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Sunday Apr 8, 2007 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.22 mi (9:01 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Warm-up and a shuffle for a cool-down: Kat could easily keep up with me walking as I cooled down.
Orienteering race 1:48:56 [4] *** 15.9 km (6:51 / km) +575m 5:48 / km
spiked:25/32c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
JK 2007 Classic Distance.
A monster of a race on two parts of the Forest of Dean, known as New Beechenhurst and The Pludds. How do the Brits come up with these names???
I decided to just run hard from the start and hope not to crash too badly later on in the race. From personal experience, I know that if I try taking it easy from the start and trying to save energy till the end, I just never manage to get into racing mode.
It went well early on, with about 1:30 lost on The Pludds, before we had a break. That's right. This race, a World Ranking Event, no less, included a road crossing for which you were allotted 2 minutes which were subtracted from the final time. This is so weird! Can you imagine a marathon race with a 2 minute break in the middle??? The rationale for this is that the runners don't rush across the road and get themselves killed, but couldn't they just have the marshals halt traffic for a few seconds when runners came?
Anyway, although I had prepared myself for this, I still lost concentration after the break and ran without a plan to the next control, losing a minute or so. It went better after that, and I only had another 1-2 minutes of errors over the next 13 controls through the spectator control, including no mistakes on one weird hill with lots and lots of contour detail on it. There were lots of people looking very lost there. After the spectator control I got very tired and forced myself to take very safe route choices, which mostly worked well, though I still blew two controls. I was happy to see and punch the last control and was all set to jog into the finish, when Jenny Johnson, the women's winner, came sprinting up behind me, forcing me to run hard to avoid being girled in the finish chute...
All in all, about 6-7 minutes of mistakes for the whole course and a pretty strong run physically.
Ended up 18th this time, about 1 min/km slower than Oli Johnson, who was by far the best on the day.
Splits: http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/default.a...
Route gadget: http://www.jk2007.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti...
A monster of a race on two parts of the Forest of Dean, known as New Beechenhurst and The Pludds. How do the Brits come up with these names???
I decided to just run hard from the start and hope not to crash too badly later on in the race. From personal experience, I know that if I try taking it easy from the start and trying to save energy till the end, I just never manage to get into racing mode.
It went well early on, with about 1:30 lost on The Pludds, before we had a break. That's right. This race, a World Ranking Event, no less, included a road crossing for which you were allotted 2 minutes which were subtracted from the final time. This is so weird! Can you imagine a marathon race with a 2 minute break in the middle??? The rationale for this is that the runners don't rush across the road and get themselves killed, but couldn't they just have the marshals halt traffic for a few seconds when runners came?
Anyway, although I had prepared myself for this, I still lost concentration after the break and ran without a plan to the next control, losing a minute or so. It went better after that, and I only had another 1-2 minutes of errors over the next 13 controls through the spectator control, including no mistakes on one weird hill with lots and lots of contour detail on it. There were lots of people looking very lost there. After the spectator control I got very tired and forced myself to take very safe route choices, which mostly worked well, though I still blew two controls. I was happy to see and punch the last control and was all set to jog into the finish, when Jenny Johnson, the women's winner, came sprinting up behind me, forcing me to run hard to avoid being girled in the finish chute...
All in all, about 6-7 minutes of mistakes for the whole course and a pretty strong run physically.
Ended up 18th this time, about 1 min/km slower than Oli Johnson, who was by far the best on the day.
Splits: http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/default.a...
Route gadget: http://www.jk2007.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti...