Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running tempo 34:43 [4] 6.22 km (5:35 / km) +50m 5:22 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Running hills 16:10 [4] 2.4 km (6:44 / km) +150m 5:08 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Running warm up/down 17:00 [2] 2.8 km (6:04 / km)
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running 1:12:49 [3] 9.36 km (7:47 / km) +295m 6:43 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Back, core and achilles 30:00 [1]

Real Orienteering (Norfolk Hero) 45:45 [3] *** 5.63 km (8:08 / km) +90m 7:31 / km
spiked:10/13c shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

A low level local event. Ran the course with Julie, pushing her to run faster and spend less time standing still reading the map. She says she appreciated this but she may be being polite. Only one significant error, and a little waiting at controls.

Notable event as it was the first course setting by a young local still at school - Michael Loughnan. With some guidance from Colin he did a good job. Its an interesting counterpoint to the agenda item for the next bush committee.. how to blood new course setters... using SS events. Seems a risky prospect to me. Better to run more lower expectation events such as this one.

Running 20:55 [1] 2.7 km (7:45 / km) +55m 7:02 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Rock climbing 1:00:00 [2]

Rock climbing 1:00:00 [3]

Real Orienteering race 1:05:00 [3] *** 6.5 km (10:00 / km) +290m 8:11 / km
spiked:8/11c shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

By day three it was clear I wasnt likely to make up ground. 'Despite other trying hard to help me, I came 14th today, just for variety, ending up 13th overall. Not fit enough, not trim enough. Warnings for M60.
This map was the toughest of the three day. Started 2 minutes after Geoff Peel. Met at the end of the first leg (it was long). Had a fun match race for the next 6 controls. Again took the wrong route choice, then messed up 4. Pulled away on the long climb out of the rock towards 8. I think I also made the wrong route choice on 9. Then finally muffed the second last control in view of the finish. Such is life.
Lessons-
Not fast enough on the flat and downhill.
Didn;t understand the route choices on unfamiliar terrain.

Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.1 km (9:05 / km) +40m 7:42 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Running warm up/down 12:00 [3] 2.0 km (6:00 / km) +60m 5:13 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Real Orienteering race (Prossers Reef) 56:53 [4] *** 6.43 km (8:51 / km) +160m 7:52 / km
spiked:14/14c shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Easter Day 2 Prossers Reef
Spiked each control today, but made a meal of the route choices. I started assuming the undergrowth would be like the previous day but quickly realised it was a fair bit slower. So I took the wide route for leg six. The locals all knew that the terrain in the flatter areas was faster than the lead up to the leg. I lost a couple of minutes there. I believe I also slowed in the latter part of the race or rather didn;t speed up as much as the competition. 13th again.

Real Orienteering race (Carwells Labrynth) 59:59 [4] *** 5.97 km (10:03 / km) +210m 8:33 / km
spiked:18/19c shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Easter Day 1. Carwell's Labrynth
Not really technical terrain, but at times fast running of the ground was level. Slow in the ups and downs. I was somewhere at about 6th until after the 6th control. From that point it appears I didn't speed up compared with the competition. And then I lost 4 minutes on 11, a pretty easy control. Just shows what happens when the brain is oxygen starved. Finished 13th.

Back, core and achilles 20:00 [1]

Running 21:32 [3] 3.74 km (5:45 / km) +20m 5:36 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running tempo 23:05 [4] 4.26 km (5:25 / km) +35m 5:12 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running hills 9:30 [4]
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Running warm up/down 16:00 [2]

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Real Orienteering race (Clinkers Hill) 1:15:06 [3] 9.84 km (7:38 / km) +270m 6:43 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Golden Sandshoe at Clinkers Hill. A 1 hour score but I decided to get all controls and be late, thus ensuring that no handicap system could land me a win and organisation of this event next year.

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Running tempo 36:42 [4] 6.77 km (5:25 / km) +45m 5:15 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

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Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.4 km (6:15 / km) +5m 6:11 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Running tempo 20:20 [4] 4.1 km (4:58 / km) +5m 4:56 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running 31:31 [3] 5.6 km (5:38 / km) +10m 5:35 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [2]

Real Orienteering race (Glenluce South) 1:43:00 [3] *** 11.62 km (8:52 / km) +350m 7:42 / km
spiked:9/11c shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Course 2 9.4k as crow flies.
When one picks up an A3 map and sees that you are in one corner and the first control is in the diagonally opposite corner, you know you will remember the course for a long time. The leg was 3.4k straight line, but straight line wasn't an option. My route was a little over 4 kilometres, and that was mistake free. But wait, there is more... two more long legs. A very challenging and memorable event. This is the way to set courses on maps like Glenluce. Glad we took a punt and both entered course 2.

Back, core and achilles 20:00 [1]

Running 12:33 [2] 2.1 km (5:59 / km) +20m 5:42 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Real Orienteering race (Smiths Reef) 40:19 [5] *** 5.64 km (7:09 / km) +160m 6:16 / km
spiked:5/6c shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

Smiths Reef. 4.9 straight line. Reasonably routine spur-gully performance. Maybe lost 10 seconds on navigation. The McGuckian challenge criterion fulfilled.

Running 35:20 [3] 6.2 km (5:42 / km) +10m 5:39 / km
shoes: Innov-8

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running 36:10 [3] 6.29 km (5:45 / km) +50m 5:32 / km
shoes: Asics Fuji Trabuco 2 (?)

MTB (Not O) 23:00 [2]

MTB (Not O) 20:00 [3]