Training Log Archive: Old DanielIn the 7 days ending May 7, 2016:
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Saturday May 7, 2016 #
1 AM
off road 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Warm up
2 AM
orienteering race 1:00:48 [5] 6.9 km (8:49 / km)
NGOC Mallards Pike N , hot day, not best bit of forest quite a lot of felled / rough open so took track routes a lot - just one control where I went in silly early
Controlling for a couple of hours later
Controlling for a couple of hours later
Friday May 6, 2016 #
off road 57:01 [3] 5.5 mi (10:22 / mi)
Blaise from car park -hot, humid late afternoon, felt I struggled a bit but time fine
Wednesday May 4, 2016 #
12 AM
orienteering 20:00 [3] 1.5 mi (13:20 / mi)
Downs warm up
2 AM
orienteering race (Urban) 33:20 [5] 3.7 km (9:01 / km)
Urban around university halls- long sprint
Made a compete horlicks of this -started ok but ran 14,15, 16 tried to navigate from 15 map did not fit decided gone to 16- so back to 15 &16. Also went to 20 so had to go back to 19. Still disturbingly slow 3-4 mins down on rivals. Confirmation that I am going quite a lot slower than last year -will just need to get used to this! don't think I am going to get much joy out of Urbans
Made a compete horlicks of this -started ok but ran 14,15, 16 tried to navigate from 15 map did not fit decided gone to 16- so back to 15 &16. Also went to 20 so had to go back to 19. Still disturbingly slow 3-4 mins down on rivals. Confirmation that I am going quite a lot slower than last year -will just need to get used to this! don't think I am going to get much joy out of Urbans
Tuesday May 3, 2016 #
12 AM
off road 20:00 [3] 1.0 mi (20:00 / mi)
A bit early so Ashton Plantation to warm up
2 AM
off road 1:05:00 [3] 6.0 mi (10:50 / mi)
BOK run from Failand - sort of Portbury run in reverse -lovely evening went passed Thynesfield house - not been here before
Monday May 2, 2016 #
off road 1:15:06 [3] 8.0 mi (9:23 / mi)
CW from the Dog -ground bone dry and so quick, with the wind (and still wound up with the failure on Saturday ran quick to the turn 3740. Deliberately throttled back a bit on the return journey.
Knees still complaining about tussocks
Knees still complaining about tussocks
Sunday May 1, 2016 #
1 AM
off road 10 [2] 1.0 mi (10 / mi)
Warm up
2 AM
orienteering race 31:48 [5] 4.1 km (7:45 / km)
British Relays.
I thought this was a poor race. Perhaps because of the class we were running it just seemed that much of the navigation was trivial. I am quite surprised its possible to plan such a poor course in such a good area. True you had to cross fences, true they had made the relay and long very distinct. Perhaps if they had planned a classic rather than long middle there would have been scope for some route choices and a few more technical legs in the relay
There are two secrets to relay success- choose good team mates- and carry the baton round. My knees were really quite knackered after the tussocks and I needed time to to take ibuprofen and then stop feeling sick.
So I was pleased that Pete Maliphant took the first leg (its a good idea to put your best technical runner on this leg so you get a good start ). Pete had clearly read the script and did the job with no mistakes back a few places but almost no time behind the leaders. John Simmons who the script said was the old guy ignored this and was superb. We were second, which I suspect was probably as good as we could possibly have done. All very pleased with this result
I thought this was a poor race. Perhaps because of the class we were running it just seemed that much of the navigation was trivial. I am quite surprised its possible to plan such a poor course in such a good area. True you had to cross fences, true they had made the relay and long very distinct. Perhaps if they had planned a classic rather than long middle there would have been scope for some route choices and a few more technical legs in the relay
There are two secrets to relay success- choose good team mates- and carry the baton round. My knees were really quite knackered after the tussocks and I needed time to to take ibuprofen and then stop feeling sick.
So I was pleased that Pete Maliphant took the first leg (its a good idea to put your best technical runner on this leg so you get a good start ). Pete had clearly read the script and did the job with no mistakes back a few places but almost no time behind the leaders. John Simmons who the script said was the old guy ignored this and was superb. We were second, which I suspect was probably as good as we could possibly have done. All very pleased with this result