Training Log Archive: Becks

Warm up for Middle race at Carse. Nice long distance to start meant my very stiff legs thanks to yesterday's lack of warm down felt pretty good by the start, stomach a little unsettled but not too bad, and got a good look at the model map.

Again, a step up from the long race navigationally, with still a few "errors" but more technique based time loss as opposed to loss of place errors. Again I was disappointed with my result. I think I lost time on:

3 - aimed off on the uncrossable marshes and tried to run along them but got caught in deep marsh, had to go back out and round
6 - pulled slightly too far to the left, few seconds hesitation
9 - went out to the road but attack point was nowhere near as clear as I expected so drifted in - was just about to abandon the area and go out to a different attack point when I spotted the control
11 - wasn't sure where hit the ridge so went to the top when I didn't need to
14 - stopped slightly short
20 - getting tired, again attack point wasn't clear from the path and went slightly too far to the west.

The good thing was that today felt like much more of a together race, and physically was pretty spot on. The "errors" are things I wouldn't have picked up on at say Jukola, as they were masked by the bigger ones. Still, I failed to achieve my aim this weekend and I think I need to do some work on the psycological side of preparation for races like this.

Warm down jog.