Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Warm-up/cool-down.

BUSA Relays. I ran for an unofficial Oxford 3rd team, consisting of me and Per Forsberg (no, not the legendary announcer, not even his namesake.) I had the option of also running the 3rd leg if I felt like it, but I didn't feel like it. The relay went on a 1:5000 map of the University of Durham campus and surrounding steep hillside. The first part of the course went through the woods on the hillside, and I had some problems getting used to the scale there, and squandered about 1:40 there on a few controls. I went through spectator control about halfway through the course in 8th, about a minute down on the lead. I passed two guys on the next climb, one more on a run across a large, open moor, and soon found myself chasing the lead pack of three, with one other guy having disappeared somewhere. By now we entered the campus part of the course, and the pace picked up. I spiked the next two controls and then took my own route choice on a long leg, climbing on a trail instead of up a slippery slope. Two controls later, I was with the leaders. The pace picked up again. The SHUOC guy ran to the wrong control and disappeared. The EUOC guy did the same thing just a bit later, and it was down to David Roome and me on the last couple of legs. David punched the last control first and stayed ahead, but it still felt very nice to battle back to the lead pack in the second half of the course. Per ran a very good 2nd leg, and I was almost tempted to go out again on 3rd, but let Kat persuade me that this would have been foolish and unnecessary.
Results: http://www.dur.ac.uk/orienteering.club/busa/classa...