Training Log Archive: ColmM

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Lap of Belfield with Cillín.

Looked at the map, and decided I'd do the green course, because the brown just wouldn't be worth my time. Don't regret that decision.
Map was a barren, featureless wasteland. 2 hills, with almost nothing to put controls on. At least it was really nice terrain to run in.
Unfortunately, the map was wrong in a few places, our 2 was off by a good bit, but I knew when I didn't see it that dropping height was my only hope, so didn't miss much more than 30secs. 6 the area was right, but the control was far too high up the gully, not noticeable if you nailed the control, but unfortunately I contoured around and ended slightly too low. 8 was just strange. The boulder wasn't there, and there was a big earthwall just below the control, unmapped. I had trouble with that one. 9 also had strange unmarked openy areas in the forest, but I only missed 30-40secs on it.

Between 6 and 8 I missed about 4-4:30mins, which is obviously a lot, considering I made 2 other mistakes. Still, I was running fast, felt strong, and my orienteering was pretty good most of the time.

Junior training in a park in Inistogue. Not a nice map. Really greeny, unpredictable and not accurate. Still this as a 1 man relay course was kind of fun. Pretty solid orienteering except for 9 (2-3mins), but wasn't really running too fast, the undergrowth was restricting.

O- Intervals with cillín and jonny. Jonny won most, I won the last at least.

Absolutely gorgeous Night-O training on Tramore. Collected controls from the Juniors' afternoon session. Beautiful moonlit evening, beautiful map, lovely sand dune terrain with pretty hills! Felt really good too, even though we weren't going fast, felt strong on all the hills, great run!

And the puns were flying! Was with CillinC and lorrieq btw.

4x550m, followed by 4x800m. Rests were between 60-100secs, quite long, and inconsistent. All times and distances and aren't accurate either, they're estimates 'cos I had no watch or gps.
Ran with Cillín, started together for most, but I let him go first for 2.
They went pretty well, hard to really tell how you're doing it with no watch, but I felt pretty good.
Cillín's really fat at the moment, just saying.

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