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Sunday Jul 31, 2016 #
Note
(injured)
Waking around Brean Down, wishing I was running. The winner beat my time by about 20 seconds, suggesting that it would've been a good battle!
Daryl didn't beat my time :)
My mum destroyed Chris by about 8 minutes.
Daryl didn't beat my time :)
My mum destroyed Chris by about 8 minutes.
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Saturday Jul 30, 2016 #
Walking 3:55:00 [1] 15.0 km (15:40 / km)
(injured)
Sedate walk down from the downs to the centre, up to Leigh woods and over the bridge.
This is what passes for training at the moment.
This is what passes for training at the moment.
Friday Jul 29, 2016 #
Note
(injured) (rest day)
Thursday Jul 28, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
S+C 6:30 [5]
(injured)
Wednesday Jul 27, 2016 #
S+C 8:30 [5]
(injured)
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Tuesday Jul 26, 2016 #
S+C 10:00 [5]
(injured)
Running - Road/Track (Walking pace jog) 35:00 [1] 5.0 km (7:00 / km)
(injured) shoes: Nike Pegasus 32
Still painful.
Monday Jul 25, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
S+C 6:30 [5]
(injured)
Sunday Jul 24, 2016 #
Note
(injured) (rest day)
Replaced the ball valve in the cold water tank in the loft. This would probably have taken a plumber 10 minutes.
It took me 8 hours.
And involved two trips to B+Q, and cost £20. Still, a plumber would have charged at least a hundred I'd have thought, and it's not like I had anything better to do :(
It took me 8 hours.
And involved two trips to B+Q, and cost £20. Still, a plumber would have charged at least a hundred I'd have thought, and it's not like I had anything better to do :(
Crosstraining 15:00 [3]
(injured)
Saturday Jul 23, 2016 #
Cycling (Pokéday) 1:15:08 [3] 24.83 km (19.8 kph) +227m
(injured) shoes: Specialized Sirrus Sport [bike
Home to town (better route; slower moving time since longer, but quicker total time since less road).
Much more pleasant on the cycle paths.
Then up to the downs for the pokéwalk (I'm so cool) then return a terrible route along Gloucester road 6 hours later.
Much more pleasant on the cycle paths.
Then up to the downs for the pokéwalk (I'm so cool) then return a terrible route along Gloucester road 6 hours later.
Friday Jul 22, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Thursday Jul 21, 2016 #
Note
(injured) (rest day)
Sulking.
Anyone know anyone who wants a Croeso entry and/or accommodation from Saturday to Tuesday?
Anyone know anyone who wants a Croeso entry and/or accommodation from Saturday to Tuesday?
Wednesday Jul 20, 2016 #
6 PM
Running - Road/Track warm up/down (Leg test) 2:11 [3] 0.5 km (4:22 / km) +1m 4:19 / km
(injured) shoes: Nike Pegasus 32
Felt fine after 500m, so elected to try the orienteering.
7 PM
Orienteering - Urban race (Stockwood urban) 37:21 [4] 8.53 km (4:23 / km) +68m 4:13 / km
(injured) shoes: Nike Pegasus 32
Shouldn't have.
Felt ok for about 500m, then a dull she began which gradually got worse. Clearly not better, then.
Feeling ok fitness-wise but hard to try that hard when every step is painful (easily bearable, but grinds you down over time).
A few mistakes anyway; mostly control placement- or map-related:
1-confused by extra distinct path on ground
5-control on wrong lamppost
11-control on wrong lamppost
21-control at 'path end' was not visible from end of path
I assume these controls were put out by the Rushes and they've not been orienteering that long, so I forgive them. Sort of.
Miles behind Owain and Tom - I think if I'd been fully fit but still made the mistakes, they'd have beaten me anyway. Tom thinks they've tied for the series, so now I have to decide some rules for what happens in a tie...
Felt ok for about 500m, then a dull she began which gradually got worse. Clearly not better, then.
Feeling ok fitness-wise but hard to try that hard when every step is painful (easily bearable, but grinds you down over time).
A few mistakes anyway; mostly control placement- or map-related:
1-confused by extra distinct path on ground
5-control on wrong lamppost
11-control on wrong lamppost
21-control at 'path end' was not visible from end of path
I assume these controls were put out by the Rushes and they've not been orienteering that long, so I forgive them. Sort of.
Miles behind Owain and Tom - I think if I'd been fully fit but still made the mistakes, they'd have beaten me anyway. Tom thinks they've tied for the series, so now I have to decide some rules for what happens in a tie...
Tuesday Jul 19, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Monday Jul 18, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Sunday Jul 17, 2016 #
Cycling (To/from Bristol) 1:04:19 [3] 21.47 km (20.0 kph) +148m
(injured) shoes: Specialized Sirrus Sport [bike
Seeing what the commute to town would be like, just in case I have cause to need it...
Saturday Jul 16, 2016 #
Orienteering - Forest (Coopers Hill (jog)) 58:08 [3] +229m
(injured) shoes: X-Talon 212 (Jan16)
Too soon.
Just jogged/walked round which felt fine at the start but became uncomfortable 4-5. Therefore walked up all the hills. Actively painful on the walk back for the car park.
This made for very good accuracy!slight miss on 2 where I followed the path a bit too far, but otherwise basically perfect. Wish I could orienteer like that at speed!
Hopefully am still in a better place than after the fell race last week, so will try doing nothing for a bit in prep for Wales. Fitness will have to take a backseat to actually being able to compete...
EDIT:
http://www.ngocweb.com/results/results_16/L5res.pd...
10th/37 - quite pleased with this considering that I was mainly just trying to get round at whatever speed produced the least pain...
Just jogged/walked round which felt fine at the start but became uncomfortable 4-5. Therefore walked up all the hills. Actively painful on the walk back for the car park.
This made for very good accuracy!slight miss on 2 where I followed the path a bit too far, but otherwise basically perfect. Wish I could orienteer like that at speed!
Hopefully am still in a better place than after the fell race last week, so will try doing nothing for a bit in prep for Wales. Fitness will have to take a backseat to actually being able to compete...
EDIT:
http://www.ngocweb.com/results/results_16/L5res.pd...
10th/37 - quite pleased with this considering that I was mainly just trying to get round at whatever speed produced the least pain...
Friday Jul 15, 2016 #
Crosstraining 20:00 [3]
(injured)
Thursday Jul 14, 2016 #
Cycling 18:22 [3] 7.01 km (22.9 kph)
(injured) shoes: Specialized Sirrus Sport [bike
Think the crosstraining has improved my cycling #irrelevant
Crosstraining 15:00 [3]
(injured)
S+C 6:00 [5]
Wednesday Jul 13, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Tuesday Jul 12, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Monday Jul 11, 2016 #
Note
(injured) (rest day)
Sunday Jul 10, 2016 #
Running - Trail race (Fan y Big horseshoe) 1:27:41 [4] 16.6 km (5:17 / km) +655m 4:25 / km
(injured) shoes: X-Talon 212 (Jan16)
14th/137
http://www.breconfans.org.uk/Results?race=FAN+Y+BI...
Great race. Probably shouldn't have done it though - hip is back to where it was on Wednesday; possibly worse. But really enjoyed it, struggled a bit whenever there was any jumping necessary but I don't think it hurt my time too much. Did the downhill excellently. Some awesome views, rained a bit but not for too long and cleared at just the right times. Would definitely do this race again.
http://www.breconfans.org.uk/Results?race=FAN+Y+BI...
Great race. Probably shouldn't have done it though - hip is back to where it was on Wednesday; possibly worse. But really enjoyed it, struggled a bit whenever there was any jumping necessary but I don't think it hurt my time too much. Did the downhill excellently. Some awesome views, rained a bit but not for too long and cleared at just the right times. Would definitely do this race again.
Saturday Jul 9, 2016 #
Cycling (Bristol to Bath) 1:44:45 [2] 30.02 km (17.2 kph) +146m
(injured) shoes: Specialized Sirrus Sport [bike
Nice dinner at grillstock. I like grillstock.
Friday Jul 8, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
(injured)
Concluded it's not the crosstraining. Feels similar to Wednesday before running.hopefully will be fine for a jog tomorrow and then race on Sunday...
Thursday Jul 7, 2016 #
Crosstraining 40:00 [3]
(injured)
Test - if it hurts more tomorrow, crosstraining makes it worse.
Wednesday Jul 6, 2016 #
Orienteering - Urban race (Portishead urban) 40:20 [4] 8.57 km (4:42 / km) +88m 4:29 / km
(injured) shoes: Nike Pegasus 32
Disappointing performance.
Potentially serious issue with left hip flexor; thought that resting yesterday had eliminated this as it was fine before starting to run, but gradually getting more and more painful, especially when running up hills. Probably didn't lose a lot of time due to this but the faster I ran the more it hurt, so didn't push it.
Quite a few bad choices losing seconds each time, but then lost concentration totally on #15 (ironically while thinking "I'm doing pretty well not to have got confused thus far"), realised I'd done something wrong but assumed it was a different thing to what I'd actually done wrong and lost a whole minute being confused since everything looked the same. This is pretty unforgivable on an easy control on an urban.
Lost another 30s at least on #25 trying to get to it from the south. Then very slow through the rest of the controls in the woods trying not to fall over, and anything which affected balance was hurting :(
Home straight after finishing to apply ice.
Potentially serious issue with left hip flexor; thought that resting yesterday had eliminated this as it was fine before starting to run, but gradually getting more and more painful, especially when running up hills. Probably didn't lose a lot of time due to this but the faster I ran the more it hurt, so didn't push it.
Quite a few bad choices losing seconds each time, but then lost concentration totally on #15 (ironically while thinking "I'm doing pretty well not to have got confused thus far"), realised I'd done something wrong but assumed it was a different thing to what I'd actually done wrong and lost a whole minute being confused since everything looked the same. This is pretty unforgivable on an easy control on an urban.
Lost another 30s at least on #25 trying to get to it from the south. Then very slow through the rest of the controls in the woods trying not to fall over, and anything which affected balance was hurting :(
Home straight after finishing to apply ice.
Tuesday Jul 5, 2016 #
Crosstraining 30:00 [3]
Hip flexor (probably) is a bit sore so elected to miss 2 mile race as want to do Portishead o and Tintern.
Thought given I bought the crosstrainer to use while injured, now was a good time. Resistance 8, went fairly slowly. Legs pretty jelly-like when finished, so definitely having a benefit I think.
Thought given I bought the crosstrainer to use while injured, now was a good time. Resistance 8, went fairly slowly. Legs pretty jelly-like when finished, so definitely having a benefit I think.
Monday Jul 4, 2016 #
11 AM
Running - Road/Track (Recovery jog + drills) 45:33 [2] 4.56 km (9:59 / km) +62m 9:21 / km
Jog with my mum, including running drills while I made her do hill reps - lol. I had a go at one; it was pretty tough. I made her do 8.
7 PM
Running - Trail race (Blaise Blazer) 25:02 [5] 5.75 km (4:21 / km) +138m 3:53 / km
shoes: X-Talon 212 (Jan16)
EDIT: 10th/83
http://westburyharriers.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
First time doing the new course.
Was pleased to complete it without falling over tbh. Not as muddy as I thought it might be (obviously didn't rain as much in Bristol over the weekend as it did in the Lakes!) but x-Talons still a good choice, as was catching and overtaking people on the muddy paths. The mizunos would not have coped.
No chance of staying with Phil; he shot off at the beginning and was at least 20s up at the top of the 'big' hill; didn't see him then until the field at the end when I finished 12s down. Good work!
Hard to compare my time with previous years or anything which is bit of a shame; it seemed to go quite well though. Legs felt a bit tired but no real after effects from the weekend apart from a slight niggle in the... I don't know what it's called; very-top-of-thigh-just-below-hip-but-in-the-middle-of-the-left-leg muscle? It probably has a snappier name.
http://westburyharriers.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
First time doing the new course.
Was pleased to complete it without falling over tbh. Not as muddy as I thought it might be (obviously didn't rain as much in Bristol over the weekend as it did in the Lakes!) but x-Talons still a good choice, as was catching and overtaking people on the muddy paths. The mizunos would not have coped.
No chance of staying with Phil; he shot off at the beginning and was at least 20s up at the top of the 'big' hill; didn't see him then until the field at the end when I finished 12s down. Good work!
Hard to compare my time with previous years or anything which is bit of a shame; it seemed to go quite well though. Legs felt a bit tired but no real after effects from the weekend apart from a slight niggle in the... I don't know what it's called; very-top-of-thigh-just-below-hip-but-in-the-middle-of-the-left-leg muscle? It probably has a snappier name.
Sunday Jul 3, 2016 #
Running - Trail race (Saunders MM Day 2) 2:54:12 [5] 22.0 km (7:55 / km) +840m 6:39 / km
shoes: X-Talon 212 (Jan16)
As previous day, distance and time are approximate - straight line was 16.4km.
3rd overall; 5th today:
http://www.slmm.org.uk/2016/results/overall/harter...
Worse position, but closer to the Bunns. There was only really one route choice leg; where it was pretty close whether to go around the road or up and along a ridge. I chose the ridge mainly because it was good weather and I thought it would be awesome fun. And I was correct. Though I think we lost a few minutes against the road route.
Lost a few more minutes trying to cut a corner when it would have been faster to stay in the path on #4. Then some slightly suspicious grid referencing on the control descriptions left us looking in the wrong re-entrant (EDIT - actually I've just measured this and it was actually okay; so actually slightly suspicious plotting...) and that was a couple more minutes.
Then we had our best leg of the whole weekend and the only one we won - by a whole minute! Then another few easy legs down into the finish.
Out for much less time than the 'estimated winning times' implied, so could definitely have done a longer course, and will next time.
In general, the running was easier than the OMM just because the area contained more paths. Lots of legs had a path option - it wasn't necessarily best, but the option was there. This made it much less physically demanding and is probably the reason I didn't have any problem walking around afterwards.
3rd overall is a good result - annoying to be only 3 minutes behind 2nd because we definitely could have saved much more than that - but there's no way we could have been an hour and seven minutes quicker (!!) to catch the Bunns. Massive respect to them. Apparently the other team to beat us contains at least one extremely good fell runner who must have struggled with the navigation on day one, when it was harder, but beat us on the more straightforward second day.
Pretty grotty weather throughout but still really good fun. Scoping out Mourne next...
3rd overall; 5th today:
http://www.slmm.org.uk/2016/results/overall/harter...
Worse position, but closer to the Bunns. There was only really one route choice leg; where it was pretty close whether to go around the road or up and along a ridge. I chose the ridge mainly because it was good weather and I thought it would be awesome fun. And I was correct. Though I think we lost a few minutes against the road route.
Lost a few more minutes trying to cut a corner when it would have been faster to stay in the path on #4. Then some slightly suspicious grid referencing on the control descriptions left us looking in the wrong re-entrant (EDIT - actually I've just measured this and it was actually okay; so actually slightly suspicious plotting...) and that was a couple more minutes.
Then we had our best leg of the whole weekend and the only one we won - by a whole minute! Then another few easy legs down into the finish.
Out for much less time than the 'estimated winning times' implied, so could definitely have done a longer course, and will next time.
In general, the running was easier than the OMM just because the area contained more paths. Lots of legs had a path option - it wasn't necessarily best, but the option was there. This made it much less physically demanding and is probably the reason I didn't have any problem walking around afterwards.
3rd overall is a good result - annoying to be only 3 minutes behind 2nd because we definitely could have saved much more than that - but there's no way we could have been an hour and seven minutes quicker (!!) to catch the Bunns. Massive respect to them. Apparently the other team to beat us contains at least one extremely good fell runner who must have struggled with the navigation on day one, when it was harder, but beat us on the more straightforward second day.
Pretty grotty weather throughout but still really good fun. Scoping out Mourne next...
Saturday Jul 2, 2016 #
Running - Trail race (Saunders MM Day 1) 3:41:54 [5] 21.5 km (10:19 / km) +950m 8:27 / km
shoes: X-Talon 212 (Jan16)
Note - distance and climb are approximate since no GPS allowed!
2nd/89 today:
http://www.slmm.org.uk/2016/results/day1/harter_fe...
Destroyed by Nigel Bunn and his 15 year-old son by 44 minutes. Fairly small gaps behind. We were the only team in the chasing start for day 2, since this only extended 45 minutes behind the winners...
First error; in the Saunders the maps aren't pre-printed, you get a list of descriptions after the time starts, with grid references to plot. Being used to orienteering in the days of master maps, we stopped to plot the entire course at the beginning. The smarter teams just did this while walking up the first hill. We ran up the hill, but spent 9 minutes on grid references, which definitely left us net-behind. Something to learn for the future.
I chose to go round the path on #1 rather than straight-lining; it was always going to be marginal but looking at the splits, this is where we lost the most time of any leg over the two days. It wasn't helped by getting stuck in bracken at the end of the leg (which wouldn't have happened on the straight line, although we couldn't have known that) and also getting reentrants mixed up, coming down one spur too early (actually very close to the control but didn't realise), thinking we were wrong, crossing an additional stream, relocating on a tiny reentrant and then working out what we'd done. Given I was meant to be the navigator, this was not a great start. But we didn't know at this point how much time we'd lost, and also we'd run up the hill (which we saw literally no-one else doing) so we were still pretty confident.
Took good routes 2-3-4-5 and only a few minutes behind the Bunns on each. Stayed on the path for a bit too long on 6 and not reading the map closely enough resulted in a small amount of faffing which cost us a few minutes trying to get down somewhere vertical rather than on a path.
Awesome to finish 2nd, although we think if we'd entered one class harder we'd have won... but clearly the Bunns would too; except Nigel's son isn't old enough to do a longer course!
Feeling good with no injuries though.
2nd/89 today:
http://www.slmm.org.uk/2016/results/day1/harter_fe...
Destroyed by Nigel Bunn and his 15 year-old son by 44 minutes. Fairly small gaps behind. We were the only team in the chasing start for day 2, since this only extended 45 minutes behind the winners...
First error; in the Saunders the maps aren't pre-printed, you get a list of descriptions after the time starts, with grid references to plot. Being used to orienteering in the days of master maps, we stopped to plot the entire course at the beginning. The smarter teams just did this while walking up the first hill. We ran up the hill, but spent 9 minutes on grid references, which definitely left us net-behind. Something to learn for the future.
I chose to go round the path on #1 rather than straight-lining; it was always going to be marginal but looking at the splits, this is where we lost the most time of any leg over the two days. It wasn't helped by getting stuck in bracken at the end of the leg (which wouldn't have happened on the straight line, although we couldn't have known that) and also getting reentrants mixed up, coming down one spur too early (actually very close to the control but didn't realise), thinking we were wrong, crossing an additional stream, relocating on a tiny reentrant and then working out what we'd done. Given I was meant to be the navigator, this was not a great start. But we didn't know at this point how much time we'd lost, and also we'd run up the hill (which we saw literally no-one else doing) so we were still pretty confident.
Took good routes 2-3-4-5 and only a few minutes behind the Bunns on each. Stayed on the path for a bit too long on 6 and not reading the map closely enough resulted in a small amount of faffing which cost us a few minutes trying to get down somewhere vertical rather than on a path.
Awesome to finish 2nd, although we think if we'd entered one class harder we'd have won... but clearly the Bunns would too; except Nigel's son isn't old enough to do a longer course!
Feeling good with no injuries though.