Training Log Archive: FrostbiteIn the 7 days ending Oct 5, 2014:
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Sunday Oct 5, 2014 #
orienteering race 1:06:38 [4] 7.5 km (8:53 / km)
Formby, Short Brown. Not feeling great before I started, sore belly and just not very into it. Started slowly and kept going slowly, always struggling to keep moving, and still made heaps of mistakes.
#2, turned at the wrong path junction, 1 minute
#4, distracted by the unmapped path at the road crossing, ran right past the control and headed to the one on the next knoll, 1 minute
#9, went straight to the right place, looked in the first depression and decided I was wrong, headed on to the next hill then turned back and looked in the second depression. Doh. 2 minutes
#12, complete misinterpretation of the map - I thought the big depression before the control was a hill. I tried to go from one hill to the next hill and couldn't work out why I was in the wrong place. Soon relocated, but it cost me another minute.
Clean enough apart from those, but generally very hesitant and unsure in the circle. I was just finding the map very hard to interpret. I looked at the map from 4 years ago and it is all much clearer - paler colours and finer lines and much more readable. There is still a problem with overall land shapes though, areas of dunes marked as lots of individual hills and holes with no idea how they relate to each other.
Planning wasn't great either - on several legs the direct line was across out of bounds, which was bare sand and not clearly defined. Clearly from the footprints many runners were skirting the edge of the sand and it is not clear if this is in bounds or not.
15 minutes down on Charlie, who didn't have a great run either.
#2, turned at the wrong path junction, 1 minute
#4, distracted by the unmapped path at the road crossing, ran right past the control and headed to the one on the next knoll, 1 minute
#9, went straight to the right place, looked in the first depression and decided I was wrong, headed on to the next hill then turned back and looked in the second depression. Doh. 2 minutes
#12, complete misinterpretation of the map - I thought the big depression before the control was a hill. I tried to go from one hill to the next hill and couldn't work out why I was in the wrong place. Soon relocated, but it cost me another minute.
Clean enough apart from those, but generally very hesitant and unsure in the circle. I was just finding the map very hard to interpret. I looked at the map from 4 years ago and it is all much clearer - paler colours and finer lines and much more readable. There is still a problem with overall land shapes though, areas of dunes marked as lots of individual hills and holes with no idea how they relate to each other.
Planning wasn't great either - on several legs the direct line was across out of bounds, which was bare sand and not clearly defined. Clearly from the footprints many runners were skirting the edge of the sand and it is not clear if this is in bounds or not.
15 minutes down on Charlie, who didn't have a great run either.
Friday Oct 3, 2014 #
running 1:10:23 [2] 7.0 mi (10:03 / mi)
ahr:138 max:156
Very sedate Butcher Hill, Newlay, Kirkstall. Heart rate was a bit erratic for the firs 4 minutes (including the 156 peak) but I felt fine and carried on. It settled ok.
Tuesday Sep 30, 2014 #
running 1:07:00 [1] 4.5 mi (14:53 / mi)
ahr:130 max:170
Troubled from the start. Had a ten minute sit down in Meanwood woods, decided to carry on anyway because it was such a lovely evening. Plodded up to Adel Dam very slow, plodded back very slow, did a sprint when I was on the flat by Smithy Mills which was fine but not sustainable, plodded home.