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Sunday Jun 8, 2008 #
Orienteering race 1:24:19 [5] **** 10.4 km (8:06 / km)
shoes: VJ Falcon
Roasting hot day for the WOC long test and National event at Brown Clee, glad (mostly) that I had a last minute change of plan and entered M40L not M21E!
Pretty rough tough course with the fiddly vague section on top of the hill at the start and a lot of slogging through heather and tussocks later on.
Felt pretty average running up to the start, forgot the water I meant to take with me which didn't help. Got called up and realised I had forgotten description holder too. Maybe this was a sign I was not thinking too clearly - if so I was not thinking clearly enough to realise it!
Was on line for tricky vague #1 but not confident enough where I was, saw another flag and mis-identified feature, headed off to the right. Sorted it out and only lost a couple of minutes which turns out to be small relative to a lot of others including the elite women (same #1)!
Hesitant to #2 and stopped short initially, carried on pretty hesitant and nothing seemed to look how I expected, always finding myself 30m or so from the flag and losing little bits of time. Had seen Richard Barrett at #1 (though he had caught me, turns out I caught him there) and he reappeared at #7 so there was a bit of toing and froing - when we headed off on the long leg I was just in front so that kept me running through the heather. Pretty much summed things up when I hesitated near the control and he overtook me, he missed it and I found it first, then I went offline on the approach to the next one and he overtook me again.
Thought I would get away from Richard when he went low on the next long leg with a climb up to the control, I climbed initially and then had good path/bank running all the way round the contour to the control, but again I was very hesitant and he got there just behind. He gradually pulled away after that and I took a poor route at the end of the leg at #17 so lost sight of him. Would still have beaten him but got caught in cack on chosen route to #19 and lost a little time, then tried to cross semi-open re-entrant leaving #19 instead of dropping slightly to road and then climbing again - tried twice but couldn't get through all the unmapped gorse in the re-entrant so back tracked and went down to road, lost nearly 2 mins, not happy.
Tough old race, felt like I was struggling but knew others would be too so kept going - plus was supposed to be having a race with Lard (M35L on same course) so kept trying even though I felt like I was dropping time all over the place. Got back and Lard had done the dirty on me by jacking it in!
Pretty done in (and sunburned!) afterwards - running a tough race in the heat must be good practice for WMOC in Portugal though.
Back in time to relax in the field for a while and watch the elite courses finish, then off for WOC/WUOC selection meeting. Finished meeting art 9.30pm (long meeting!) and home just before 3am (long day!).
Pretty rough tough course with the fiddly vague section on top of the hill at the start and a lot of slogging through heather and tussocks later on.
Felt pretty average running up to the start, forgot the water I meant to take with me which didn't help. Got called up and realised I had forgotten description holder too. Maybe this was a sign I was not thinking too clearly - if so I was not thinking clearly enough to realise it!
Was on line for tricky vague #1 but not confident enough where I was, saw another flag and mis-identified feature, headed off to the right. Sorted it out and only lost a couple of minutes which turns out to be small relative to a lot of others including the elite women (same #1)!
Hesitant to #2 and stopped short initially, carried on pretty hesitant and nothing seemed to look how I expected, always finding myself 30m or so from the flag and losing little bits of time. Had seen Richard Barrett at #1 (though he had caught me, turns out I caught him there) and he reappeared at #7 so there was a bit of toing and froing - when we headed off on the long leg I was just in front so that kept me running through the heather. Pretty much summed things up when I hesitated near the control and he overtook me, he missed it and I found it first, then I went offline on the approach to the next one and he overtook me again.
Thought I would get away from Richard when he went low on the next long leg with a climb up to the control, I climbed initially and then had good path/bank running all the way round the contour to the control, but again I was very hesitant and he got there just behind. He gradually pulled away after that and I took a poor route at the end of the leg at #17 so lost sight of him. Would still have beaten him but got caught in cack on chosen route to #19 and lost a little time, then tried to cross semi-open re-entrant leaving #19 instead of dropping slightly to road and then climbing again - tried twice but couldn't get through all the unmapped gorse in the re-entrant so back tracked and went down to road, lost nearly 2 mins, not happy.
Tough old race, felt like I was struggling but knew others would be too so kept going - plus was supposed to be having a race with Lard (M35L on same course) so kept trying even though I felt like I was dropping time all over the place. Got back and Lard had done the dirty on me by jacking it in!
Pretty done in (and sunburned!) afterwards - running a tough race in the heat must be good practice for WMOC in Portugal though.
Back in time to relax in the field for a while and watch the elite courses finish, then off for WOC/WUOC selection meeting. Finished meeting art 9.30pm (long meeting!) and home just before 3am (long day!).
Running warm up/down 20:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Running to the start. Could tell at this stage it was going to be a tough day out there.....
Saturday Jun 7, 2008 #
Orienteering race 18:28 [5] **** 2.9 km (6:22 / km) +50m 5:52 / km
spiked:12/14c shoes: Brooks Adrenaline Jan 2008
Managed to get out for a run off last start at WOC sprint test. Late decision so not very well warmed up, felt pretty heavy legged but speed not too bad.
Brain not quite there though and made two stupid errors
- spotted the blind alley trap to #5 (unlike many) so told myself "don't take the first one", turned right, ignored the correct one and went down the third one instead. Luckily it had a bend so realised quickly, still 30secs lost though.
- lost concentration on way to #7 and turned left once not twice, had to double back to correct road, another 30secs lost.
Also didn't see right hand route to #6, not sure whether that was quicker or not.
On my own for the first part but caught a few people from #8 onwards. Surprisingly sneaked into the UK Cup points but could/should have been top 30. Rosco didn't have the best start to the race and gifted me a victory over him, my two costly mistakes put me 19 secs behind Lard though, dammit.
Brain not quite there though and made two stupid errors
- spotted the blind alley trap to #5 (unlike many) so told myself "don't take the first one", turned right, ignored the correct one and went down the third one instead. Luckily it had a bend so realised quickly, still 30secs lost though.
- lost concentration on way to #7 and turned left once not twice, had to double back to correct road, another 30secs lost.
Also didn't see right hand route to #6, not sure whether that was quicker or not.
On my own for the first part but caught a few people from #8 onwards. Surprisingly sneaked into the UK Cup points but could/should have been top 30. Rosco didn't have the best start to the race and gifted me a victory over him, my two costly mistakes put me 19 secs behind Lard though, dammit.
Running warm up/down 5:00 [2]
shoes: Brooks Adrenaline Jan 2008
Quick run about before starting sprint race.
Orienteering 35:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Control collection after WOC middle test at Weston Heath. Surprised I haven't run here before - looks like a great area and really frustrating that the bracken had grown up so quickly in past two weeks, must be gorgeous in the first months of the year. Fancy coming back to run an event here sometime.
Friday Jun 6, 2008 #
Note
(rest day)
Too busy plus travelling to selection races. Got to bed at 1am with alarm set for just after 6am, ideal preparation for a tiring weekend!
Thursday Jun 5, 2008 #
Note
(rest day)
Too busy
Wednesday Jun 4, 2008 #
Orienteering 39:54 [4] **** 4.4 km (9:04 / km)
15c shoes: VJ Falcon
FVO evening event at Barr Wood. Just about still okay before the bracken takes it over for a few months....
Still feeling my glands and tired but felt okay running, could have run harder but still not quite feeling as I should be, getting there though - I hope.
It was my brain that was the big problem today anyway, just kept running vaguely straight and treated it as a running course with no real need to navigate even though I know it is tricky.
#1 - stopped short
#2 - couldn't find it, not helped by stray line on my map from marking it up, plus it was too low on the slope anyway.
leaving #3 - ran to fence slap bang between the two crossing points
#4 - missed it way left and overshot
#5 - marked it in the wrong place
#6 - drifted well left again
#7 - ran out of 6 with no plan, wrong way round large patch of green which took me much too far right
route to #8 - didn't have a plan and so bashed through on first part of leg instead of easy line feature
After #8 (but not until then, slow learner!) I gave myself a bit of a talking to about making the evening vaguely useful, and did the rest okay. Motivation to run the rest was helped by catching Dixie at #10 and taking a different route which got me ahead on the long leg to #11, getting ahead was a good reason to keep going at a decent pace.
Doug Tullie ran round in 31 mins, also good to see Scotia there and running most of the course, sounds like he will be okay to run the selection races, good news.
Still feeling my glands and tired but felt okay running, could have run harder but still not quite feeling as I should be, getting there though - I hope.
It was my brain that was the big problem today anyway, just kept running vaguely straight and treated it as a running course with no real need to navigate even though I know it is tricky.
#1 - stopped short
#2 - couldn't find it, not helped by stray line on my map from marking it up, plus it was too low on the slope anyway.
leaving #3 - ran to fence slap bang between the two crossing points
#4 - missed it way left and overshot
#5 - marked it in the wrong place
#6 - drifted well left again
#7 - ran out of 6 with no plan, wrong way round large patch of green which took me much too far right
route to #8 - didn't have a plan and so bashed through on first part of leg instead of easy line feature
After #8 (but not until then, slow learner!) I gave myself a bit of a talking to about making the evening vaguely useful, and did the rest okay. Motivation to run the rest was helped by catching Dixie at #10 and taking a different route which got me ahead on the long leg to #11, getting ahead was a good reason to keep going at a decent pace.
Doug Tullie ran round in 31 mins, also good to see Scotia there and running most of the course, sounds like he will be okay to run the selection races, good news.
Running warm up/down 5:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Little bit of jogging beforehand, went just far enough to see that there was some pretty tall bracken awaiting on the course....
Tuesday Jun 3, 2008 #
Running 1:18:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks Adrenaline Jan 2008
FVO run from Roger's in Braco.
Some gorgeous bits of forest to run through.
Saw two ospreys.
Included visit to a Roman fort.
Felt a bit better.
Nice soup afterwards.
Good banter.
Fun evening.
Some gorgeous bits of forest to run through.
Saw two ospreys.
Included visit to a Roman fort.
Felt a bit better.
Nice soup afterwards.
Good banter.
Fun evening.
Monday Jun 2, 2008 #
Turbo Trainer 15:00 [2]
Finally got my brand new Xmas turbo trainer out of the box and assembled it.
Finally fixed the puncture on my road bike.
Gave it a try.
Puncture seems okay. Bike seemed stable on the trainer. Just need to get my legs working again now!
Finally fixed the puncture on my road bike.
Gave it a try.
Puncture seems okay. Bike seemed stable on the trainer. Just need to get my legs working again now!
Stretching 10:00 [1]
Right hamstring really tight and painful after the weekend, driving normally has a bad effect on it but much worse this time. Doubtless not helped by my back, have been rubbish at doing the strengthening exercises.
Booked in with skyhigh for some treatment so thought I had better do at least some stretching of hamstring and back since my last visit!
Booked in with skyhigh for some treatment so thought I had better do at least some stretching of hamstring and back since my last visit!