Training Log Archive: Lulu

JK Day 2, Bigland. W18E, 6.9km.
This was made harder by the fact I couldn't read the bloody 1:15000 map D: Anyway, good to #1and2 (although made harder in the open by the mist). #3 I was much too far left. Noticed a tiny little fenced area and re-attacked from there. Lots of people I spoke to were too far left on this control as well... #7 I wasn't quite sure what was what when I got within the circle so wandered for a bit until a group of people came along and led me into the control:/ #11 was a mega leg. Never been faced with anything like that before. Didn't know what route to take but tried to stay near the line so stayed high and attacked from the top of the hill. Scrappy into it, though; I always knew where I was but I kept going the wrong way so had to keep readjusting -.- (dad showed me his route after, which was dropping down, and I realised that that would have been much better! But ah well...) #12 I just wasn't in the right reentrant! Eventually found it. Shoutout to Beth for guiding me into #13 (thanks:D) ;) Another long leg to #14 which I think I took a good route for! It was simple so allowed me to run faster and gave me a good AP into the control at the end. #16 I just couldn't read the detail and so wandered for a bit before stopping and squinting at the map to work out what was going on... Nasty uphill finish:/ Third average run of the weekend. 18th. Again. 17th overall.

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Wu jog to start. Small wd.

JK Day 2, Ulpha Park and Barrow Fell. W18E, 4.4km.
Awesome flow through the first three controls, just a tiny miss on #3 as I did a small loop around the top of the spur. #4 on the fell was bad... I took a bearing and also contoured across the slope, but I went too high and missed it. Went to two other controls on similar, parallel crags before realising I had gone much too far. Lost ~4mins. Next couple of legs across the more technical slope were very good. #10 across the road I missed as I was too low on the slope. Adjusted fairly quickly but still lost maybe 2mins. Rest of the controls were then fine again, but #14 up the hill was a killer... A long way behind Fiona in the end but another average run that was what I expected. 18th.

Event: Jan Kjellstrom International Festival of Orienteering 2015
 

Good wu to start and some drills when I got there. Not so good wd... It was raining and I was cold:/

JK Sprint. W18E, 3.7km.
Felt like the limited geeking I did of the map helped me a bit which was comforting. Pretty smooth through most of the controls, just struggled to pick routes on some of them. One of the longer legs I definitely missed the shortest route as I didn't realise that they way I had planned was blocked off:/ Lost about 20secs on #8 where I got slightly confused and went through the wrong underpass so had to run around the building. Apart from this I was just steady and nowhere near fast enough to be up with the top girls. Not disappointed with this run; it was just what I expected really.

Vs Monumentals. Lady on our team fell badly on her ankle so we had to stop for 10 mins in the middle of the match:/ but I felt really fit, which was unexpected. Didn't feel like I was putting much effort in but apparently I was and so they gave me player of the match... Nice. We won:D

Wu to Bike Shop. Cooooooold.....

3 x ~670m. 5 x ~170m. Legs absolutely shattered tonight.... (hence intensity 4 and not 5 like is usually is!) Hopefully lots of sleep before the JK will liven them up a bit! Dont think the freezing wind helped either.

WD back to pavilion. Warmed up a bit.