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Saturday Mar 24, 2018 #
Orienteering 28:04 [3] 3.1 km (9:03 / km) +212m 6:45 / km
shoes: Mudclaw 300 b/r
Abbey Craig Middle Blue
Down for the Saturday only of the Scottish Spring. Need the O practice....badly. Lovely day and the forest, a completely new one for me, in great shape.
Not a great start, wasting a heap of time circumventing green that maybe you could run through to no. 1. Took a little while to get used to the 1:4000 scale and it all seemed a bit more like a long forest sprint.
Most of the rest went OK with the exception of 12 where the veg seemed a little strange and ended up too far south (?30s), another 20s at 14 where I couldn't see the boulder when stood beside it, 18 when visiting the control n the rootstock nearby, then overshot 19 (20s).
Lots of fun anyway and happy enough. Generally focussing well, and happy to be within a minute of EM at the end. Good battle with DonP too.
Down for the Saturday only of the Scottish Spring. Need the O practice....badly. Lovely day and the forest, a completely new one for me, in great shape.
Not a great start, wasting a heap of time circumventing green that maybe you could run through to no. 1. Took a little while to get used to the 1:4000 scale and it all seemed a bit more like a long forest sprint.
Most of the rest went OK with the exception of 12 where the veg seemed a little strange and ended up too far south (?30s), another 20s at 14 where I couldn't see the boulder when stood beside it, 18 when visiting the control n the rootstock nearby, then overshot 19 (20s).
Lots of fun anyway and happy enough. Generally focussing well, and happy to be within a minute of EM at the end. Good battle with DonP too.
Orienteering race 13:30 [4] 2.8 km (4:49 / km)
shoes: Roclite 295
Rosyth Sprint.
Don't do these things very often :-). But there's a JK sprint on Friday.
Hmmm, this one was a little bland with very little variation - basically the nature of the housing estate rather than the planning, but no real technical difficulty of note. Really nice to have such a small map that didn't require much folding.
The only time lost pretty much was faffing when punching. This has got me thinking about SI Air. Mixed punching. Discuss.
Certainly if you have any aspirations to do well in any sprint of importance, and where SI Air is available, then you have no choice but to use it. 3 secs saving per control...20 controls...no brainer. Although that said, I'm probably not quick enough in these races anyway! Well cuffed by IM and DP.
Enjoyable as pretty much a one off but wouldn't travel far to do it every week.
Don't do these things very often :-). But there's a JK sprint on Friday.
Hmmm, this one was a little bland with very little variation - basically the nature of the housing estate rather than the planning, but no real technical difficulty of note. Really nice to have such a small map that didn't require much folding.
The only time lost pretty much was faffing when punching. This has got me thinking about SI Air. Mixed punching. Discuss.
Certainly if you have any aspirations to do well in any sprint of importance, and where SI Air is available, then you have no choice but to use it. 3 secs saving per control...20 controls...no brainer. Although that said, I'm probably not quick enough in these races anyway! Well cuffed by IM and DP.
Enjoyable as pretty much a one off but wouldn't travel far to do it every week.
Thursday Mar 22, 2018 #
Orienteering 1:10:00 [3] 8.0 km (8:45 / km) +293m 7:24 / km
shoes: Mudclaw 300 b/r
Map run in Potties. Nice running through some parts before the bracken starts to take over.
Shorts weather.
Shorts weather.
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018 #
Road Bike 2:44:53 [3] 73.98 km (2:14 / km) +590m 2:09 / km
Ballogie; Mill of Cattie;Potarch;Banchory;Potarch;Ballater;coffee;Ballogie
With AT + SS + AC
Wet for the first 25k I guess then dried up a bit. Headwind out to Ballater though. Enjoyable.
With AT + SS + AC
Wet for the first 25k I guess then dried up a bit. Headwind out to Ballater though. Enjoyable.
Note
Vasaloppet entry confirmed
Monday Mar 19, 2018 #
XC Skiing 1:15:00 [3]
At Clashindarroch with T.
Lovely snow, and tracks still in decent shape after what was obviously a busy day there yesterday. Glad we got out early as it will probably be warm and sticky later. Tracks almost empty at 0930...and a decent amount of sun.
Out for 1.45.
Lovely snow, and tracks still in decent shape after what was obviously a busy day there yesterday. Glad we got out early as it will probably be warm and sticky later. Tracks almost empty at 0930...and a decent amount of sun.
Out for 1.45.
Sunday Mar 18, 2018 #
Orienteering race 48:00 [4] 5.77 km (8:19 / km) +306m 6:35 / km
shoes: Mudclaw 300 b/r
Corsedardar Blue
Out early in the snow. Clean to 3 then too high at 4 and lost loads, not seeing the white of the kite or the clearings in the snow, and caught up by EM. Could see him ahead until 8, then caught him again at 11 after the wee control pick. Couldn't even think about keeping up with him to the finish.
Very enjoyable run out in what is now a really nice area.
Out early in the snow. Clean to 3 then too high at 4 and lost loads, not seeing the white of the kite or the clearings in the snow, and caught up by EM. Could see him ahead until 8, then caught him again at 11 after the wee control pick. Couldn't even think about keeping up with him to the finish.
Very enjoyable run out in what is now a really nice area.