Training Log Archive: brokenanklekit

Despite Zak and Joss not seeming to be up for the warm up, I did it and felt reasonably good afterwards

Really good course, set out strong and stayed srong except a couple of mistakes at the end saused by rushing.
Good to beat Joss, a shame he mispunched, both for the team and also I couldn't gloat as much as if I had beaten him without that mistake.

Ran a map memory course which went well but I knew the area too well so it was more like a run with a head torch.Shadowed Meg who did Ok. The new head torches are really good but the battery is far heavier than I was expecting. The byes session I always think are going to be shit but turn out to be laugh.

Really hard run all the way up East hill down the other side for a couple of k and then all the way back in the pitch black.

On the way down and at the end.
The warm down at the end I didn't want to do because I was so depressed but I did it because I could feel myself seizing up.

BLEW THE BEST CHANCE I WILL EVER HAVE AT DOING WELL ON A NATIONAL SCALE!
I haven't seen the splits yet but talking to Joss I beat him on nearly every leg except the shit ones I messed up.
Breakdown:
Off to a good start, found a control and probably gained a lot of time because it was a long path leg. Then two got to the right area and just missed the control and then found it quickly. 3 was where it went wrong, I hit a small path that I though was a different path and ran all the way to the railway for a 6 minute leg. Didn't give up though, I knew i could discount a great result for a good one though. Then hit all the controls to 15 pretty well with relatively clean running. Caught Jamie at 9 but he missed it and I had to send him back so he couldn't follow me, shame.
Then between 14 to 15 I must have run 90 degrees the wrong way and just got more and more lost. I remember running back to 14 and running the wrong way again . I met Jamie who was also lost but I had no choice but to follow to him because I had given up and just had no idea. (had to use a tourist map at one point). Long story short I had a 17 minute leg. Then on the way back in I had no spirit to try but still got the controls at average speed.
Joss will rub this in my face for ages haha. I am almost certain without my two mistakes I could have run

Not sure what to feel about today, so glad I didn't have to do the Qualification event because I felt so bad after the 5 hour journey. The training was fun and no huge mistakes because of no pressure just sort of tried to look at the terrain. But a couple of times my head just wasn't geared in and I could tell I would have done badly.
Grey got DSQ for missing a control! Even if he had finished he would have only got an average placing anyway, his time looked OK.
After messing up the O maze I went in for the second attempt and got the quickest time of the day, haha the real competition!

Good night run, time is longer than it looks because of the warm up and a few stops, aswell as the caution necessary because of the pitch black running!

Wall after wall of white water made this one of the most depressing surfs I ahve ever done.

Really good session with everyone (large turnout), more working on speed than navigating but good in the dark because a little bit of navigation was needed. Came 3rd in the relay with my partner which was a shame!
NEED TO GET JOSS'S HEAD TORCH.

Jamie, Joss and me went for a fun course. The map is horribly out of date and hard to read but it was generally a good laugh. It was all about helping Jamie get better and so he found the route and me and Joss shadowed him, apart from a couple of controls he did really well.

Despite Grey getting us lost it was a really good run. So annoyed we missed the November classic.

Event: November Classic Weekend
 

Time and distant are approximate.
Really good day, as we started with a course to work on long legs. Hit all the controls really well except from 2, basically I thought the section where I should have turned off the path would be too vague so I did a bearing over a hill and went far too right and so ran off the map and so couldn't relocate,then saw Grey and I wasn't too far off which was good.
Then ran a course, focusing on accurate navigation which went well apart from a couple of legs which I thought I was in a different place,messed up Harry Butt's course!
Then did a map memory thing that was good as I got to the control without the map at all.
Then the individual relay I set ff not really trying and struggling to find the first control with the others and then I picked up the pace and beat Harry and we had different routes so I was pretty pleased. Still not sure how I did it because my first leg was so slow.

Tried to push myself but really hard to pace with no one else, so Grey beat me by 5 seconds :(
Also after the two days of hard training I was surprised to get under 10.10, so still pleased with that.

Tried to push myself but really hard to pace with no one else, so Grey beat me by 5 seconds :(
Also after the two days of hard training I was surprised to get under 10.10, so still pleased with that.

C • 3k TT 1

Had to wait for the girls and stay warm