Training Log Archive: Tamsin

We Won!!! :D Katie did a great job of coming back in 8th, not far down, and then Fiona had a fantastic run to bring us up to 3rd, then I went out not far behind Katrina and Zoe. I hit the first couple cleanly, but then hesitated on 3. Went fine through to 7; had different gaffles to Zoe and Katrina so saw them alot but we weren't going to the same controls. We all seemed (although didn't know it at the time) to have the same gaffle after the spectator control. Had a wobble on 14 and lost quite a bit of time on 17. Managed to get ahead on the hill up to the last control and had a bit of a mad sprint at the end... Never really expected to win, but knew we had a good team. Such a good way to end my last JIRCs. :D Such a great weekend... not sure I'll be rushing back to Sandringham though!

Last JIRCs :( Pretty bad run. Probably lost 5mins though I haven't seen any splits. Lost time on 2, 14 and 18, plus some 30secs errors including 6 (hill top in a forest full of bracken - actual control was hung from a tree so it could be seen!), and 20. Somehow came 4th by 11 seconds - was expecting to be well down but it seems everyone else made mistakes too. Just under 2 mins behind Lucy who won. Pretty annoyed to be so close to top 3. Running was good though - pushed hard when I could.

Stubbington RR10 somewhere near Gosport. Pretty uninspiring course around some country park grassland area. Plan was to take it steady and not to push it too much. Felt really good and could have pushed myself harder; didn't really feel tired at all after, which is good considering min/km were faster than last time so have improved on speed, though it was a fast course. Less people there this evening so came 14th.

So my group were doing 5 x 500m but I just did 3 seeing as its the JIRCs this weekend and RR10 tomorrow (which I intend not to kill myself on) and as I seem to be doing no other summer orienteering of any standard I might aswell go for it at the weekend. Times were... 1.44, 1.44, 1.45. This was meant to be 1500m pace or faster. There is no way I could do a 5.15 1500m though.

Recoveries.

Easy run.