Training Log Archive: Lard

British Middle Distance Champs, Strensall, York.
Psyched up and ready to race (but feeling sore from yesterday and tight ITB). Started well but soon came a cropper on the crap map. Too many point features in the wrong place and hard to understand vegetation layer. Pushing hard all the way but knowing that this kind of sloppy orienteering wasn't going to be a winner for me. Managed 3rd again (just beaten by Steve Watkins and 90 secs to Richard B. Happy with the result given how crap the o felt. Racing hard and feeling good about that side of things.
Knackered now.

British Champs Sprint Qualifer, York Uni
Took things steady, judged the wrong height on the daffodil hill but qualified fine in 2nd place.

British Champs Sprint Final, York Uni.
Starting one minute behind Andy. Get into a frazzle at one in the ornamental garden but the mistake means I know where 2 is - back on track. OK until the stairs at 5 where the description said northern stairwell bottom of - I went there but it was northern stairwell above your head bottom of! Moving OK after it and despite not picking the best lines to one or two I made no gross errors and saw Andy as I approached the spectator. He wasn't much help on the final loop (taking some longer lines) so managed to almost reel him in until he powered the finish.
3rd place 16 secs behind Richard Barrett and 26 secs ehind James Logue. That'll do.

Lots of warming up and down before and after each race.

A jog round Harlow Carr in Harrogate after driving down from Scotland. Just what the doctor ordered.
Plenty of stretching.

FVO's last Night Race at Bantaskine, Falkirk planned by Rog.
What a fabby little area with lots of interesting bits. Rog planned a multi-loop course taking in all the interesting bits and despite the brambles down the hill from no1 it was very nice and much fun. I ran ok and tried. Came 2nd but only because Marcus and Jon's headlamps failed and Fraser tried scaling a cliff. Will won in 32.
Good use of a small area. Great grub at the Beancross after too (3 course for £10!).

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Meant to run today but as we were leaving the door for nursery Matthew's bottom exploded all over the kitchen (thankfully he'd chosen the hard flooring to flood on!). Spent the whole morning at home battling poo.
Then had to catch up with heavy end of year stuff at work (lunch on the go) and got home just in time for tea at 7:30, in no mood to train.

FVO Pilates and Conditioning.
Very tired from the weekend but put in a half decent pilates session and did some of the circuits. Tired man, tired.