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Training Log Archive: Spur

In the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2015:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Orienteering	15	13:11:47	57.54	(13:46)	92.6	(8:33)	1290
Walking	5	3:35:00	11.81	(18:13)	19.0	(11:19)	150
Running	2	54:00	4.54	(11:54)	7.3	(7:24)
Hill Running	1	42:30	2.55	(16:38)	4.11	(10:20)	350
Total	17	18:23:17	76.43	(14:26)	123.01	(8:58)	1790

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Sunday Aug 30, 2015 #

Orienteering race 17:35 [3] 2.74 km (6:25 / km) +50m 5:53 / km

Stag 3 parks race 1, Cathkin Braes. Took it fairly steady to avoid any disasters and only a couple of small wobbles, happy with 6th.

Orienteering race 14:20 [3] 2.39 km (6:00 / km) +55m 5:23 / km

Race 2 Queens Park. Stupid 40s basic mistake at #4 looking on wrong side of path but ran the rest well and a solid 5th place. Two mins behind John McK overall and 3 mins ahead of a pack including Steve.

Orienteering race 20:12 [3] 3.4 km (5:56 / km) +50m 5:32 / km

Race 3 Pollok. Happy with local park selection this year and nailed this one. Caught John at 9 from 2 mins back although slightly wide to 11 and lost a few yards, got back to right behind at 13 but had spent too much energy catching and got outsprinted in the run in. Good fun race there and a good 5th overall.

Orienteering 40:00 [3] 3.8 km (10:32 / km)

Control collecting at Cathkin and Pollok.

Thursday Aug 27, 2015 #

Orienteering 22:32 [3] 4.48 km (5:02 / km)

Stag Glasgow Green/Glasgow urban evening race. Typical fare, decent run, a few dodgy citizens en route, struggling to locate controls when collecting the 'medium' course ones afterwards...great map into the city so a good mixture.

Tuesday Aug 25, 2015 #

Orienteering 50:00 [3] 5.0 km (10:00 / km) +50m 9:31 / km

Clyde training at Rouken Glen. Two sprints to warm up for the 3 parks races.

Monday Aug 24, 2015 #

Running 40:00 [3] 5.0 km (8:00 / km)

Repeat of yesterday's route.

Sunday Aug 23, 2015 #

Orienteering 40:00 [3] 5.0 km (8:00 / km)

Southside turfs

Thursday Aug 20, 2015 #

Orienteering race 29:02 [3] 5.15 km (5:38 / km)

STAG evening race at Kelvingrove. Pretty clean run and reasonable pace, 6th place.

Monday Aug 17, 2015 #

Orienteering 1:30:00 [3] 5.0 km (18:00 / km)

Mapping fieldwork for a small map I started 2 years ago....

Sunday Aug 16, 2015 #

Hill Running 42:30 [3] 4.11 km (10:20 / km) +350m 7:15 / km

Up and down Dumgoyne from the distillery, to see sunset over Loch Lomond.

Saturday Aug 15, 2015 #

Orienteering 22:59 [3] 4.01 km (5:44 / km) +50m 5:24 / km

Running the Bannockburn sprint map that I missed due to illness. Pretty clean so must have been short of race speed...

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Saturday Aug 8, 2015 #

Walking 30:00 [3] 2.5 km (12:00 / km) +150m 9:14 / km

Walk to the start

Orienteering race 1:05:31 [3] 6.5 km (10:05 / km) +200m 8:44 / km

Day 6 Glen Affric. Mostly nicer terrain than yesterday apart from a section of windblow on the last downhill. Happy enough with a solid end to the week, although lost a few minutes on the long leg drifting right and giving myself extra climb. 7th on the day and 8th overall.

Made enough mistakes that top 3 should have been achievable so a bit disappointed overall, although enjoyed watching the World Champs.

Friday Aug 7, 2015 #

Walking 45:00 [1] 3.5 km (12:51 / km)

Walking to start / back from finish.

Orienteering race 1:13:51 [3] 7.14 km (10:21 / km) +220m 8:58 / km

Day 5 Glen Affric. Ran well for most of it, although found boggy tracks and sections of conifers/brashings fairly tiresome, and made another late error throwing away over 5 mins when near the control, so fairly frustrated. Surprised to finish 7th.

Thursday Aug 6, 2015 #

Walking 1:00:00 [3] 5.0 km (12:00 / km)

Walk to/from starts and various pacing around organising the start.

Orienteering race 55:35 [3] 7.05 km (7:53 / km) +135m 7:12 / km

Day 4 Darnaway West. Too many errors, couldn't make sense of several pieces of vegetation. 11th today so not enough days left to reverse this underperformance overall.

Wednesday Aug 5, 2015 #

Orienteering race 33:01 [3] 4.01 km (8:14 / km) +110m 7:14 / km

Day 3 middle race at Darnaway. Going well with only minor wobbles until an annoying 90 second error near the end that cost me 4 places. 9th today, ok but should have been better.

Walking 30:00 [3] 3.0 km (10:00 / km)

To the start then setting up tomorrow's start.

Tuesday Aug 4, 2015 #

Orienteering race 23:07 [3] 3.89 km (5:57 / km) +80m 5:23 / km

Forres sprint race. Despite an issue with a closed gate, was still going really well (in 18th place) when I left the park but threw the run away again by going down the hill instead of up the hill on the slope and ended up in 40th.

Running 14:00 [3] 2.3 km (6:05 / km)

Jog round the woodland trails behind the house, to the war memorial on the golf course.

Monday Aug 3, 2015 #

Orienteering race 1:10:58 [3] 6.85 km (10:22 / km) +140m 9:24 / km

Day 2 Strathfarrar. Abysmal outing, running well in 5th until capitulation in a sea of bracken en route to #6 and unable to relocate until finding #8! Write-off (i hope..)

Walking 50:00 [3] 5.0 km (10:00 / km)

To and from start/assembly.

Sunday Aug 2, 2015 #

Orienteering race 53:26 [3] 7.19 km (7:26 / km) +115m 6:53 / km

6day Day 1 at Achagour. A few 30 second misses but solid overall and very pleased to finish 3rd today.

Saturday Aug 1, 2015 #

Orienteering 47:25 [3] 4.71 km (10:04 / km)

Terrain run in Culbin.

Orienteering race 22:13 [3] 4.29 km (5:11 / km) +35m 4:59 / km

Nairn Mens Open Sprint, after the WOC Sprint relay. Wobbles on 1 and 2 but settled into a solid run after that.

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