Training Log Archive: Trevail

Glen O Dee: Blue course. Nice course, which didn't seem as familiar as Glen O Dee is really - so good job Jon! I had a couple of tweaks to my ankle but kept going and the discomfort went away. Just need to get on with it! Quite a few trees down. I felt I was moving through the woods quite well so was a bit surprised to be overtaken towards the end by AM, AC and Meg. Well done to them.

Run around familiar route in Scolty - not going too high due to the wind and weather. A bit of sleight while I was out, but the snow held off until after I finished. I tried to make it a 'tempo' run.

A nice course, apart from the boulderfield around control 9!. That slope at Bogendreip can be quite tricky during the day, let alone at night, so happy to pretty much stay in touch with the map most of the time. Took it fairly steadily and since there were several orienteers around me, tried to take distinctly different routes - going off the direct line to pick up strong attack points & hence clocked up 4.67km on a 3.5km course. Nevertheless, I kept meeting up with them at the controls so I didn't manage to gain much time. Initially didn't go far enough when looking for 2 and 5 and on the way to 6 I planned to aim-off to the gully to the south of the control, but came out slightly to the east of the control so lost a bit of time there.

6 x 2 mins + 4 x 1min 1 min between intervals apart from end of 2 min group when 2 mins rest. Felt pretty good this evening, and able to push the leading group a little closer than in the recent past. Probably a result of all the running over Xmas!