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Training Log Archive: Olivia

In the 9 days ending Aug 4, 2013:

activity

time

miles

Orienteering

7:45:45

32.86

(14:10)

52.88

(8:48)

Running

2:30:51

9.3

(16:13)

14.97

(10:05)

Total

10:16:36

42.16

(14:38)

67.85

(9:05)

1:56

0:00

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Saturday Aug 3, 2013 #

Running warm up/down 20:43 [2] 1.95 km (10:37 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators

Walking/jogging up to the start

Orienteering race 1:25:49 [4] 8.71 km (9:51 / km)
ahr:155 max:176 shoes: VJ Integrators

Day 6, Coulmony and Belivat. Final day and my first clean race! I was really enjoying the course until the long leg where I just got a little bored as it wasn't particularly hard navigation, just long and really rough underfoot. I did see the pain train running past at one point and they looked like they were suffering!

Friday Aug 2, 2013 #

Running warm up/down 39:21 [2] 3.61 km (10:54 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators

Heading up to the start

Orienteering race 1:10:32 [4] 7.82 km (9:01 / km)
ahr:166 max:179 shoes: VJ Integrators

Day 5, Roseisle. Favourite day so far, I was loving this race, I had a few wobbles at the start but nothing major and the it all fell apart going to number 14. I decided to drop down onto the beach and just peg it along until the major track came in and the cut up into my control. Unfortunately I cut up waaaay to early (I'm blaming the volleyball almost hitting me on the head) and I promptly lost about 2-3mins trying to work out what I had done wrong. The rest of the race was fine, but the highlight was beating Colm up the run in by 3s!

Thursday Aug 1, 2013 #

Running warm up/down 16:00 [2] 1.8 km (8:53 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators

Walk up to the start

Orienteering race 1:15:44 [4] 8.0 km (9:28 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators

Day 4, Loch of Boath. Distance is a guess as I forgot my garmin but I've been averaging an extra 2k per run... It was a little cleaner, I made a few small mistakes but nothing major. I still felt slow but not as bad as I thought I'd feel after yesterday's sprint. Having had a look at tomorrow's map I'm not sure how the managed to get 290m of climb out of it esp with 2.5m contours, but I'm sure ill fing out in the morning!

Wednesday Jul 31, 2013 #

Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.2 km (12:30 / km)
shoes: Saucony Peregrines

Gentle warm up and stretching, whilst watching the pre runners

Orienteering race 18:11 [5] 3.62 km (5:01 / km)
max:186 shoes: Saucony Peregrines

Euromeeting Sprint. I was pretty happy with the race, I thought my legs were going to be more tired than they actually were. One fairly hefty mistake very near the end in the quarry section, I made a small mistake coming out of the light green which meant I was no longer pointing at the control but carried on regardless until I found myself in the gorse, not exactly where I wanted to be. I dint really appreciate the dead running from the second last to the final control and then the long run in, I was just too tired!

Tuesday Jul 30, 2013 #

Running warm up/down 21:19 [2] 2.5 km (8:32 / km)
ahr:110 max:139 shoes: Saucony Peregrines

Very gentle walk/jog up to the start

Orienteering race 1:19:20 [4] 8.89 km (8:55 / km)
ahr:165 max:180 shoes: Saucony Peregrines

Day 3, Culbin. Legs did not appreciate today, it was very rough underfoot and by the time I reached the first control I knew it was going to be a struggle physically. This meant I kept taking the path routes even though they were longer a pretty boring. The first part of the course was great but when they turned us for home it was just run the path, nip off and collect a control, back on the path, nip off for the next control and so on. I just wanted the course to be over with about 5 controls to go, but I suspect if I were fitter, it wouldn't have been a problem.

Running warm up/down 15:28 [2] 1.31 km (11:48 / km)
ahr:123 max:172 shoes: Saucony Peregrines

Walking back down to the assembly area.

Monday Jul 29, 2013 #

Running warm up/down 11:00 [2] 1.2 km (9:10 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators

Dander up to the start with some of the other lvo-ers

Orienteering race 1:11:44 [4] 8.52 km (8:25 / km)
ahr:170 max:184 shoes: VJ Integrators

Day 2, Carse of Ardersier. Much happier with how today went, I felt strong and felt like I was able to keep pushing right to the end. Navigationaly I found today much easier, I had a couple of small wobbles early on but it was mainly due to hesitation rather than being in the wrong place. From 5 onwards I was bang on to everything, which was made easier by the wonderful elephant tracks that the others had left. Had a slight wobble late on not being able to identify an indistinct path and lost about a minute, apart from that it was grand.

Sunday Jul 28, 2013 #

Event: Scottish 6 Days

Running warm up/down 12:00 [2] 1.4 km (8:34 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators

Jogging up to the start

Orienteering race (6 Day) 1:04:25 [3] 7.32 km (8:48 / km)
ahr:168 max:187 shoes: VJ Integrators

Day 1, Lossie. This started off so well, I was feeling good and navigating well through the first 5 controls, had a small wobble at 6 because I couldn't find the feature, it was supposedly on a ruin, I found a control with my number on a patch of open but there was no ruin in sight! Another wobble at 8 which was a really short leg and I probably lost 90s faffing around on the wrong hill. I got back into the flow for the next couple of controls and then had the major blowout at 12, I think I lost about 9 mins on what was a fairly straight forward leg. My plan was to angle across to the big path, run along said path to minor junction and navigate in from there. I'm not sure what actually happened but I think I dropped down too steeply and didn't hit the big path, so got to a path junction and navigated in, I reckon I was about 350m short of the control at this point. Finally figured out what went wrong and from there the rest of the course went nice and smoothly. Hopefully tomorrow will be better....

Saturday Jul 27, 2013 #

Note
(rest day)

Travelling to Scotland!!

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