Training Log Archive: rcro

Can’t be arsed to keep the streak going. Feeling mostly better but cold outside and want to be better still tomorrow night

Event: After Dark 5
 

Event: Night Street Event
 

Street O in North Cardiff. Feeling better today - but sounding worse. Just glad to get out and wanted a decent run rather than maximising score.

S-1-2-3-9-11-4-15-10-13-18-27-19-26-31-28-14-17-29-22-23-16-24-25-5-F. 540 points less penalty for being 2.5 mins late

Well planned as was on my own right from the start. Wiggled around with a slow start deciding which dead ends to run down and took a while working out how best to get 10 and 15, eventually changing my mind which way to go across railway, opting for downhill finish.

Picked up pace later on as knew I was going to tag on 24 at the end and would make timing pretty tight. Got there and decided 25 would add less than 3 minutes so went for that with a push back up at the end.

Pretty good run given I could barely do anything yesterday.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1420973177

Struggling with cold all day at work so kept it short tonight. Better for getting out than staying in at home.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1419168285

MDC run from Tonypandy. Weather good so much better than the previous two times I've been here. Nice run and good pace, mostly smooth running apart from rough track descent.

Suffering with a bit of a cold that came on during the night - glad of a jacket on the top.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1417716948

Token jog to keep the streak going. At times reducing effort but warm so still worked up a sweat.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1415957403

Pictures - 31:07, 3.07km, 100m ascent
Doing a good job visualising the map and found most of the tapes straight away where I was expecting them. But maybe contours need a bit of work in the section between 1 and 3. Things took a turn for the worse after 9 when reached a distinct point where stopped being able to reconcile the map - and spent a while going around relocating, and succeeding backwards but not forwards - turns out I was trying to fit against an identical combination of features to the ones I thought I was. Went up to some double tapes that clearly weren't 10 but never twigged was 5 - so bailed out and restarted (with no difficulty) half way between 10 and 11.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1414219145

Control Pick - 14:57, 1.54km, 75m ascent
Much better. Found everything quite quickly - and sooner than I believed so for a few I was quite sceptical that I was in the right place and did some validations, then continued on with caution. Did get distracted by another tape by 14 - but confirmed it wasn't mine and relocated quickly.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1414219175

Relocation - 48:58, 4.62km, 140m ascent
With rickyp. Quite a good exercise given rickyp got himself lost in trying to get me lost. Got my revenge by being quite sneaky back to him and tricked him with an induced 90 degree error. To be honest, features close to the controls was a bit too strong to make difficult without going significantly out of the way. Good fun.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1414207057

Relay - 13:10 1.20km, 60m ascent
Went out 2nd, which I think was a mistake. Didn't believe that the rest of the team had actually been to 1 without me seeing (despite them saying between them they did) so went out at the end just for the sake of getting some distance in. Time includes a lot of stopping and waiting.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1414218778

Thanks to Mark, Alice, Meg, Ben and others for a great weekend!

Tagging onto WJS/SWJS/SCJS training weekend on Gower.

Warm up - 12:09, 1.77km, 40m ascent
https://www.strava.com/activities/1412671486

Corridors - 18:32, 2.25km, 40m ascent
First half following the corridor, second following the empty strip. Well on top of it until the switch when distracted by the change and didn't know what to do, so stopped looking at map and stood by a stile for a couple of minutes to think. Think I fell off the second half briefly but quite clean
https://www.strava.com/activities/1412671317

Attackpoints- 18:23, 2.55km, 45m ascent
Clean.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1412671581

Map memory - 21:44, 2.96km, 90m ascent
Broadly ok. 1 miss at top of map where re-entrant wasn't as clear as I expected and didn't see the tag and another a bit later where went to wrong fence crossing to relocate - so ran straight past control.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1412671400

Contours - 13:24, 1.82km, 50m ascent
Clean
https://www.strava.com/activities/1412671564

Beacons - 20:36, 2.66km, 85m ascent
Clean, but had to keep clear from spooked horses.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1412668670

Nice map and good day to be out.

Night practice at Whiteford Burrows. 45 mins score.

Very useful practice for next week and shows areas of strength and weakness. Probably not the best route, executed badly in places, and overdressed when it came to running so a little distracted (and shoelaces kept coming undone!)

Stopped too early for the first, ok on next, then ran straight past the third (which was apparently in the wrong place so not all bad!), and mess of the 4th by stopping too early twice and parallel error. After making a mess of 3 of first 4 thought all was lost but actually got the rest all clean. Maybe better routes could have been taken - bailing out to E path (which was underwater) a couple of times as recalled terrain was quite unpleasant W of fence but others said afterwards it was fine.

Know a few things to pay close attention to next weekend.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1412671480