Training Log Archive: MikeS

Event: ShUOC Sheffield City Chase
 

Event: SPOOK WEEKEND!
 

Orienteering! City Chase Prologue. Picked up the map and had no idea what I was doing. Had to stop and walk on the way to number 1 to work out what to do. No smoothness around the first 6 controls, but planned ahead on the way to 7 and flowed much better for the last section. Apart from 17 when I got caught out and went down the wrong dead end, lost maybe 20 seconds. Finished somewhere around 7th.

City Chase Chase. Started badly, took a bad route to 3 and then couldn't find 5. Got passed by Rich Robinson and caught by a pack with Phil, Ed Catmur and a ShUOC runner (Dave Abrams?). We all ran together for the next section, through all the ups and downs round the Odeon (which was cool) before I tried a different route into the Digital Campus and lost time. Caught up a little on the long leg to 24, and sneaked ahead of Ed and Dave into 29. Probably lost a couple of places. Complete inability to read the map and run at the same time.

Home to hubs, hubs to start of prologue, finish of prologue to hubs, hubs to home, home to start of chase, and hubs to home again. A bit more running around than I ideally wanted.