Training Log Archive: Craney

Dropped from 3rd to 4th on last leg. Shoe choice cost me dearly as I stuggled to stand up, and finishing in a blizzard was unpleasant to say the least (with map covered in mud). But I'd love to know where Scott got past me cos I never saw him. Hit the first few well and settled into running across the fields. Looked behind and saw no-one, so took it steady in the next bit of forest. Small error on number 9, but happy that I was in 3rd so cruised home across the fields. Lost a bit of time crossing the 2metre high deer fence (cos the gate was padlocked), although I should've just gone round the end of it! Lacked a bit of fight, but I wish I'd known I was in a fight. Weird to find out I'd lost a place.

I've worked out where Scott got me. We had the same 6 and the same 9, but he was 2 minutes quicker than me between them on a shorter gaffle. Rest of the course was basically the same. Shit hey.

C • Fair crack of the Gaffle! 1

8th place, 4th Brit. Good but not great. Dunno where the planner thought he might catch out the elites with that course. Leaving my o-shoes at home over the JK cost me more time than not having a compass! (cos of the mud). Ran quite strongly the whole way, except Oli got me on the uphill finish bit grrrr. Good effort. 2 mistakes on number 8 (leaving 7 and in the circle) and couldn't find the pit at number 11 (again, was in the right place) - so lost about 2.5mins. 89 was the time to do as I was at the back of the pack, with a huge gap behind me.

C • 1

12th place, 7th? Brit. Bit of a poor showing really. Still, I nailed most of the course well so happy with those bits, just annoying when mistakes of 1-1.5mins at 6 and 16 make it all a bit pointless. Both times I was in the right place to begin with (i.e. within 10metres of the flag), but lost confidence and ran off (which makes it even more frustrating). My navigation was fine without a compass, and I should have been more confident in it. Running well though. Nicely tucked in behind a Sheffield posse.

Event: JK 2008
 

7th place, 3rd Brit. Ran pretty good and got a pretty good result, but never quite on top of things and made lots of 5-10 seconders. Lost some time cos of slightly unnecessary hiding of controls (eg. wall end which isn't actually on the end but tucked behind the wall, or path crossing which isn't in the middle of the path crossing but tucked behind a thicket which you can't see from your approach). Still, I did some really good legs and kept the time losses to a minimum.

Nice little loosener with Gracie in rather inclement conditions.

C • Good to see... 3

Good job I didn't make any silly bets with Baker at the start of the year.