Training Log Archive: Mark3

Woken by Ifor with the words 'James set off at 3:20; if he finishes in less than 40 minutes you're going to need two headtorches...'

I had zero headtorches with me.

Big difference being in the A team - last time doing Harvester I set off about 7am.

James back about 4:45 so light by then, luckily for me. Setting off about 15 mins behind Drongo and on my own, so no pressure. A bit tentative at the start and a minute lost on 4 in the circle - it was lower down than I expected. Then good until 7-8 where lost another minute being on the low path rather than the higher one and getting the crags confused.
Good through the quarry ones.then tried to stay high and avoid some climb on the long leg to 12; this has little effect and straighter was probably better.similarly to 13, took the safe path route rather than hoping to find a way through the gorse.
Didn't see anyone until the down-up leg to 15 where I espied Drongo in the distance; seems I'd caught them up! This was a surprise. Pushed quite hard on the last few to hand Clive over about 5s down on Ben Stevens.

2nd team (quite a long way) behind NOC. Drongo and FVO both also ahead of us, but mispunched.
Was winning leg 6 when I left which was good even though could've been a couple of minutes faster.

Really wanted to do Tour de Calch and had decided to come home and sleep for a bit then set off. Really struggling to keep my eyes open for the drive back, but then couldn't get to sleep once got to bed - so decided against the race - shame because the race would've been fine, but the drive would not.

4th place (so improving on my 5th leg 1 2014 and 5th leg 2 2015)

Slightly confused in a few places near the start as hadn't recce'd that bit (and hadn't looked at the map closely enough at the place where we descended from cleeve hill) but no time lost. Top 3 went off into the distance and settled into a group 4,5,6.got to the road section and tried to open up a gap; we dropped one guy but the other stayed with me. I ensured to get just ahead before the downhill and as expected I destroyed him here, and actually caught 3rd.

Over the road and up the hill though, and 3rd disappeared again and 4th caught me.felt tough up the hill, but was running strongly at the top and regained 4th.

Pleased to finish under the hour (just) although its a very arbitrary goal...

Team in 3rd place after 3 legs despite being 13th ish leg 1,6th leg 2 and 4th leg 3.I think we lost a bit of time on 4, but we have a very strong 5,6 and 8 so hopefully can pull back some time...whatever happens should be B&W best result.
Women's team winning - but they're used to that!

Cold has turned into a sore throat - I tend to get symptoms spread out rather than all at once - hopefully this is the last one!

C • Chip Harriers 2

Looking forward to being able to breathe through my nose. However I think the difficulty with finding any pace today is more likely down to the last 5 days - probably need a rest day.

#1 was a good leg - I think I did it okay, just very slowly with a lot of stopping and thinking - but I didn't get trapped...

Got the decisions right on 2 and 3, but not 4 - I'd decided to go south and so came out of the school that way, but then changed my mind and went north. I think south is better (although it's close) but should have come out of school to north if going north. Basically - should've stuck with original choice rather than changing! Good planning from Paul.

Happy with route to 7 - Adam went E here but I think W is shorter? Although potentially more climb and more complex/more corners - so it's probably close.

Didn't spot that river on way to 12 was uncrossable and so elected to run along it for a bit and see if I could spot a way through the green - then when I'd committed to that route choice, noticed the black lines...
route still wasn't bad, but I think east is better, and I'd have gone that way if I'd been thinking straight.

Lost a bit of time on 18 due to navigating to 15 (trying to go round the loop again); maybe 30s. More bits of time lost on 21 (confused by crossing - my fault), 22 (should have cut in at the last moment and stayed on the reliable road surface for longer) and 24 (took the correct route E but stayed on the slippery path rather than coming back to the big one).

Just over 4 mins behind Adam, and 1ish behind Tom - 3rd/42
http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Splits show that Tom was simply running faster than me - nearly as fast as Adam, actually - but made more mistakes. I managed to take one split away from Adam - 24-25 - by one second. #victory

9th place: http://www.westonac.co.uk/results/2016/Beacon_Batc...
Passed by a lot of people up the first hill, but got back most of them on the downhill, and then on the flat at the top of the second hill. I don't think I'm getting faster running up, but my recovery at the top is definitely improving.
Andy Dunn was pretty close to Duncan near the front, so he's running really well, which bodes well for our CWR team :)
B&W 2nd team.

250m,500m,1k,2k,1k,500m,250m
First time doing this session. I dislike any session with a 2k in it. Massive recoveries so HR was coming right down, but still felt pretty dreadful. Still a bit ill so hope its that,but much better than before.

250s: 46,44
500s: 1:42,1:39
1ks: 3:32,3:36
2k: 7:26

Not too dreadful i suppose. Looking forward to beacon batch...