Training Log Archive: АТ

EYOC Relay - Manastira

Results



First leg - 8th, 11th out of everyone. 1 miss at 11, whereby before this I was leading the train. After that just chasing. Okay but again without the miss would have been V good.

CD med Niels.

EYOC Long - Miikovtsi

GPS Tracking / Results



14th. Same as last year.

Few wobbles put me out of it. Good for the majority though.

EYOC Sprint - Tsaravets Fortress

GPS Tracking / Results

18th, 16th European.



Very cool area but very hard to orienteer, let alone race in. Anway will just describe the race and thoughts after.

On the way there we realised that we had planned perfectly where the start/ arena/ final loop was which was a nice confidence booster.

Quarantine was on an astro turf, fine no dramas there. A bit of a faff getting the gps vests and units set up but it was all sorted soon enough, and with plenty of time to get ready and WU. Warming up, legs felt very weird, almost too energetic but guess thats due to the massively reduced training load this week. Into -7, short jog up to the boxes, a few strides and then into the boxes ready to go.
I wasn't too nervous on the start line just anxious to get going, but this had to be supressed due to the very complex nature at the begginning of the course.

Starting I made sure to jog off the line, find the start on the map and work out what was going on, this was probs a good plan as the kite was 10m from the boxes and then the first control was about 30m away. Good, stable start, had sorted #2 knew where I needed to go to hit the entrance to the compound, it just looked a little wierd once there, a well no bother. #3 was my mistake, ploughed straight but forgot about the wall so had to stop, read and then boost to the crossing point. Damn, geeking should have sorted me out there. Ah well only ~10s lost.

#4, 5, 6, 7 all fine, not running fast just fairly smooth and ran okay up the hill. #8 had a little miss and probs not the best route but fine in reality. #9 was bad, I was just trying to use all the wrong features to navigate off, like steps and fences when in reality I should have walked this leg on google street view and know that I just had to boost downhill to the big bell thingy and then in. I just kept stopping and making sure I wasn't crossing anything then was surprised when I hit the bell. Ah well I guess that is just lack of prep and sprint technique.

#10 was fine but I was unsure it was mine so hesitated there to make sure, then the long drag down to spec.

We had talked through this as a team and I knew that I was just purely gonna try to plan the last section in this dead running time. I think I planned three control of it, one of which I won the split; time well spent.

The last section was good, probs just didn't run fast enough but I had geeked it well so no problems really.

Into the finish was probably the only chance I had to actually run properly. Then once finished I was bombarded by officials to get my gps stuff back.

A bit dissapointed at the finish with the result but I think that was the best I coukd have hoped for with my current sprinting ability. Anyway was cheered up by Megans domination of the W16s which was one of the highlights of the weekend :)

If I'm honest I think I just need to do more sprints so I can run more aggressively. Geeking was good but there is always more I could have done.

EYOC Sprint Model.

Not sure how relevant it was to tomorrow but good to stretch the legs a bit. Hilly and lots of steps. Also it is raining a lot which is making it V slippy on the cobbles.

EYOC Forest Model

Steep and vegetation varying from okay to grim. Also some bracken; scenes.

Easy with Niamh to and from Tescos for some final stuff. Big up the Bunns for putting us up for the night :)

Travelling for the rest of the day.

WU

2km Steady, 5 * ~200m

Taper session, feeling a bit hot and bothered in the heat, also not feeling great just run down post exams. Got a big sleep last night though so a few more of those and I'll be back to normal :)
Anyways kept the reps as light as I could and tbh felt cruisey and good so a positive there. Travels start this afternoon.

CD.

8.03 km (18.8 kph) +72m.

Easy with Niamh. Was gonna do core but feeling rather tired and run down so left it!

Exams doooooone, yalziiiii!!!! Time for summer!