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Saturday Aug 20, 2005 #
trail run warm up/down 10:00 [1]
Warming up and down arounf the Classic Champs
orienteering race 2:04:30 [5] **** 15.0 km (8:18 / km)
Championnats de France
Longue Distance
Not sure of the exact distance/climb.
Running well (with a bandaged head - I was careful going through veget) physically, made probably ten minutes of mistakes, partly due to having trouble with the 1:15 scale (legibility more so than distance judgment).
Nico Girsch won in 1:39, I'd have been happy with uder 2hrs but should really have run 1:50-1:55
next year :) not that i'll be running french champs...
Longue Distance
Not sure of the exact distance/climb.
Running well (with a bandaged head - I was careful going through veget) physically, made probably ten minutes of mistakes, partly due to having trouble with the 1:15 scale (legibility more so than distance judgment).
Nico Girsch won in 1:39, I'd have been happy with uder 2hrs but should really have run 1:50-1:55
next year :) not that i'll be running french champs...
Friday Aug 19, 2005 #
orienteering race 3 [5]
Championnats de France,
Finale Moyenne Distance
Reasonably well-rested after the morning's qualification race, motivated to place well in the final, perhaps a top ten.
Try to start fast, grab my map, turning it over to find the start triangle and accelerating then BOOM
Race Over...
Almost cried at not being able to run the race... four staples probably hurt more than anything else!
Shame I don't have a picture of the tree, it was bigger than me.
PS Sorry, picture didn't shrink like it should...
Finale Moyenne Distance
Reasonably well-rested after the morning's qualification race, motivated to place well in the final, perhaps a top ten.
Try to start fast, grab my map, turning it over to find the start triangle and accelerating then BOOM
Race Over...
Almost cried at not being able to run the race... four staples probably hurt more than anything else!
Shame I don't have a picture of the tree, it was bigger than me.
PS Sorry, picture didn't shrink like it should...
trail run warm up/down 20:00 [1]
warmup and down around the Qualie and then up the hill to the middle final
orienteering race 44:50 [5]
MIddle Distance Qualie, French Champs
Les Loges de Lapra
Started with Matthias Mahr, Sergei S, Charly B - a nice group if there is one :)
We seemed to have every second control in common which made for good racing. Wasn't worried at all about not qualifying until I messed up controls 5 and 6 a bit and decided to up the pace a little, got the next few fine and knew I was safe, then lost 5 minutes on a really short control, it looked easy, fooled many people, me longer than most... sprinted the last two controls because I knew I was cutting it fine. Fastest descent ever until I started falling :)
Made it through with maybe a minute to spare as 7th of 8 in my heat to qualify. Didn't give me a good start time for the afternoon, but otherwise not important.
Les Loges de Lapra
Started with Matthias Mahr, Sergei S, Charly B - a nice group if there is one :)
We seemed to have every second control in common which made for good racing. Wasn't worried at all about not qualifying until I messed up controls 5 and 6 a bit and decided to up the pace a little, got the next few fine and knew I was safe, then lost 5 minutes on a really short control, it looked easy, fooled many people, me longer than most... sprinted the last two controls because I knew I was cutting it fine. Fastest descent ever until I started falling :)
Made it through with maybe a minute to spare as 7th of 8 in my heat to qualify. Didn't give me a good start time for the afternoon, but otherwise not important.
Thursday Aug 18, 2005 #
running warm up/down 20:00 [3]
warming up and running to the start principally, gentle warm down after too
orienteering race 15:15 [5] ***** 2.44 km (6:15 / km) +95m 5:14 / km
Championnat de France de Sprint
Saint-Victor-Sur-Loire
6th place!!! from François Gonon 1st in 1300, TeroG 2nd in 13:27.
Really a good result, and I lost a minute - 30 seconds to the first control (overshot) and then on 12->13 in the forest part I went over instead of around by the coast.
Excellent map, Excellent traçage, Excellent Sprint area. First part was in old town, complete with amphitheatre and passages and staircases and the like, followed by a long leg along the road/ridge to a small patch of tricky forest on a spur with crags and reentrants etc., back along the waterfront to the finish area. There were loads of spectators in the town (by the sound of it anyway, I was _focussed_!!!
Really had everything!!!
And when finishing it's a really good feeling to have the speaker announce that Nails Dobbs a pulverisé le meilleur temps du circuit!!!!!!!! A long time before that will happen again unfortunately... so a memory to cherish :)
Saint-Victor-Sur-Loire
6th place!!! from François Gonon 1st in 1300, TeroG 2nd in 13:27.
Really a good result, and I lost a minute - 30 seconds to the first control (overshot) and then on 12->13 in the forest part I went over instead of around by the coast.
Excellent map, Excellent traçage, Excellent Sprint area. First part was in old town, complete with amphitheatre and passages and staircases and the like, followed by a long leg along the road/ridge to a small patch of tricky forest on a spur with crags and reentrants etc., back along the waterfront to the finish area. There were loads of spectators in the town (by the sound of it anyway, I was _focussed_!!!
Really had everything!!!
And when finishing it's a really good feeling to have the speaker announce that Nails Dobbs a pulverisé le meilleur temps du circuit!!!!!!!! A long time before that will happen again unfortunately... so a memory to cherish :)
Wednesday Aug 17, 2005 #
orienteering race 1:14:30 [4] ****
Interrégionale,
La Croix des Fosses,
Kirian Meyer won in 68, he overtook me too. I got ahead for a few controls but a little orienteering laziness or tiredness or whatever let him get away then.
Made quite a lot of wee mistakes. Not happy with the run, but manage a third place which was way better than expected. I wonder have I got fitter without really noticing??
Nice place, decent map, continental terrain.
La Croix des Fosses,
Kirian Meyer won in 68, he overtook me too. I got ahead for a few controls but a little orienteering laziness or tiredness or whatever let him get away then.
Made quite a lot of wee mistakes. Not happy with the run, but manage a third place which was way better than expected. I wonder have I got fitter without really noticing??
Nice place, decent map, continental terrain.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2005 #
orienteering 2:00:00 [2] ***
Le Col de la République
Train down to StEtienne today, Alain and Cécile picked me up and took me out to one of the French Champs training maps.
Out on the map 2h45 probably, stopped lost with Alain for some of the time. Was shadowing for a while... for the classic training course. Then we alternated a bit for some of the middle training. The last twenty minutes I went off myself and started reading the map a bit better.
needless to say, tired afterwards!!
Train down to StEtienne today, Alain and Cécile picked me up and took me out to one of the French Champs training maps.
Out on the map 2h45 probably, stopped lost with Alain for some of the time. Was shadowing for a while... for the classic training course. Then we alternated a bit for some of the middle training. The last twenty minutes I went off myself and started reading the map a bit better.
needless to say, tired afterwards!!
Monday Aug 15, 2005 #
running intervals 37:00 [4]
fartlek, citéU, Arcinazzo (Italy World Cup) map in hand. Useful session, (re)learning to look at a map at pace. Tired, not much sleep last night... heading dowd to StET tomorrow hopefully for a week of orienteering.
Sunday Aug 14, 2005 #
orienteering 35:00 [2]
Tour Denecourt, "sprint" course from WEHN last february (?)
map really isn't made to be read at 1:5000... just not accurate enough (i'm talking proportions more than detail), and a couple of bits are possibly wrong...
out on the course for 50 minutes - last time I took 27 and winners wer doing 14 or 15 I think. A couple of mistakes and a few bits of map-checking. I did manage to get the first control two and a half minutes faster than last time :)
Not sure it was particularly helpful training.
map really isn't made to be read at 1:5000... just not accurate enough (i'm talking proportions more than detail), and a couple of bits are possibly wrong...
out on the course for 50 minutes - last time I took 27 and winners wer doing 14 or 15 I think. A couple of mistakes and a few bits of map-checking. I did manage to get the first control two and a half minutes faster than last time :)
Not sure it was particularly helpful training.
trail run 1:27:00 [2]
Fontainebleau. Missed my train this morning - I checked the alarm seven times (even noticed that I hadn't changed it back to French time!!) but have no memory of hearing it this morning... so no IR race, and don't know how I'm getting down for the training and races later this week.
Since I was pissed off, I thought a bit of Bleau training would be a good idea :)
Five mins running to start of O-training, 1h22 afterwards with rucksack along a shortened route to Bois le Roi. probably a good idea not to have run the longer one...
Since I was pissed off, I thought a bit of Bleau training would be a good idea :)
Five mins running to start of O-training, 1h22 afterwards with rucksack along a shortened route to Bois le Roi. probably a good idea not to have run the longer one...
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