Training Log Archive: GraceE

Event: British Sprint Championships
 

British Sprint Champs qualification, Warwick University.
Lots of snow around but it was sunny so it was all quite pretty. Clean run and was feeling good physically. Qualified 1st in heat W2. Some EMIT brick holding tips from Laura meant that my punches were better.... actually got most in this time (though still wasting time at controls).

Sprint Final, Warwick University.
Orienteering ok to begin with, and running quite hard. Got to c13 and tried to 'punch' it but couldn't get the 'brick' in properly.. after a few secs I thought that the light surely would have flashed by now.. so ran to c14, then had an uneasy feeling that c13 didn't register me. Thought about going back but in a sprint there's no point. Kept going ok... then made a stupid stupid 35sec mistake running to the last control (ran 90degrees the wrong way). But in the end it didn't matter because I got my first ever DSQ. c13 didn't register me :( Really annoying because with sportIdent there would have been no problem (and I would have had much better control flow this weekend!!).
The positive is that I was feeling heaps better physically, could run much faster than a couple of weeks ago (and back to where I was when I left Aus).

Event: British Elite Middle Distance
 

British Middle Championships, Hopwas Forest.
Thought it would be a fast area so decided to run hard and not worry about nav as much as I normally do. But it turned out to be trickier than I thought. Sped off to the first control, good map contact for half of the leg, then forgot where I was and what I was doing. Lost 20secs before I spotted the flag. Ran really hard to c2, but in the wrong direction so lost another 30secs. Pretty annoyed so ran even harder from there, and got into a good groove. Lost another 35secs at c11 (wrong gully and slow to relocate). Anyway, stoked with 2nd place and a bit lucky that others came unstuck too.
EMIT - I'll complain a little bit about it here and a bit more when I write about the sprint. My first time using the system, and didn't think it was particularly user friendly. Only managed to get the 'brick' into the control punch thing 2/21 times. After 3 or 4 secs at each control it would eventually register me without a proper punch and I would run off.

C • Congratulations! 3

Leg loosener around some streets.

Intervals up (and down) Endcliffe Valley.
1min,1,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,1,1 (1min recovery between each).

Start and end of run, plus recoveries between reps.

A run from the carpark up the top of Rivelin. Did this run way back in 2006 with Matt. Quite nice - half in forest and half across moorland.

Track. Daylight and not raining, impressed.
Did quite a fun session: 300m, 400m, 600m, 800m (was meant to be 1km), 600m, 400m, 300m with 200m jog recovery between each. A bit sore from yesterday but not actaully tired so ran alright, feeling quite strong on the last couple of intervals (and enjoying the fact they were getting shorter!).

A short warm-up, a longer cool-down and a bit of jogging around here and there.

Circuits at the uni gym with a group of orienteers and led by Rach. Don't think I've ever done circuits before; I'm sure it was good for me (waking up some muscles) but I struggled on most exercises and am sore today!! Nice selection of music ;)

5mins with Matt to the gym. Then 15mins after circuits - a loop on some streets starting with a hill. Didn't take this too easy and pushed up the hill.