Training Log Archive: Mark3In the 7 days ending May 10, 2015:
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Sunday May 10, 2015 #
Orienteering race (BOC Middle Distance) 1:03:36 [5] 8.69 km (7:19 / km) +242m 6:25 / km
(injured)
Rubbish; really really bad.
(1) orienteering really badly. Can't cope with areas like this - need to talk to someone who can and find out how to do it. Made mistakes on pretty much every leg. Didn't enjoy it at all. Horrible area.
(2) twisted ankle at 11; tried to run it off but that didn't work. hobbled round rest of course. currently on ice. this is not an excuse for my terrible run; it was going to be terrible anyway.
(3)knee started to hurt again. after being fine yesterday! so annoying.
The only good thing that happened was that after I got to the end they told me I'd mispunched (we've decided to coin this "miswaved" for Emitag). Hardly surprising since there were loads of controls and I didn't check any codes after number 11. The guy was like "If you want to query it, see that man over there..." - I did not want to query it. Never been relieved to MP before.
Wish I'd have driven back to Bristol after the sprint and not have bothered! Made me seriously consider being a solely urban/sprint orienteer and giving up this forest nonsense...or maybe just avoiding areas like this!
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61875544
(1) orienteering really badly. Can't cope with areas like this - need to talk to someone who can and find out how to do it. Made mistakes on pretty much every leg. Didn't enjoy it at all. Horrible area.
(2) twisted ankle at 11; tried to run it off but that didn't work. hobbled round rest of course. currently on ice. this is not an excuse for my terrible run; it was going to be terrible anyway.
(3)knee started to hurt again. after being fine yesterday! so annoying.
The only good thing that happened was that after I got to the end they told me I'd mispunched (we've decided to coin this "miswaved" for Emitag). Hardly surprising since there were loads of controls and I didn't check any codes after number 11. The guy was like "If you want to query it, see that man over there..." - I did not want to query it. Never been relieved to MP before.
Wish I'd have driven back to Bristol after the sprint and not have bothered! Made me seriously consider being a solely urban/sprint orienteer and giving up this forest nonsense...or maybe just avoiding areas like this!
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61875544
Saturday May 9, 2015 #
12 PM
Orienteering race (BOC Sprint Heat) 17:24 [5] 3.93 km (4:26 / km) +37m 4:14 / km
shoes: Saucony Virrata 2
Good. Mistake on 17, confusion between olive green OOB, hedge green OOB and that shade of green you're allowed to cross. +30s going back around.
Apart from that, speed was ok, knee didn't hurt, good fun. Happy days. Nowhere near A final as expected but pretty high up B.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61750210
Apart from that, speed was ok, knee didn't hurt, good fun. Happy days. Nowhere near A final as expected but pretty high up B.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61750210
2 PM
Orienteering race (BOC Sprint B Final) 16:42 [5] 3.65 km (4:35 / km) +28m 4:24 / km
shoes: Saucony Virrata 2
Mostly good, marred by one silly mistake...
Successful to 12. Then 13, saw that there was a choice and picked the easy route since thought they were equidistant. Retrospectively, the (slightly) more complex route was 20s shorter, so bad choice. Maybe need to spend a bit more time on planning legs like this because made this exact judgement at Gloucester as well; thinking choices were equal where actually not. But not that annoying when compared with major mistake on 16...tearing downhill through wood, unable to read map at same time and then clearly not thinking straight - trivial control site but focussed on wrong building and ended up in parade ground; couldn't work out what had gone wrong for ages ("this is all concrete, but I was expecting grass - why would they map concrete as yellow? there are meant to be trees; but there are no trees-what is going on??") then so annoyed, went to wrong control on parallel feature first. Even more annoyed after that. Just a concentration lapse but very frustrating, especially since heat went so well. +60s and dropped from 13th ->24th place.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61769372
Note to self - tried various Emitag positions and one which works best is upside down in the palm.
Successful to 12. Then 13, saw that there was a choice and picked the easy route since thought they were equidistant. Retrospectively, the (slightly) more complex route was 20s shorter, so bad choice. Maybe need to spend a bit more time on planning legs like this because made this exact judgement at Gloucester as well; thinking choices were equal where actually not. But not that annoying when compared with major mistake on 16...tearing downhill through wood, unable to read map at same time and then clearly not thinking straight - trivial control site but focussed on wrong building and ended up in parade ground; couldn't work out what had gone wrong for ages ("this is all concrete, but I was expecting grass - why would they map concrete as yellow? there are meant to be trees; but there are no trees-what is going on??") then so annoyed, went to wrong control on parallel feature first. Even more annoyed after that. Just a concentration lapse but very frustrating, especially since heat went so well. +60s and dropped from 13th ->24th place.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61769372
Note to self - tried various Emitag positions and one which works best is upside down in the palm.
Friday May 8, 2015 #
Note
(rest day)
Thursday May 7, 2015 #
Running race (Wrington Woodland TACH) 40:22 [5] 9.56 km (4:13 / km) +232m 3:46 / km
(injured) shoes: X-Talon 190 (orange)[9.5]
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61588082
9th/111(ish)
Good fun race, slow slightly uphill start through Goblin Coombe for about 3k; more or less with the leading pack, then Southville pulled away at the front. Unfortunately the two main downhills were road-based so lost places on those, got some back on the uphills but not enough...found the climbs quite hard.
2 mins down on Matt Burns at the front; not too shabby.
9th/111(ish)
Good fun race, slow slightly uphill start through Goblin Coombe for about 3k; more or less with the leading pack, then Southville pulled away at the front. Unfortunately the two main downhills were road-based so lost places on those, got some back on the uphills but not enough...found the climbs quite hard.
2 mins down on Matt Burns at the front; not too shabby.
Wednesday May 6, 2015 #
Orienteering race (BOK Urban Bristol Uni) 39:51 [5] 8.5 km (4:41 / km) +127m 4:22 / km
(injured) shoes: Saucony Virrata 2
2nd.
Doing pretty well until 6 where the possie of student spectators put me off and I exited the control towards an uncrossable wall and had to go back around - +30s
Absolutely smashed 6-7 which I knew would be down past the finish; unfortunately neglected to even glance at 8 so had no idea of exit direction or anything, consequently route to 8 was poor and involved climbing over an (unmapped) gate...not really planners fault as I bet he didn't expect anyone to take my route! +30s
Bit gormless on 9 not checking control description to see it was atop something. +30s
Lost a bit of of time on 10 thinking could get through somewhere couldn't, but not too much.
That was a good sprint-style section of the course, but I actually think most of my losses were due to 1:5k rather than 1:4k which would be usual for a sprint. Roll on saturday!
String of consistently quick legs until 21-22 - bit upset here about lack of line break; wasn't clear if you could get through somewhere and I went to check - and you couldn't. Don't think this was really my fault. +1m
So lost 2:30, and 1 min down on Tom, so victory was clearly there for the taking!
Knee and eye both ok.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61470199
Doing pretty well until 6 where the possie of student spectators put me off and I exited the control towards an uncrossable wall and had to go back around - +30s
Absolutely smashed 6-7 which I knew would be down past the finish; unfortunately neglected to even glance at 8 so had no idea of exit direction or anything, consequently route to 8 was poor and involved climbing over an (unmapped) gate...not really planners fault as I bet he didn't expect anyone to take my route! +30s
Bit gormless on 9 not checking control description to see it was atop something. +30s
Lost a bit of of time on 10 thinking could get through somewhere couldn't, but not too much.
That was a good sprint-style section of the course, but I actually think most of my losses were due to 1:5k rather than 1:4k which would be usual for a sprint. Roll on saturday!
String of consistently quick legs until 21-22 - bit upset here about lack of line break; wasn't clear if you could get through somewhere and I went to check - and you couldn't. Don't think this was really my fault. +1m
So lost 2:30, and 1 min down on Tom, so victory was clearly there for the taking!
Knee and eye both ok.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move61470199
Tuesday May 5, 2015 #
Note
(injured) (rest day)
Walked down to see how much of that road they've built.
0%.
0%.
Monday May 4, 2015 #
Note
(injured)
Exciting early-morning trip to Bristol Eye Hospital A&E.
Note - Bank Holiday Monday 5 mins after they open is an excellent time to visit A&E.
Have scratched my cornea, probably in those dense woods on sat. Every time I blinked it's been catching on my eyelid, basically gradually making it worse. Did not get a lot of sleep (I guess REM sleep not going to happen in this situation).
Got some ointment (note - not drops. Ointment. Like cream. For the eye. This is exactly as unpleasant to apply as it sounds).
Can't drive at the moment as can't see properly after putting ointment in.
Ointment hurts for approx. 2 hours after application.
Need to apply ointment every 2 hours.
Sigh.
Hopefully will be better by Wednesday - have to go back to eye place if not better in 36 hours.
Looking at Routegadget, looks like interesting courses at Headless Hill so disappointed to miss it; on the plus side gives knee more time to recover for Wednesday.
Note - Bank Holiday Monday 5 mins after they open is an excellent time to visit A&E.
Have scratched my cornea, probably in those dense woods on sat. Every time I blinked it's been catching on my eyelid, basically gradually making it worse. Did not get a lot of sleep (I guess REM sleep not going to happen in this situation).
Got some ointment (note - not drops. Ointment. Like cream. For the eye. This is exactly as unpleasant to apply as it sounds).
Can't drive at the moment as can't see properly after putting ointment in.
Ointment hurts for approx. 2 hours after application.
Need to apply ointment every 2 hours.
Sigh.
Hopefully will be better by Wednesday - have to go back to eye place if not better in 36 hours.
Looking at Routegadget, looks like interesting courses at Headless Hill so disappointed to miss it; on the plus side gives knee more time to recover for Wednesday.