Training Log Archive: graemeIn the 30 days ending Apr 30, 2016:
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Saturday Apr 30, 2016 #
Orienteering race 1:23:52 [3] 8.9 mi (9:25 / mi)
If you have to choose a BOC to trundle round with a cold, the weird non-Euclidean metric of Brown Clee Hill is a good one. Stuffed up the first three, making no sense of the map (except on 1&2 when I actually did go there, just didn't see the flag and lost confidence). After that, all pretty nominal: tried hard enough to fall over a lot.
When we entered, there was a promise of a lidared map, in the end they just added a load more pits so that nobody could really tell if it was in the right one :(
One truly surreal leg: I spotted a wet pit was in the only bit of white for miles around. I went straight to the lone tree, punched, and went on. Onlater inspection, there is no white on the map... I really was in a different world today.
n.b. "long" champs = no leg > 5mins. Woeful.
Next up - R'lyeh urban.
Friday Apr 29, 2016 #
Note
Thursday Apr 28, 2016 #
Running race 28:06 [3] 4.1 mi (6:51 / mi)
Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016 #
Orienteering 26:41 [4] 4.0 mi (6:40 / mi)
Massive hailstorm on the way home. Even nicer to avoid!
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016 #
Running 36:00 [2] 4.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
Running 24:00 [4] 2.5 mi (9:36 / mi)
Monday Apr 25, 2016 #
Running 52:00 [2] 6.0 mi (8:40 / mi)
Sunday Apr 24, 2016 #
Orienteering race 51:52 [4] 5.3 mi (9:47 / mi)
Lovely sunny day, ran fairly hard and essentially clean. Lots of very easy short legs, and some nice longer route choice challenges. Took all the round on the path routes to avoid steep rocky rubbish, according to winsplits 48th 23rd and 37th on those, so only 22-23 was the right choice. That said, some people were losing serious time on those legs. (james 5327 :)
Saturday Apr 23, 2016 #
Orienteering 4:00:00 [1] 10.0 mi (24:00 / mi)
Friday Apr 22, 2016 #
Orienteering 1:30:00 [2] 3.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
Thursday Apr 21, 2016 #
Cycling 45:00 [3] 10.0 mi (4:30 / mi)
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016 #
Running 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Running 52:00 [2] 6.0 mi (8:40 / mi)
Tuesday Apr 19, 2016 #
Running 1:30:00 [3] 8.0 mi (11:15 / mi)
Monday Apr 18, 2016 #
Running 54:00 [3] 7.0 mi (7:43 / mi)
Sunday Apr 17, 2016 #
Orienteering race 1:16:38 [3] 7.3 mi (10:30 / mi)
Won by Quentin in 6330.
Had zero expectation of what I expected to be a mud fest, but after the first few falls shoulder seemed OK. First section was brutally slippy and muddy, found everything fairly cleanly, but Neil Conway came by from -4 and ran off. Then some long track legs, and suddenly Neil was ahead, then behind, then gone, until the next slippy muddy slope. Got a very good route to 14 (climb, run along the top, descend), then missed 15 slightly to left, and went way further left binning 3+ mins.
On further inspection ... was a really good course, several options I didn't even consider at the time, lots of micro and macro route choice, two long track runs to break things up, both having enough options to catch some people out (used the tunnel both times - this was the correct answer). So, still struggling with balance. "Ran" in the more4's which have amazing studs, and weight to match, and used the wrist compass to avoid smashing the thumb-magnifier and keep hands free for crawling over logs and up slopes. Not elegant, but this was probably the right answer for me today.
Saturday Apr 16, 2016 #
Orienteering 41:20 [3] 5.6 mi (7:23 / mi)
Whitby urban 3/3 dqs so far this year.
Friday Apr 15, 2016 #
Running 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Thursday Apr 14, 2016 #
Running 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Running 50:00 [2] 5.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016 #
Orienteering race 20:00 [3] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
Running 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Tuesday Apr 12, 2016 #
Running intervals 23:00 [3] 1.7 mi (13:32 / mi)
Running 40:00 [2] 4.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Monday Apr 11, 2016 #
Running 55:00 [2] 6.0 mi (9:10 / mi)
Sunday Apr 10, 2016 #
Orienteering race 1:14:10 [4] 8.6 mi (8:37 / mi)
Ran down on short brown. Ran hard, ran clean except one missed turn on the green, nice open area which suits me. Shoulder basically fine.
Finished 10 mins down.
Orienteering 1:30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
Orienteering 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Note
I like Max's planning, which is certainly distinctive. I wonder if planners who've grown up with urban have a different take on things like doglegs and orange-style twisting through rides in the forest. I wasn't alone in making my mistake in the "round the rides" section rather than the "read the contours" bit.
Saturday Apr 9, 2016 #
Orienteering 4:00:00 [1] 7.0 mi (34:17 / mi)
Note
However, the preparation was sufficient that somehow, we got away with it.
Friday Apr 8, 2016 #
Running 45:00 [2] 5.0 mi (9:00 / mi)
Thursday Apr 7, 2016 #
Running 10:00 [3] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Running 1:00:00 [3] 6.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Wednesday Apr 6, 2016 #
Running 50:00 [3] 6.5 mi (7:42 / mi)
Note
Tuesday Apr 5, 2016 #
Running 28:00 [4] 3.1 mi (9:02 / mi)
3:45 46 48 48 47
with Jocelyn, + James whizzing by in ~3:35.
Felt OK. Also felt cold, but everyone assured me it isn't. Too much desert.
Running 50:00 [2] 5.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Monday Apr 4, 2016 #
Running 58:00 [3] 6.0 mi (9:40 / mi)
Note
Sunday Apr 3, 2016 #
Orienteering 3:00:00 [1] 10.0 mi (18:00 / mi)
Friday Apr 1, 2016 #
Running 1:30:00 [2] 7.0 mi (12:51 / mi)