Training Log Archive: Ollie

SO Level C event at Cowdray Wood, near Worth. 6.1km Black course. Tried to keep the tempo up as course relatively short. Made two mistakes, both near a fence on the northern edge of the race area. The second mistake cost me at least two minutes.

Event: London Street-O Race #3: Clerkenwell
 

SLOW Clerkenwell Street-O. Cool, crisp evening. The map stretched from the Thames at Blackfriars, to the start of Liverpool Road in Angel, and included the Barbican and most of the western half of the City of London urban map - so, being very familiar with the layout, I concentrated on that. Took a gamble near the end and went up to Percy Circus from Mount Pleasant to get a 30-pointer just before the end - that, + a 20 pointer on the way back, gave me an edge and meant I finished third out of just under 90 runners, my best Street-O result for ages. I got one answer marked wrong (a parallel error) which was due to building work blocking a marked street - I assumed the street wasn't shown on the map, but it was.

Post-race pub (The Bowler) was very nice, even if it was >£10 for two pints of lager, especially as they gave us a free drink to say sorry for the food (which was excellent) taking so long to arrive.

To/from Putney. Raining gently the whole time.