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Thursday Aug 1, 2013 #
Orienteering race (S6D - Loch of Boath) 54:38 [3] 7.23 km (7:33 / km) +215m 6:35 / km
slept:5.0 weight:67.7kg shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
Scottish day 4 at Loch of Boath. 6.3km M21S course.
After feeling faint for the last two days made sure to have eaten even more and wasn't going to push too hard.
From the start, led everybody down the ride and across the stream. Clean to 1 and 2 - for 3 went down to the path and along as thought it was quickest for me. On 6 went path in, straight out.
Straight on 7-8, skirted the marsh by going over the lumpy bit. The stream crossing was very deep and muddy - ankle tape didn't survive so I knew to be careful from there on in. Small mistake on 8 - went to a smaller, unmapped, adjacent hillock first, must be used to the 2.5m contours rather than today's 5m. 20-30s lost.
Knocked off course of 10-11 so in the green. Found it easier to cross the stream and go along to the north side of it as far as the road. Got foot trapped under the end of a fallen branch and tripped quite badly - hurt left wrist and cut the hand such that there'll be yet another new scar - still all swollen from pre-Harvester so unsure what damage has been done.
12-13 went onto the path to the east, didn't expect the elevation change to be so much but still think it was best route for me. Right foot landed awkwardly on a bit of wood and jarred a bit. Hurts a bit still this evening but maybe lack of painkillers to suppress. Then onto 14 and the finish - very rough underfoot so quite slow.
Ran much better than I had expected. Maybe 2-3 mins of errors compared against a perfect day. Still lacking energy somewhat so left pretty soon after finishing. Didn't really notice the climb - much easier going than the Forest of Dean but much more like what I'm used to than the previous days.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/351826540
After feeling faint for the last two days made sure to have eaten even more and wasn't going to push too hard.
From the start, led everybody down the ride and across the stream. Clean to 1 and 2 - for 3 went down to the path and along as thought it was quickest for me. On 6 went path in, straight out.
Straight on 7-8, skirted the marsh by going over the lumpy bit. The stream crossing was very deep and muddy - ankle tape didn't survive so I knew to be careful from there on in. Small mistake on 8 - went to a smaller, unmapped, adjacent hillock first, must be used to the 2.5m contours rather than today's 5m. 20-30s lost.
Knocked off course of 10-11 so in the green. Found it easier to cross the stream and go along to the north side of it as far as the road. Got foot trapped under the end of a fallen branch and tripped quite badly - hurt left wrist and cut the hand such that there'll be yet another new scar - still all swollen from pre-Harvester so unsure what damage has been done.
12-13 went onto the path to the east, didn't expect the elevation change to be so much but still think it was best route for me. Right foot landed awkwardly on a bit of wood and jarred a bit. Hurts a bit still this evening but maybe lack of painkillers to suppress. Then onto 14 and the finish - very rough underfoot so quite slow.
Ran much better than I had expected. Maybe 2-3 mins of errors compared against a perfect day. Still lacking energy somewhat so left pretty soon after finishing. Didn't really notice the climb - much easier going than the Forest of Dean but much more like what I'm used to than the previous days.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/351826540