Training Log Archive: Jon XIn the 31 days ending Jan 31, 2014:
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Friday Jan 31, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Thursday Jan 30, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Wednesday Jan 29, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
When it swelled up post-SA the pain was on the top and worst at the joints around the two little toes. Now it is same toes but underneath, metatarsals and just below. No swelling this time though.
Will give it this week of rest as a chance to settle, if not then off for treatment.
Tuesday Jan 28, 2014 #
Note
Monday Jan 27, 2014 #
Circuits 40:00 [3]
(injured)
Foot protesting strongly at the racing etc of the past few days.
Quite a few alternative exercises to protect it (none with any impact) in the hope it will settle down....
Sunday Jan 26, 2014 #
Orienteering race 57:39 [4] 7.52 km (7:40 / km) +270m 6:30 / km
ahr:134 max:148 shoes: Inov8 x-talon
A while since I ran a course in helly, jacket, hat and gloves!
Feeling deservedly jaded but slogged round and felt better for it. Glad to get a run done and the sun even came out at the end :)
Martin (presumably similarly jaded..) won in 55:52.
Saturday Jan 25, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 10:00 [3] 0.5 km (20:00 / km)
shoes: Saucony Kinvara 2013
Orienteering race 45:47 [5] 8.94 km (5:07 / km) +83m 4:54 / km
ahr:150 max:162 shoes: Saucony Kinvara 2013
M40+, 4th place.
Tried hard and didn't do too much wrong, feeling a bit lacking in speed on the sections where there was a chance to open up a bit.
Jase won in 44:08, not sure I could have run that. Martin second and Rog ('fresh' from the Devil's Burdens) was third.
Thursday Jan 23, 2014 #
Running intervals 52:18 7.47 km (7:00 / km)
ahr:124 max:155 shoes: Inov8 Mudroc 2012
Toiling after yesterday and lagging the others badly
4:55
5:06
5:04
Much work to do....
Wednesday Jan 22, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 3.0 km (6:40 / km) +50m 6:09 / km
shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Orienteering race 1:01:52 [5] 6.85 km (9:02 / km) +240m 7:41 / km
ahr:145 max:161 shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Going okay despite setting off to do the short loop not the long loop from the common control at #2. Which was a shame as otherwise there was a nice path route to #3. Although as I got to #3 at the front, I don't think anyone else took it either!
Gradually dropped by Will and Rog who had the same gaffle, got caught in grot leaving #7 so they were out of sight - but then we all met up in the circle at #9 - for minutes and minutes of thrashing around in the green, maybe five of them....
When the gaffling came together at #11, Claire and Rosco appeared to join the party too. At this stage no-one knew that Ben had found all the controls just fine and was minutes ahead - in fact no-one knew that until the finish!
Dropped badly on the steep climb up to #13 and ran the next section alone. Caught by Daniel two from the end after I messed the leg up in the path network, then Claire appeared again at the penultimate.
Ben 53, Will and Rog 56, Ross 59, Daniel/me/Claire 61.
Sunday Jan 19, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Orienteering race 20:05 [5] 3.9 km (5:09 / km) +50m 4:50 / km
ahr:143 max:154 shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Orienteering race 45:21 [5] 8.79 km (5:10 / km) +100m 4:53 / km
ahr:141 max:152 shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Saturday Jan 18, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Friday Jan 17, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Thursday Jan 16, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014 #
Note
(injured)
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014 #
Orienteering 59:40 [4] 10.2 km (5:51 / km)
ahr:140 max:156 shoes: Brooks Ghost5 Aug 2012
One hour score.
Managed to get lost in loading bays etc UNDER MY OWN OFFICE!!!
Also forgot one answer, answered the wrong question at another, and looked in wrong place for a third....which moved me nicely down from the top ten to 25th place.
Still, fun and nice to catch up with Phil and others in the pub afterwards.
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 #
Running 30:15 [3] 6.01 km (5:02 / km)
ahr:132 max:145 shoes: Brooks Ghost5 Aug 2012
Quick trot in Dullstrom before dark, just out and back from our "Scottish" hotel.
Saturday Jan 4, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Brooks Ghost5 Aug 2012
Orienteering race 21:24 [5] 3.43 km (6:14 / km) +110m 5:23 / km
ahr:143 max:153 shoes: Brooks Ghost5 Aug 2012
M21E 2.8km
25th of 31
So missed getting top 20 every day but aim of overall top half achieved, 15th overall of 35. Sneaked ahead of Martin by 0.9 of a point overall (out of max 4000, after nearly 8 hours of racing).
Another very different area but really good again. Not a good run for me today though. Always going to be struggling for pace today so needed to keep it clean, dropped 20s at #6 but then a right mess of the second half, 50s at #13, 10s at #15 and a disastrous 45s at the penultimate, #20. Probably 5-10s dithering my way to the last too.
Winner was world champ Marten Bostrom in 15:11, Dave did 18:52, Martin 19:20. Lucky Martin wasn't 2s quicker or me 2s slower!
Friday Jan 3, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Orienteering race 2:35:30 [4] 17.69 km (8:47 / km) +383m 7:56 / km
ahr:134 max:147 shoes: Inov8 x-talon
M21E 13.0km
16th of 30
Pretty awful run today, moving okay through the first bit (7th after 8 controls) then a huge miss/thrash at #9 where I lost 7mins. Not alone as Martin lost 10min here too.
Then more thrashing at 12 and 15, and into the wrong block at 17, another 10-11 mins between these three.
Some other scrappiness in the circle too and struggled physically with the steep rough rocky slope for controls 24-29.
Moving at similar speed to Dave but obviously he didn't drop 20mins out there! Well down on the 135mins Dave ran and the 145 Martin ran, except then it turned out Martin had missed #4 out.
Winner Olli-Markus Taivainen in 94, Nick third with 113.
So not many points today, hope to score more tomorrow on the sprint day and drop today.
Down to 11th overall (by 0.1 of a point!) but the people who still need a fourth scoring day are queuing up behind me!
Thursday Jan 2, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 x-talon
Orienteering race 1:02:21 [4] 6.93 km (9:00 / km) +134m 8:12 / km
max:148 shoes: Inov8 x-talon
M21E 6.4km, WRE Middle
17th of 33
South Africa's highest o map today, went above 2000m on the course. Cool area with lots of rocks in open and in runnable pine forest. Little yellow butterflies everywhere in parts of the forest, amazing.
Pretty scrappy run with lots of little errors, dropped far too much time. Can't even blame the magnetic rocks which were causing compass chaos for people as I coped okay with that, just sloppy on final approach to controls.
Finnish team all did 44-47 mins, Nick did 48, Dave 54, Martin 65.
10th overall after three days as so many people have only two scores, it is all downhill from here...
Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 x-talon