Training Log Archive: IanW

Wet and miserable outside - good excuse for a rest...

Shadowing on Rowney Warren - brown only map. Everything makes sense when you're going relatively slow/have a chance to recover at each control...

...but trying to run faster on the contour-only map around part of the world ranking course from 2006 was a different prospect. Binned 2 minutes on the second control after drifting too far left, and then 30" on the wrong spur at #4 - parallel features in spur/gully terrain can be tricky with nothing but contours, and both went over the flatter bit of the area. In the detail was fine as plenty to keep you on line. Good training!

Went back and did 1-2 again as a little warm down. Just a little more care and a compass-check across the first valley was all that was needed. Took 1'30" less, even at slower running speed...

Test run of Chasing Sprint prologue

Test run of Chasing Sprint chase

Shotover mapping - checking areas that didn't feel quite right on the test runs.

Clerkenwell Street-O - not really with it, reading wrong questions and changing control/route choice far too often. Couple of parallel street errors too. But got out for an hour's run, and a good catch up with people post-race.

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