Training Log Archive: AliC

Brown Course at Puttenham Common. Ran without huge mistakes, but with a handful of little ones that added up. Miscounted reentrants on my way to 9, went compeletely the wrong direction out of another control, and twice just made wrong route choices, battling through the braken instead of paths!

My first time ever organizing an orienteering event! As it should be, just a very, very little one, and to be honest, I just used maps from a previous summer series, tracing two of the loops out on paper as totally blank compass bearing-distange judgement exercises.

Put out controls, did one loop on the blank map and got totally confused as I have absolutely no distance judgement. Then worked on remedying that, running other sections of known distance. At that pace, I am around 40 strides to 100m, but that was definitely not the pace I usually orienteer at, so I'd guess a few less at full pace.

OUOC club run- round Iffley lock, I stopped at the track of course.

Two sets of 4 x 500m at 5k pace with 100m roll-on in between 500s, 5 min rest in between sets. 500s took around 1:45 each.

Warm up/warm down/in between intervals.

Evening run around Headington Hill Park and South Parks. Pretty!

5 min abs, 2 min side thingys, 1 min back

Run to the Nature Reserve from Lab. It's too bad I can't make it to the xc sessions on Tuesdays, but seminar at 12:30 was good.

My 4 x 4 min intervals with 2 min rest in between.

Didn't think I was going to do intervals, as my legs are still pretty wrecked from Sunday's race, but didn't actually feel that bad once I got going! Would be so much better to do intervals with people though!

Around Iffley lock. The last bit was actually above Level 1, to get to circuits on time. I went with the really, really slow group of xc newbies. Good for recovering from yesterdays race!

OUOC Circuits! With lots of new people, good fun! Did get dark til the end, but not miserable as it wasn't cold *or* rainy. Must celebrate days like that!