Training Log Archive: Jon X

In La Brousse and evening sunshine! No luggage yet but luckily managed to squeeze into a long discarded pair of my dad's trainers plus found some of his kit in a chest of drawers (the running vest that did the 1984 London Marathon no less!).

Fair to say that the paths in the woodland to the south-east of the house are not as marked on the 1:25,000 map. Still no excuse for me running round in a circle though!

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Drymen 10km, 15th, winner 37:27.

Low key but good fun race, maybe a third of it on trails and the rest on road. I knew it was undulating but didn't appreciate quite how much, mostly uphill for the whole trail section from soon after 4km through to nearly 8km.

Lost about 10/15 secs at an un-marshalled junction at 8km just before we came back to the road for the final speedy descent to the finish, when the guy in front turned the wrong way without a second's hesitation - luckily the people in the camper van in the car park called us back! Without that I may have held off the two people who passed me in the final km - however in any case it was a bit distressing how easily they passed me on a downhill road section.....

Probably about 1-2 mins longer than for a flat road 10km - seems about right for current level of fitness.

Warm up to/from registration then also jog to start.
Warm down on tracks in the adjacent woodland.
Then off to see the finish of Ochil 2000s race, got there just in time to see Oleg break the record. Good run by Will in about 10th just behind Godders and a bit ahead of Kitch.

Enjoyable test run round the M20 course at St Andrews for JEC next month. Had a few problems early on with the scale and the building works, but got into it okay after #4 and managed to stay ahead of Bradski thanks to him getting confused near the end. Looking forward to the race now!

Decided not to upload my GPS track.....

Followed shortly afterwards by a test run of the course for the urban race the day after JEC. Didn't start until 8.15pm so the last part of the course was pretty much in the dark, having to stop under street lights to get a look at the map!

A couple of non-optimum routes and a couple of errors, plus encountered a couple of gates on my chosen routes that are ones locked after dusk!

Really enjoyed it, pretty awesome and varied orienteering, a treat is definitely in store for people doing the event. Plus I had never really been round St Andrews much before and didn't realise what a great place it is. Including the post-run fish & chips it does!

FVO evening event at Doune Ponds - exciting to have a new area and map!

Mix of woodland and urban - woodland pretty nice to run through even at this time of year. Good course by Brad and Beccy, don't think I could claim to have picked all the right routes (should have gone round the road to #6 not through the marsh for instance!).

Won by Will in 36 something. Plenty of people between his time and mine..

warm up jog. might have done control 1 better with less time jogging and more time checking the map scale...

Clockwise. Dark. Nice bright moon though.

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Not my idea of summer weather, took the day off in protest.

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