Training Log Archive: andyd

Day 6 - Coulmony, 8.7 km. Loved the early part of the course. Great, Scandinavian-feeling terrain. Got a bit mixed up with the contours on 4, but otherwise was orienteering well. Unfortunately 3 big mistakes in the last km and a half, the final and biggest being unbelievably stupid, just a few 100m from the finsh. Oops. Not the best way to end the 6-days, but glad to feel a bit of speed returning on the last day. 17th on the day, but had been heading for top-10.

Warm up jog to start.

Day 5 - Roseisle, 8.4 km. Lovely orienteering. Beatiful, technical forest most of the way. A few wobbles, probably a few mins in all, and a pretty good run. Still quite a bit off the pace though. 22nd.

Day 4 - Loch of Boath, 8.0 km. A better result today. Maybe some fitness coming back? It was definitely an advantage to be running late, but probably cancelled that out by running straight on quite a few legs where I shouldn't have. Rainy day, but actually enjoyed having soggy forest underfoot. Technically pretty easy orienteering. 14th place.

Warm up jog to start.

Day 3 - Culbin, 8.2km. Missed #1 (knoll in thick green) for 2.5 mins, but ran pretty much clean after that. Thought I'd had a better run than it turned out it was (31st on the day). Did find the forest slow going though. Must just be fitness. Won the run-in split though! (Thanks to the Ecko run-in contest. Had Sam on my shoulder at the last control, so had to go for it!!).

Warm up jog to start.

Day 2, Carse of Ardersier, 9.1 km. A better run than yesterday, though a very early start so not many tracks yet. Struggled with some of the vaguer bits, and the map scale, which led to a few of mistakes. Nice, varied terrain, though heavy going underfoot at times.