Training Log Archive: ndobbs

only 4 laps montsouris today, saving my bones for hill work in orsay tomorrow, orienteering wed, hillwork thurs, something friday (perhaps rest?) orienteering and run saturday...

controls 3 through 9 of Uppsala meet. started the 10th leg. map-reading was better today but still not great.

Parc Montsouris, same as yesterday (three minutes slower). Ran with map from Uppsala race I failed miserably. Visualisation is difficult, hadn't much of an attention span either...

Midday run in Parc Montsouris, 5 slightly extended laps... controls 17-finish of Inch IOC. Rediscovered some of my routes...

Orsay
up the plateau, west, around the wee valley down and back up, back on campus for two more climbs up the plateau.
the steep climb (done twice today) lasts 2mins30 going about as hard as i can and is great. i reckon i'll have it down to 2.15 by christmas. good for intervals perhaps.

4 llaps of the cite. post-rain, evening, a flies were scattered randomly.
friends coming over so hadn't any more time to run.

Orsay, up the plateau 2 and a half times. morning run. nice and fresh. short enough not to suffer in class afterwards.
must do this more often.

7 llaps of the cite - 9:30 each or so...
reading Irish Champs at Inch controls 1 through 16 or 17. did i run off the map on the way to 14? why did i not read the map on the way into 15 (or not).

a couple of places i've forgotten where i went.

after getting up at 6:15 (i have to stop doing this) to be at denfert for athe lift to recloses to put out a few controls for today's relay, and spending the day there (i got home at 5:15 maybe?) i enede up running in montsouris (5 laps, a bit longer (laps) than usual).
How incongruous. Shame, really, but we wanted to get home before the BIG traffic jam so we couldn't run in font.

weather was cool and windy but (and) nice.

been a long time since i've helped out at an event. i really enjoy it.

tired. very tired.

Recloses, after strolling to pu out some controls for tomorrow's compet, made up a course from a master map and ran it. almost five km, probably. three mistakes, stopped to check control placing/descriptions a couple of times too...

flat, nice, brambles and nettles pretty much as on the map.

lovely weather

4 llaps of the cite, a bit earlier in the late evening so had better light for Banna sand dunes map. Noticed yesterday that my control circles weren't centred properly at all.

spent a couple of minutes running around looking for my stolen running singlet before starting into the laps.
still hot

5 llaps cite/banna sand dunes ioc middle

fac d'orsay -> plateau -> st aubin/villiers la bacle -> around and back...

less kamikaze flies than in parc montsouris. pretty sultry for some bits of the run. may have to start doing morning runs...

couple of bits to iron out, and have to work out how to extend it further (which is possible)

felt fine. took a couple of pauses at the far end (not inc in the time), unfortunately without water. apart from that running quite well.

12.35 in montsouris followed by four llaps of the cite. buf

Rocher Greau - Sprint.

blew it at the second control - over two minutes slower than Alain Amoric, who i think had the fastest split - he was certainly faster than the vanniers...

EricV ran just under fifteen, fabrice and valerie just under 16, JMDel 16.21...

running on two hours sleep and lots of beer. Fete de la Cite... biggest party of the year, and i'm friends with head barman. doh.

Rocher Greau - other side of the map. Mddle distance...

FV 24something. VV 30ish. me 32ish - SI boxes stopped working...

ran it after the sprint. completely misread the map going up the hill towards the second control and lost a couple of minutes. a few more mistakes later on. why oh why... pretty disastrous race really...

at least 5 mins of mistakes, i think

Orsay -> plateau -> west past the cnrs and back

discovered a new place to run!!! and it's great! even if the clay is a little hard.
forest or field-side (oil seed rape) trails all the way, and they extend further than i went. so there must easily be a 45 minute one-way run.

training next year looks much better already. happy days.

2 decent climbs.

4llaps cite - felt more like internsity three, but down as two because the time was not fast... gentle run rather than jog, breathing easy... tired and hungry.

knees a bit rickety, not in pain but i can feel the bones most of the time...

4 llaps cite
quite fast, slow enough to do times tables though :)

,49
7,38, 7,34,
7,26, 7,13
1,07

Fontainebleau with Andrew.
made a couple of navigaztional errors (running without a map) so a little longer than it should have been

weather still overcast and wet, as it was for the weekend.

probably ran 25km. oout for 3h15, stopped for water and sultanas severl times. andrew was quite tired after runing all 5 legs in D4 the day before - he stillmanaged to spend 3 hrs in the louvre in the evening asi layin bed :)

Championnat de France des Clubs
Relay, Altkirch, near Mulhouse

6th leg (of 7) for BAlise 77. couple of small mistakes. easier forest but wxith more nettles and brambles. good guys were all in Division 1 so Ihad arelatively good timeon thecourse. out of the 10 or 15 who ran it.
not particularly interesting. great to see so many people taking part

CriteriumNational Moyenne Distance
Mulhouse, or thereabouts

T Gueorgiou - 28:24 showed us what shouldbe done...
MM ran 37 something to finish 15th (doable, but v impressive quand-meme), I was 29th, AQ ran 44.
i think there were over 300 on the HSeL course!!
Made a few medium-large errors, up to 90 seconds I thik. haven't drawn in route or analysedsplits properly yet.

Great "continental" forest - not much contour detail (some,all thesame) and lots of vague veg changes with deciduous saplings, well mapped i think... fast running.

fac d'orsay with andrew, including up to the plateau twice...

... lovely day, nice run. should be running up the hill here three times a day two days a week while in paris... good training. area is a little small, but possible extension of run out towards chevreuse..

three laps montsouris with andrew followed by 18 minutes in the cite

Irish Relays - Maharees Sand Dunes/

First Leg, KEEP LEFT sign on my back!!

first by a good bit to my first control... messed up the second... in the (gaffled) pack to four and five, six most others ran off the map putting me close to the lead... followed James Logue for a bit, his mistakes making up for my lack of running speed.

finnish MTBO world champ led and won with time to spare - hardly saw him at all.

second through the crossing, james overtook me in the wee loop before the map exchange, caught up with him again (error) at the 19th, he ran away again. lost me almost completely in the long run into rain and wind (lots and lots of wind resistance) to the 21st...
... lost well oveer a minute at the 24th - niall bourke overtook me... doh... almost beathim to the last control: outran him to the area but was 15m too high, so he beat me in to the finish by a second or two.

Fergal buckley was the rest of the team , so non-competitive. Have to get a club some time...

really fast and quite easy orienteering. if i get fast and fit ever i'd be really good at it.
Goal for 2006 get fast and fit!!

Irish Champs. Inch Sand Dunes.

Andrew Quin - 96:36, BE - 96:56

Unfortunately a beautiful day - almost two hours in the sand (and maram grass) in blazing sunshine starting not long after midday, without water at the later water stop is not ideal.

beautiful...

three sizeable mistakes according to winsplits. first one i lost contact in the spurs and reentrants, and slowed down a lot. 13th control i don't remember messing up hugely, unless it is the one i overshot??
must check the map.
15th was a bit of a disaster. got to the area fine and it wasn't a hard control, but i lost the plot. got it eventually and bill edwards had overtaken me.

he was going well so i had to push to get the next one not far behind him, and kept pushing so he wouldn't lose me.
then i was ahead of him and had to start navigating!!! he was at least as tired as me so i had to do most of the work... slowed down and tried to minimise the mistakes. half dead.

i was paying too much attention to bill during the second half of the race - i was a little fitter, and possibly navigating better too, but didn't run aggressively - i think i could have dropped him. but i was worried i would make a big mistake if on my own. Why? poss because i have too much respect for bill (had!), and i'm not used to competing with the big boys.

bill was leading to the second last control. thankfully for andrew he was dead and couldn't run. wonderful to see andrew win. i should be at least on the podium next year.

Goal for next year: win Irish Champs!

beach run to wram up, and a little in the marram grass afterwards.

Irish Sprint [sic] Champs - Banna Sand Dunes

5th - Bill Edwards 31:46, AQ 31:47

BOC don't seem to know their race lengths... one mistake at the third of over a minute allowed james logue catch sight of me later on and pass me at the 17th/18th... towed me to the finish, although i got there before him due to a wee mistake at the end. fast bugger.

quite physical and fast - james passed me just after my brain ran out of oxygen/blood/...
not too difficult navigationally (not after sweden anyway).