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Sunday May 6, 2012 #
12 PM
Orienteering race (British relay champs) 37:37 [4] *** 7.45 km (5:03 / km) +225m 4:23 / km
spiked:17/21c shoes: Inov8 oroc 280 (old)
british relay orienteering champs 2012 - helsington barrows, in a team with Duncan on first and Keith on second and me on third.
keith and duncan came back in a good position , and i just aimed for keeping it clean rather than fast , went to the wrong depression on #2 +25 secs , was ok through the middle of the course , then had an annoying 10 , where i ran straight to the control , but misread the description and ran away to check another hill , took a fair bit of time to realise and re-check my descriptions , +50 secs , apart from that it was alright , messed up the angle to 15 a bit but +10 secs lost tops. finished in a reasonable position.
unfourtanetly on this occasion Duncan decided he didn't feel like being a team player and decided that getting the the finish before johnny was more important that getting all the controls on his course. i knew this before i ran , but didnt let this put me off to much , pleased with the weekend overall :---)
keith and duncan came back in a good position , and i just aimed for keeping it clean rather than fast , went to the wrong depression on #2 +25 secs , was ok through the middle of the course , then had an annoying 10 , where i ran straight to the control , but misread the description and ran away to check another hill , took a fair bit of time to realise and re-check my descriptions , +50 secs , apart from that it was alright , messed up the angle to 15 a bit but +10 secs lost tops. finished in a reasonable position.
unfourtanetly on this occasion Duncan decided he didn't feel like being a team player and decided that getting the the finish before johnny was more important that getting all the controls on his course. i knew this before i ran , but didnt let this put me off to much , pleased with the weekend overall :---)
1 PM
Warm up/ warm down warm up/down (warm up/down) 5:00 [2] 0.48 km (10:25 / km)
shoes: Inov8 oroc 280 (old)
Saturday May 5, 2012 #
Event: BOC 2012
1 PM
Warm up/ warm down warm up/down (Warm up ) 9:49 [2] 1.14 km (8:37 / km)
shoes: Inov8 oroc 280 (old)
Warm up , not a log one , just a gentle jog up the slope , and a few drills on the rough ground , quite hot while warming up in the sun .
2 PM
Orienteering race (British champs 2012) 1:20:38 [4] *** 12.8 km (6:18 / km) +540m 5:12 / km
spiked:24/27c shoes: Inov8 oroc 280 (old)
British championships 2012 -dalegarth lake district M18E
Went out with low expectations ( maybe I perform best like this , I.e jk day 2 )
Took a couple of controls to get into the map, took the first 2 nice and slow to get into it , , made a smal cufufle on 4 when I ran to te wrong hill , but quickly realised +20 secs , missed the rope crossing on the way to 6 and had to cross further down , 7 was fun , but I was suprised when the hill had crags on it , small +25 on 8 , number 10 was risky ran a bit to fast
On a bearing and had to relocate a couple
Of times , but got there with not to much lost +30 secs , not concentrating 11,12 small +10/15 made on both , 13 ran hard , had to relocate in the circle +15 secs , 14 was very hard to see on the map , lost +30 secs , as I was in te wrong re-entrant , bad route on 18 , going through all the hilly stuff and then down to the stream + 45 secs , 20 was stupid , went straight up the hill not seeing the round route +1 min , after that kept it clean to the finish , unlike a lot .
Really pleased to finish in 3rd as a bottom year , 1:20 behind ciaran and a min down on Aidan :-)) then 4 mins up on chris on 4th , pretty chufffed :-) best ever British result , and 3rd at jk and British , I'll take that happily , just a shame the British isn't an eyoc race , ah well :-)
Went out with low expectations ( maybe I perform best like this , I.e jk day 2 )
Took a couple of controls to get into the map, took the first 2 nice and slow to get into it , , made a smal cufufle on 4 when I ran to te wrong hill , but quickly realised +20 secs , missed the rope crossing on the way to 6 and had to cross further down , 7 was fun , but I was suprised when the hill had crags on it , small +25 on 8 , number 10 was risky ran a bit to fast
On a bearing and had to relocate a couple
Of times , but got there with not to much lost +30 secs , not concentrating 11,12 small +10/15 made on both , 13 ran hard , had to relocate in the circle +15 secs , 14 was very hard to see on the map , lost +30 secs , as I was in te wrong re-entrant , bad route on 18 , going through all the hilly stuff and then down to the stream + 45 secs , 20 was stupid , went straight up the hill not seeing the round route +1 min , after that kept it clean to the finish , unlike a lot .
Really pleased to finish in 3rd as a bottom year , 1:20 behind ciaran and a min down on Aidan :-)) then 4 mins up on chris on 4th , pretty chufffed :-) best ever British result , and 3rd at jk and British , I'll take that happily , just a shame the British isn't an eyoc race , ah well :-)
3 PM
Warm up/ warm down warm up/down (warm down) 4:07 [2] 0.56 km (7:24 / km)
shoes: Inov8 oroc 280 (old)
Friday May 4, 2012 #
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(rest day)
resting for tommorow , never felt so demotivated for the British before , im not sure if its because its moorland or because of exams or what :L hopefully i will feel more up for it tommorow though :-)
10 AM
cycling (Into college) 28:11 [2] 11.5 km (2:27 / km)
Into college , not to bad , feeling reasonably fresh :-) , almost got ran over on a roundabout though by someone on there phone :@
Thursday May 3, 2012 #
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(rest day)
Note
got selected for nick's Stockholm tour , and it sounds like there is some good races which should be good experience :-) , glad people like nick provide opportunities for a wide base of people , definetly not mentioning any big uk orienteering organisations who currently don't
8 AM
cycling (Into college) 30:38 [2] 11.4 km (2:41 / km)
Easy into college , rained a bit , didnt get to wet :)
5 PM
cycling (Home from college) 29:27 [2] 11.0 km (2:41 / km)
Stayed back for 3 hours to do revesion. So got back quite late
Wednesday May 2, 2012 #
8 AM
cycling (Into college) 29:33 [2] 11.5 km (2:34 / km)
Into college , overslept by an hour but still managed to get into college 10 mins earlier than yesterday :-) quite low traffic , little wind etc :) felt dead tired though :/
4 PM
cycling (Home from college) 32:08 [2] 11.4 km (2:49 / km)
Stayed behind for revision again , quite warm weather on the way back.
6 PM
Orienteering race ( urban series #3 wrington) 34:39 [4] *** 8.11 km (4:16 / km) +70m 4:06 / km
ahr:167 max:183 spiked:22/26c shoes: Inov8 Terrafly 303
bok urban series #3 at wrington , ( a small village in somerset )
reasonable weather , felt pretty tired before hand , slept all the way there. never really felt that i was that into it , running wasnt to bad , there wasnt much decision making at it was quite a runners course , but i did make a fair few mistakes , #4 i didnt see the little path and ran all the way round , +20 secs , almost fell flat on my face coming out of 5 , by a really slippery bit of mud on the small path around the park , then the orienteering became boring and pointless , and it was just long legs round public footpaths along fields for about 2k , then it got back into the intresting stuff , was ok for the majority until the end , where i binned +10 secs looking for a very well hidden control , 2 others were looking for it at the same time as me , before i spotted it stuffed inside a bush , then messed up 25 a fair bit , thought that the planner may have put it on the side i looked for routechoice to #26 but i should have looked at descriptions really , even after not seeing it , i looked round the back of the small building by the wall before working out it was on the other side . +30 secs
not a bad run , but not as well as i wanted , geoff got 32 , and ben beat me by a second , felt rather tired , heart rate a bit low , not sure if its the cycling and revision and not getting great sleep or maybe still recovering from the black on sunday :L hopefully i will be more alert for the british , i cant seem to concentrate atall when im tired :L
reasonable weather , felt pretty tired before hand , slept all the way there. never really felt that i was that into it , running wasnt to bad , there wasnt much decision making at it was quite a runners course , but i did make a fair few mistakes , #4 i didnt see the little path and ran all the way round , +20 secs , almost fell flat on my face coming out of 5 , by a really slippery bit of mud on the small path around the park , then the orienteering became boring and pointless , and it was just long legs round public footpaths along fields for about 2k , then it got back into the intresting stuff , was ok for the majority until the end , where i binned +10 secs looking for a very well hidden control , 2 others were looking for it at the same time as me , before i spotted it stuffed inside a bush , then messed up 25 a fair bit , thought that the planner may have put it on the side i looked for routechoice to #26 but i should have looked at descriptions really , even after not seeing it , i looked round the back of the small building by the wall before working out it was on the other side . +30 secs
not a bad run , but not as well as i wanted , geoff got 32 , and ben beat me by a second , felt rather tired , heart rate a bit low , not sure if its the cycling and revision and not getting great sleep or maybe still recovering from the black on sunday :L hopefully i will be more alert for the british , i cant seem to concentrate atall when im tired :L
C • #25 2
7 PM
Warm up/ warm down warm up/down (warm down) 10:09 [2] 0.65 km (15:37 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Terrafly 303
JOGGING AND STRETCHING
Tuesday May 1, 2012 #
8 AM
cycling (Into college) 36:36 [2] 11.5 km (3:11 / km)
Into college , heavy rain from start to finish , crossed with load sod traffic as everyone decided to drive to work , took a while , and all day for me to fully dry off :/ depressing , next time I will take a spare change of clothes .
4 PM
cycling (Home from college) 30:06 [2] 11.4 km (2:38 / km)
Complete weather change , it was sunny , the roads were dry and it was quite warm and I was just in a t shirt , quite enjoyable , a fair but of traffic around violations where there was about 3 police cars who decided to park in the middle of the road ? Surely parking on the edge won't make that much diffrence in time ?? Didn't see what it was about though , looked like it was in one of the houses .
7 PM
running (Easy 30 mins ) 30:01 [3] 5.96 km (5:02 / km) +100m 4:39 / km
ahr:151 max:178
Easy 30 min run , sunny , blue skies, down to oldbury court and along the bottom path by a very flooded and muddy river , then to snuff mills up the hill and back past the park home , a bit hillier and muddier than usual , felt fine :-) and I enjoyed it
8 PM
Warm up/ warm down warm up/down (Warm down) 5:47 [1]
STRETCHING
Monday Apr 30, 2012 #
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(rest day)
should have warmed down , got "doms" especially in my hip
8 AM
cycling (Into college ) 32:15 [2] 11.3 km (2:51 / km)
Into college , a load of traffic and my legs were feeling heavy
4 PM
cycling 34:21 [2] 11.4 km (3:01 / km)
Back home , quite sunny :)