Training Log Archive: Oranj

Event: BKO Concorde Chase
 

BKO 'Concorde chase' at Barossa. Brown, 9.7km, 28c. Slightly intimidated to be first off the start. Completely foxed myself on the run to #3 - seemed to take a wrong bearing out of #2 - wanted to head N, but ended up running E :-( and ended up on a path I wasn't expecting to see. Took nearly 15 min to relocate by which time I realised it was game over. (When I eventually got there #3 seemed to be in the wrong place, although that's largely incidental!). Just trundled around the rest of it taking fairly safe routes which mostly went OK, but had trouble finding #14 on a hillside covered in bracken and ran straight past #25 (in a drainage ditch) before doubling back to find it. Annoyed with myself, I seem to find the thumb compass a hindrance on wet days when the map is a bugger to hold/fold and wonder if I'd be better off with a fancy wrist compass? At least my new EMIT card, picked up today, is nice and quick to register at a control.

Event: TVOC Saturday Series Oxford University Parks
 

TVOC Saturday Series. Lt Green course, 4.1km, 19c. 9th/46 (fastest 24:21). Dither to #1 (30sec), wrong side of a fence to #5 (10sec) and spent 2:35 finding #12 because it had been put in the wrong place, grr (the course org. didn't agree with me, but at least the next two runners finishing did)

C • Speedy! 2

TVOC Saturday Series 2nd run/orange course, 3.3km, 17c. 2nd/34 (fastest 16:42). As fast as I could manage on tired legs (given that I'm racing tomorrow). Found the misplaced control OK this time ;) it was #8 on this course. A bit of a dither to #9, and could maybe have taken a shorter route to #13