Training Log Archive: RHF

Rushmore Orienteering Brown - 9th +
One mistake away from being 3rd place! 2.5 mins separating 3rd to 13th place. Great to get out in the woods again. Smelling the wild garlic. Legs post O racing achey now.

Great ride North of Romsey. Subtitled: bruised and a battered ego

Up through Hursley, then up towards Farley Church, Michelmersh, then decided not to head round to Totton as I didn't fancy the hills! So cut back to Romsey. Was going pretty quickly and having some good flow back down Lee Lane. Just was feeling a bit tired on the hills (post yesterdays strength work).

Went over my handlebars at some traffic lights. I am an idiot. Got confident and was going too fast. The cars in front didn't pull away as quickly as I expected. Lots of lessons learnt! The driver stopped and checked I was okay (which was a pleasant surprise from the usual road users). All my fault and maybe need to practice breaking at high speed! Newly replaced rear break and got used to over using the front break recently probably didn't help. Only bruised hands and hip, very lucky.

Chilled jog around the Greenways and Shirley pre strength work

Strength work
8 reps/ 6 reps of 10kg

Abbotswood MapRun + exta with John
SOC MapRun League event 1 around the Abbotswood estate, nature reserve and Woodley. Good to meet up with John and do it at the same time. Lost some time in the nature reserve and waiting for a control to register (when I hadn't run far enough along a path).

Lordswood MapRun + Lordswood trails
Checking the control sites for my MapRun League event. All worked fine, found a couple of map updates to do but they were pretty simple to do. Quite happy with the course and area. Could be pretty good mapped for sprint orienteering, pretty intricate with lots of connecting areas of paths and woodland. Then a couple of km in Lordswood at the end. Found a new path parallel to the golf course and did a big zig zag in the open fine woods.