Warm up for both doing laps of the field. Warm down was a walk with Alex napping on my back.
1 PM
Orienteering10:00 [4] 4.0 km (2:30 / km) +60m2:20 / km slept:8.0
Two ultrasprint qualifiers at Cliffhanger. Good on the first one, but beaten by Michael Adams, sloppy on the second and came 4th! Confused by the lack of a no. 11.
3 PM
Orienteering11:00 [4] 5.0 km (2:12 / km) +80m2:02 / km
Ultrasprint final with the pressure on to beat Rach. Not a good start working out where the hell I was supposed to be going, finally overtook Rach about 1km in. Rich was clearly going to be hard to beat but sabotaged himself by running through some olive green and having to backtrack. I could cruise it in from there. Fun.
That's the technical training done for the 6 days.
Running1:05:00 13.0 km (5:00 / km) +410m4:19 / km slept:8.0
Hillsborough Park with Alex in the buggy in a futile attempt to send him off to sleep. Followed by a solo run up some hills; Walkley, Stannington, Crookes, wanted to keep going but ran out of time.
Running40:00 [2] 7.0 km (5:43 / km) +80m5:24 / km slept:8.5
Nice and steady with Alex in the chariot, for the first time in ages. The legs felt quite good and the lad seemed to enjoy himself. Still intend to take it easy for a few more days to give myself a chance of racing well by Wasdale.