Training Log Archive: KathrynB

---> Deeside for the 6-days

O-Ringen Day 5 (Chase)
Was 7th at the beginning of this (meant I had a new bib) and was really excited. Had one girl about 2 mins ahead, and another ~4mins behind. Meant i knew I was probably going to be racing on my own.
Surprisingly, I was my 2 min girl going out of no.2 as I was going in, so pushed to try catch her properly, but never saw her again. This was annoying as it meant I never got any help for number 4 (long leg into a point feature in a vague hillside...). Thought I was in control coming in to it, and knew where to expect it, but then just wasn't where I thought at all. Really really struggled to relocate so was wondering around a lot before I eventuallt found it. Lost about 17minutes, and all of my motivation. Then went to 6 before 5 (short leg tbf...). Really had little motivation left, so ended up pretty much just jogging around. Lost another 5 minutes at no.9 which annoyed me again. Happy to be finished in the end, but gutted that everything fell apart in the last race, and my last run in my Scandi summer

O-Ringen Day 4 (middle distance)
Pretty gutted with this race tbh. Felt really good; fast and strong. But lost my head twice which definitely cost me the stage win.
Really really good fun anyway. Awesome to be in such a small area of forest with so many people!!

O-Ringen Day 3
A lot more of a grotty area. Made my first mistake of O-Ringen :(((( Very tiny parallel error, but just couldn't relocate at the very end, so lost about 3/4mins (no.1).
Was pretty done with the terrain by the long leg, so jumped onto the track and went all the way round. Probably quite a good routechoice actually

O-Ringen Day 2
Legs feeling a lot better today, but still not 100%. Still clean

O-Ringen Day 1
Felt like this was a pretty easy course, especially compared to what I have been running on recently, therefore was pretty much perfectly clean the entire way round. Unfortunately just had no energy at all, so really struggled physically round this. Enjoyed it anyway, and good to see even with this I wasn't too far off the pace

Event: O-Ringen
 

---> O-Ringen

Down to the start

Sprint course in an area down the bottom of the hill. 5x5 controls with rest after each lot of 5. Couldn't get a couple of the controls due to building work, and quite slow in the few controls in the green wood. Felt I could get some speed when I needed to though. A lot cooler today which helped

All the way back up the hill to the house. Nice short session before O-Ringen