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Saturday Feb 14, 2015 #
1 PM
Orienteering 1:12:46 **** 9.83 km (7:24 / km) +259m 6:33 / km
ahr:129 max:147 shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
Contour-only interval training on La Marina Norte, straight from the beach after B had finished her training. Felt terrible from the off - too soon after lunch, so on the verge of being sick for about 10-15 mins, and legs also completely knackered. So, just about the perfect pace for trying to get the navigation right on a contour-only map, then - lots of stopping and starting, too, with 10 intervals to get through. Only had to relocate about four times (!), so, OK by my standards! Very slow but lovely forest, again. Looking forward to a rest day tomorrow. TRIMP 94.7.
Friday Feb 13, 2015 #
12 PM
Orienteering 57:32 **** 7.46 km (7:43 / km) +256m 6:35 / km
ahr:133 max:149 shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
A glorious day today - so, one for the beach at Guardamar, with first Beccy and then I disappearing off to run the Guardamar Norte middle course. Really lovely area - lots of open eucalyptus forest with many sandy ridges and only very occasional thicker veg. Vaguer than El Marina, though, but that suited my point-and-shoot orienteering style better than Beccy's. Had my legs not been so tired and knees not been so creaky I might have managed a decent pace, but all I could really muster was a geriatric totter, as evidenced by my HR data!
Finished off with a grand paella and a beer in a beach restaurant. It's a hard life. TRIMP 82.6.
Finished off with a grand paella and a beer in a beach restaurant. It's a hard life. TRIMP 82.6.
Thursday Feb 12, 2015 #
3 PM
Orienteering 55:58 **** 7.23 km (7:44 / km) +28m 7:36 / km
ahr:133 max:151 shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
Late out today, after a morning at the Salt Museum and a walk around the salt flats. You may laugh, but the museum was interesting - mind you, I enjoyed the Halibut Museum on Senja, so I'm not one to judge. Beccy was beside herself at seeing so many rare birds on the flats - flamingos, stilts, avocets, hoopoes... wooo.
Anyway, I got out afterwards for a wee tootle around La Marina again, this time doing a big circle around the area, and actually finding some of the controls I'd missed before (not surprised I missed some that were, like, 2cm of red tape around a tree branch!) Despite deliberately taking things slowly to try to focus on navigation, I was still shockingly rubbish in places, but I enjoyed it nonethless. Some of the bits of forest were absolutely gorgeous to run through. Followed immediately by a stint in the spa. Nice. TRIMP 81.1.
Anyway, I got out afterwards for a wee tootle around La Marina again, this time doing a big circle around the area, and actually finding some of the controls I'd missed before (not surprised I missed some that were, like, 2cm of red tape around a tree branch!) Despite deliberately taking things slowly to try to focus on navigation, I was still shockingly rubbish in places, but I enjoyed it nonethless. Some of the bits of forest were absolutely gorgeous to run through. Followed immediately by a stint in the spa. Nice. TRIMP 81.1.
6 PM
Cycling (Exercise bike) 50:05
ahr:153 max:167
Second spinning class of the week. If I thought I'd got sweaty on Tuesday, when I stepped off the bike today I looked like I'd actually just climbed out of the swimming pool. I'd dripped so much that my fingers had gone wrinkly. I set off harder today but was struggling to put in maximum effort, or simply to keep the effort level up towards the end - not too surprising, since I'd only stopped running 2.5 hours earlier. Good workout nonethless. Must do this more at home. TRIMP 126.1.
Wednesday Feb 11, 2015 #
11 AM
Orienteering 59:23 ***** 7.25 km (8:11 / km) +129m 7:31 / km
ahr:129 max:166 spiked:3/shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
Drove out to Calasparra to do a spot of training at Sierra del Molino, where I had a nightmare day 7 years ago. Nice to know that I haven't improved at all since then - had a nightmare today, too. The map was butchered to make a compass only section, corridor section, contour-only section and then intervals. I managed the compass-only up to the start of the corridor, which I failed to find and ultimately couldn't do at all. Tried to bail to the start of the contour-only section but failed to find that, too, and spent 15 minutes running around in the blanked-out area before I could finally locate myself on the only part of the map that had all detail. Half-heartedly did an interval (failed on that, too) and headed back to the car.
Beccy got lost later too, albeit not quite so abjectly. Not worth the 90 minute drive! TRIMP 76.7.
Beccy got lost later too, albeit not quite so abjectly. Not worth the 90 minute drive! TRIMP 76.7.
Tuesday Feb 10, 2015 #
10 AM
Orienteering 1:05:17 **** 8.36 km (7:49 / km) +262m 6:45 / km
ahr:145 max:188 shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
La Marina, straight from the accommodation. 1:7000 map took a little while to get into, but my real problem today was the site taping. When you put out tapes in an area, it makes sense to remove the tapes from the previous year. And the year before that. And and and...! And also to go around every now and then and check that this year's tapes are all still there! Geez. Well, I found about 70% of the ones I was looking for, lots of other ones, etc. etc. Nice running in the sandy forest anyhoo. TRIMP 131.3
EDIT: Beccy went out later and found all bar two so it really was just me being cr*p, as per!
EDIT: Beccy went out later and found all bar two so it really was just me being cr*p, as per!
6 PM
Cycling (Exercise bike) 53:42
ahr:146 max:169
Evening spinning class. Ages since I've done one of these, and the lady tried hard to say the instructions in both Spanish AND English, but I couldn't hear her over the music so it took a while to get into it. Once I got going I generated a decent puddle. I'll be on the ball for the Thursday class (although there's a Pilates on at the same time, tempting). 50 mins class plus warm down.
The guy in front of me, who was really going for it, turned out to be one of the roving clan of retired Brits who spend 6 months every year touring Spain in their palatial campervans. Every time I've come orienteering in Spain in winter since 2002 I've met the same couple, haven't seen them this year yet but there's still time! The idea is definitely growing on me. Only 20 years to retirement, and counting. TRIMP 108.8
The guy in front of me, who was really going for it, turned out to be one of the roving clan of retired Brits who spend 6 months every year touring Spain in their palatial campervans. Every time I've come orienteering in Spain in winter since 2002 I've met the same couple, haven't seen them this year yet but there's still time! The idea is definitely growing on me. Only 20 years to retirement, and counting. TRIMP 108.8
Monday Feb 9, 2015 #
12 PM
Orienteering 38:51 5.94 km (6:32 / km) +181m 5:41 / km
ahr:147 max:182 shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
A gentle easing into a relaxed week of O training on the Costa Blanca, courtesy of Sun-O's season-long Guardamar training "camp". I tootled around the "Sprint" (not sprinting!) after picking up our map packs. Lovely, sandy coastal forest. Very rusty and missing having proper controls to run at in the circle. Cool but sunny, perfect O conditions - looks good for the week :-). TRIMP 81.7