Training Log Archive: ndobbsIn the 7 days ending May 8, 2004:
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Saturday May 8, 2004 #
orienteering 40:12 [5] 5.5 km (7:19 / km)
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.
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.
Thursday May 6, 2004 #
forest run 1:07:00 [3]
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..
... 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..
Wednesday May 5, 2004 #
running 48:20 [3]
three laps montsouris with andrew followed by 18 minutes in the cite
Monday May 3, 2004 #
orienteering 45:00 [5]
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!!
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!!
Sunday May 2, 2004 #
orienteering 1:42:33 [5] 13.5 km (7:36 / km)
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!
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!