Training Log Archive: roar

Olbas oil on tissues up my nose I went to the car park and back heading to the start to do enough warm up. Felt pretty rough to be honest.

DM Long - H21 - 13.1km

Felt alright once I got into the forest. Had read the PM and it said it would be fast, but I wasn't expecting it to be quite this fast. It was beautiful forest. The open hills were just perfect, the orienteering dream. I was on solid form too with only 2 real misses, even doing well through the green. Tired a bit towards the end but overall happy with the performance.

This event has highlighted a new case for my results script where the start list is not displayed on a single page on eventor. Will have to look into fixing that.

H21 U - Splits

Went for a map walk around Lunsen from Karlsro with Ruth, Don & Regina. Started off nice weather and went mushroom picking with some success. It started to rain later though which was not the most pleasant. Nice morning overall though.

Easy to the start along the golf course. Tired from being up early to fly back to Sweden but not terrible. It was getting kinda misty in the dark which was cool. Some small amount of trepidation before the first night-o since March! Felt decent running actually.

DM Night - H21 - 10.05km

Started sensibly to the start kite anyway to give me a chance to read the map. 1 went ok but I was a bit unsure. 2 I second guessed myself a lot. Should have just used the fence. Was gaining more confidence as I went though had some weird times with the paths for 4. Got a lot better after that and was feeling pretty fast heading to 6. Ken caught me on the road towards 8. I stuck with him almost all the way to 9, but on the path he was a bit quicker. Rescued 10 well. I was afraid of 12 though I shouldn't have been. It was just a huge rough compass bearing with nothing but catching features. David caught me just as I got my confidence in where I was back so the latter half was better. The end was ok but I got a bit tired. Silly no attackpoint on 13 and got shocked right in the nethers by the fence going to 14. Wasn't the nicest.

In the forest I was could keep up with people and the speed was good from that perspective. Need to tidy up in the circles and be quicker on the roads.

H21 - Splits

Nose totally blocked up now.

Throat still at me. Probably worse than yesterday. Presenting to the scientific attache for China today so no rest for the wicked.

Sore throat this morning. Not the best.

In Ireland for the week. Super busy with work, including after work things so there probably won't be much training. Early morning today getting up for my flight.