Training Log Archive: Jay-T

Alerted to the fact that I am at the lofty position of 56th in the rankings. Undeniably grossly over-ranked but nevertheless that must be an all time high.

C • No more than you deserve 4

A very brief and muddy outing alongside the M8 with my headtorch (impressively still with at least 50% charge remaining following the BNC - evidently can't have had it on the highest setting enough!)

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Black Pippingford

Good fun again, started to struggle physically from around #16 though; not used to running this far, let alone successively!

#4 Very hesitant as the site did not fit my mental picture. 20s
#13 Too far west on hitting the stream. Also twisted my ankle here but managed to run it off. 15s
#24 Rough direction in from the path bend wasn't sufficient; milled around with some others too far north for a while. 1m 30s

12.2km 450m

1st Richard Robinson NOC M21 75:38
2nd Andrew Llewellyn NOC M21 76:05
3rd Joe Taunton NGOC M21 85:11
4th Helen Gardner SLOW W21 97:53
5th Johannes Felter SN M21 98:27
6th Mark Chapman SYO M45 100:49
7th Tony Burton MV M50 105:47
8th Oliver O'Brien SLOW M21 106:01
9th Ling Sang Angus Liu SLOW M21 109:48
10th Tom Raftery HH M21 125:17
rtd Simon Rawson SO M21

Event: British Night Championships / MV Regional SE League (UKOL)
 

A really enjoyable run, what a great sport this is!

Made quite a few errors early on; improved as the course went on.

#2 A little low and almost overshot, but was collected by the two walls in close proximity. 30s
#3 Tried to aim off to the left, but then was drawn to #4. Then too low and got stuck in the marsh. 1m 45s
#7 Racing Ifor Powell, too low, but again collected by a handy wall. 45s
#10 Took the straight route, but then lost discipline towards the end and had to follow up the stream for quite a way. 1m 30s
#11 Rushing the navigation, bounced off a flag that wasn't mine but came out on the path above. 1m
#16 Missed the path initially and so had to work my way through some thicker trees. 20s

11km 420m

1st Graham Gristwood FVO M21 63:41
2nd Jegor Kostylev INT M21 68:12
3rd Richard Robinson NOC M21 71:06
4th Nick Barrable SYO M40 73:11
5th Andrew Llewellyn NOC M21 78:22
6th Thomas Cochrane SLOW M21 81:36
7th Joe Taunton NGOC M21 82:23
8th Aaron Prince PAPO M21 91:51
9th Michael Balling SLOW M21 92:03
10th Scott Collier KERNO M21 94:01
11th Dan Findlay-Robinson SLOW M21 117:25
rtd Chris Williamson SOC M21
rtd Graham Parkes HH M21
m32-34 Neil Kerrison SN M35 108:05

Possibly an improvement on last year (nearer to RR, albeit further from the lead).

Bit of rain :(

Trying to improve serve... some success.

Nice to get a game. Wasn't playing particularly well though.

Away Match vs Royston A playing with Alan.
Won vs all three pairs in two; our level of play improving with the quality of the opposition.
Brent / Tom and Mick / Sam also picked up all three, though were both taken to three ends by their 1st pair.
Gave up on the short serve today; probably a good choice as none of the opposition had smashes that we couldn't handle relatively easily.
Overall 9-0 victory... keep up this kind of form and we're in real danger of getting promoted!