddenly v difficult found 6 by coming back of the hill and 7 with compass. (Was time lost of gained here -Speaky - I could put my shirt on him getting it correct) missed qualification!) . Boiled in the open 11-12 and stupidly missed the easy 13.
A great days orienteering
Tipasoja Raatakangas
Part of the sandy, tar forest complex. This is the terrain you would dream of if you were to dream of orienteering. Runnable, undulating, complex, varied. Maps are superb. Race quite late in the day and hot.
A little to the S at 1 lost 30secs. Could not see the flag at charcoal platform at 5 lost 30secs. Uncharacteristically much of this area is fast open / not so fast young trees. No. 6 in young low visibility trees (white with odd bits of green) veg boundaries intermittent. The Finns concept of mapping vegetation is alien to us (but not wrong) -suddenly v difficult found 6 by coming back of the hill and 7 with compass. (Was time lost of gained here -Speaky - I could put my shirt on him getting it correct) missed qualification!) . Boiled in the open 11-12 and stupidly missed the easy 13.
A great days orienteering
Saturday Jul 6, 2013 #
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Travel to Finland - camped at Kussimo
Friday Jul 5, 2013 #
off road 1:15:00 [3] 7.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
Ran with Laura - loop of Downs, Hollybush lane up through Blaise on to Castle and back. Very good to catch up
Thursday Jul 4, 2013 #
flat efforts (grass) 45:00 [5] 4.0 mi (11:15 / mi)
Laura was in Bristol and came around. Ran on Purdown but short of time so did some efforts 5x 2mins far too fast for me and breathing was awful. Had to bail out at 5 and just run back
Wednesday Jul 3, 2013 #
1 AM
off road 15:00 [3] 1.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
Warm up at Blaise
2 AM
orienteering race 43:10 [5] 4.7 km (9:11 / km)
Blaise castle. New map is superb a joy to run on. Very torn between just running and reading map.
Made a horroible Horlicks of the course. Indecisive as to route to 1, ended up doing neither. Ran up usual path towards 6 but read alternative so bodged around and did not notice street event bit at 11 just assumed control in thick wood on hill so concentrated on knowing entry point - down hill, wikes! where is the control - on other side of uncrossable wall. No path along wall so back up hill tail well and truly between legs.
Made a horroible Horlicks of the course. Indecisive as to route to 1, ended up doing neither. Ran up usual path towards 6 but read alternative so bodged around and did not notice street event bit at 11 just assumed control in thick wood on hill so concentrated on knowing entry point - down hill, wikes! where is the control - on other side of uncrossable wall. No path along wall so back up hill tail well and truly between legs.
Tuesday Jul 2, 2013 #
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In Derby late back no running
Monday Jul 1, 2013 #
off road 1:07:00 [3] 7.0 mi (9:34 / mi)
Leigh Woods normal route - nice steady run on a super evening