Training Log Archive: bradc

Jogged to the start of the SOSL at Devilla, nursing a sore R ankle.

So a return to yesterday's form - sadly yesterday morning, not afternoon. Set off really without a clue or any thought of orienteering; to be fair I'd had an awful night, had woken up with a splitting headache, and had gone back to bed for half an hour at 10am, but, really, I should have at least recognised the futility in setting out before leaving the house and wasting everyone's time.
Ok to #1, duffed #2, off at #3, ok to #4, then completely messed up #5, eventually finding myself at #7 having just missed #5 by <100m, then heading off to #9, from where I relocated and set off 180 degrees in the wrong direction... that was 18 minutes binned, and I'd still got ca. 5 mins to run back to #5 (if I could find it). Tweaked the ankle at that point, too, so I jacked. If I hadn't there was a fair chance that Beccy could have gone into labour, driven to the hospital, given birth and returned home before I would have finished. It still took almost 30 mins to jog back.
Good job I'm hanging up my O shoes for a few weeks.

C • GPS track 2

PWT Open qualifier, race 1, Scone. Turned up tired, expecting a park run, and suddenly found myself having to do a proper, hard, orienteering course - at high speed! Unprepared both mentally and physically, I failed utterly to step up to the challenge, and never even started to 'switch on' - two horrendous mistakes and missing 80% of the controls by a noticeable margin, this was as badly as I have orienteered in a very long time. I even wasted 25s running past the finish towards the download tent...

PWT race 2, in Perth City Centre. This was a bit more like it. No trees! And somewhat more awake... thoroughly enjoyed it. A little sluggish, but not too bad, and only a couple of questionable route choices; a couple of unneccessary hesitations later on, too, when I got tired. Altogether a better performance and an enjoyable race.

Event: Park World Tour
 

Wee jog before orienteering to see if my ankle was up to the challenge...

WEE at Kinneil, long, about 4.9km. Struggling tonight - feeling drained (dodgy tum today) and R ankle still sore, tried pretty hard to start but faded badly and felt like I was running through treacle. Also managed to mark down two controls in the wrong place at the second master map, and threw away 90s or so - d'oh! Always nice to run in the forest at Kinneil, though, lovely open forest and very little grot on the course (thanks, Jen!).

Wee loop to collect in a few controls as a warm down.

Neck still pretty sore, but it's time to chance a run. Felt slow.