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Sunday Jul 31, 2011 #
Event: Scottish 6 Days Oban 2011
9 AM
Running 25:33 3.09 mi (8:16 / mi) +14m 8:09 / mi
ahr:121 max:133 shoes: New Balance 1064 (2)
Just a little explore from our holiday cottage. Down to the beach, along the beach and back through the holiday park. Coughing up a load of gunk this morning. Yesterday's parkrun certainly got things moving.
1 PM
Orienteering 43:50 4.18 mi (10:29 / mi) +222m 9:00 / mi
ahr:146 max:158 shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5)
Scottish 6 Days, Day 1. 2nd place, 3 seconds behind the winner.
I'm running M21S. I have my reasons. One of them is not pot hunting. The Scottish 6 Days M21S commemorative mug is not top of my must have list. I'm happy to have a bit of banter about running short with my friends, but I didn't really appreciate the commentator (who I don't know and therefore doesn't know me) abusing me for running short. And then claiming I mustn't have expected anybody to beat me. So by his logic, should that person not be running a longer course? Surely then the leader of every short class is too good and should be running the next class up?
Anyway, on to the race. Most importantly, I enjoyed myself, and that is the main aim of the week. I did start the race with the 'I'll just run into the circle and I'll see the control' attitude, but after making mistakes on 1, 3, 4 and 5, it clicked that wasn't going to work, and I started to orienteer properly. Unfortunately those mistakes had probably lost me getting on for 3 minutes. The biggest was at 3, where I came out just south of the control, thought I was north of the control and went the wrong way. That lost me 90 seconds.
After 5, I got my head sorted, and ran pretty much cleanly, with a couple of minor hesitations and wobbles. Struggled with my terrain running, and was hurting up the hills!
I'm running M21S. I have my reasons. One of them is not pot hunting. The Scottish 6 Days M21S commemorative mug is not top of my must have list. I'm happy to have a bit of banter about running short with my friends, but I didn't really appreciate the commentator (who I don't know and therefore doesn't know me) abusing me for running short. And then claiming I mustn't have expected anybody to beat me. So by his logic, should that person not be running a longer course? Surely then the leader of every short class is too good and should be running the next class up?
Anyway, on to the race. Most importantly, I enjoyed myself, and that is the main aim of the week. I did start the race with the 'I'll just run into the circle and I'll see the control' attitude, but after making mistakes on 1, 3, 4 and 5, it clicked that wasn't going to work, and I started to orienteer properly. Unfortunately those mistakes had probably lost me getting on for 3 minutes. The biggest was at 3, where I came out just south of the control, thought I was north of the control and went the wrong way. That lost me 90 seconds.
After 5, I got my head sorted, and ran pretty much cleanly, with a couple of minor hesitations and wobbles. Struggled with my terrain running, and was hurting up the hills!