Training Log Archive: jgreen

nice to actually run for a change instead of stumbling through the undergrowth and then relocating.
along the shoreline in Tampere. probably went a bit fast for a recovery run - but it was very flat - total climb 35m.
tomorrow will be a longer slower run.

watch messed up on me so not sure about the details.
was the last session of the training camp in the forest. Went well and not so well. 2 controls i kept Nick waiting a long time. The others were ok. At least the last control went well. WOC is going to be seriously tough this year navigation wise. it is easy to really mess up and spend 20 minutes relocating... the long is definitely not going to happen for me.

tough session - one control really gave us a hard time.
finished really well though. will put a map here one day.
feeling like an orienteer, but these forests are something else.

tough session - cold with snow sill on the ground and no controls in the forest. Am going to sleep well tonight. again - one day i will put the map here of where we went. got to get a pic of the map first to put the tracks onto.

The best day orienteering ever. in teh snow in 5 degrees - can you believe it is 1st June in France!!!
Pity nick didn't want to go out so I couldn't spend too long in the forest while he waited int eh car. I just did the 6 closest controls for the training day. They are going to leave the contols out for tomorrow so we can go back there - so two sessions planned for tomorrow then.
I am getting much better - choosing the difficult lines to get to the controls - but still battling with the detail in the circle. The visibility is so low that getting to the circle doesn't imply finding the control.
really fun day out. I almost hope there is still snow on teh ground tomorrow.
pics and video on the blog later this evening.

very wet day out.
check out the blog for detail - http://rsaorienteers.blogspot.com/
was a long jog to the start - about 30 mins - so we didnt actually go to the start.
Nick and I started together - went to 1 together then went in different directions to 2. Nick says he saw me but i never saw him again. I took the north road and Nick went straight to 3 then we bumped into each other ont eh way to 4 and decided to change the order of running.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VQhlP463dHc/TeVCMOvBBzI/...
we went 1,2,3,4,9,8,7,6,5,10,11 then back to the car.
9 was more or less done together then i took a wrong route to 8 but met nick again at 7. he went high and i went low along the faster path. The rest was together but not. different route choices but ending at the controls at similar times. I suspect he was waiting for me at times.
A much better day out than yesterday - I now feel more like an orienteer and it confirms the need to do a training camp pre WOC - especially this year. All the contours don't freak me out any more, the green sections still do however. I am contemplating a loupe (that is a magnifying glass for you plebs). Especially since Thierry said he uses one in his blog post earlier this week. That way i can actually count re entrants and see the difference between a depression and hill on the map.

hot day out -
v difficult terrain - event though it was where yesterdays race was and 3 of the controls i had yesterday in the race. The map was not 1:10 000 and badly laser printed whereas yesterday it was litho and 1:15 000. I could read yesterdays map easier than today.
I still seriously battled to find them. I think that if there hadn't been tracks in the forest i would not have actually gotten back to them.
after finding 3 controls i tried 2 more and didn't find either of them. then i headed back to the car so that we could go and buy food for supper etc..
not a great day orienteering - in fact i think i can confidently say that it was my worst orienteering experience EVER.

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long day out - especially after yesterdays race and no breakfast.
nothing was open yesterday so we couldn't buy anything for breakfast this morning - we did get some cake at the registration center before the event. but after the water point - the only one, at 90 minutes i lost energy and interest. just persevered through.

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route to one was too conservative-
to 2 i was to uncertain and went round only after climbing too far.
3 was ok - 4 i veered in the forest and took a long detour to correct
5 was the first long leg and there was a lot of additional felled trees in the forest that both obscured the marked tracks and made running VERY hard.
couldnt relocate on the road and went up and down a couple times before going over the road exactly where i had come in - in the correct place. veered left however and had to relocate on the clearing.
6 i overran a little
7 and 8 were a bit lucky - 9 and 10 were hard running. i tried to get water form the medics -got a sip - before running around the newly felled area - that had now expanded to cover about 4 times the area. 13 went off without mention. then i had another brain fart. decided to go left, then changed my mind and went right - added an extra couple hundred meters to the course for myself...
got some (lots) of water on the way to the start of the butterfly, the butterfly gave me some trouble. 16 and 17 were fine, then 18 was a dodgy placement with fellings and some new tracks in the forest. then going back to 19 i lost the plot a bit.
20 was a safe route choice but not smart, as was 21 - 22 was a run around - actually a walk around.
then i sat down on the path for a bit of a rest on the way up the hill to 24.
24,25,26 went without incident - and not much speed. then 27 i went too far left and contoured back to the cliff. 28 was a slog up the hill.
I walked a lot of the long leg to 29. and got pulled by a bus coming past me - pulled wrong - i had intended to go further down (right) the path before cutting across - the bus kept me straight - and climbing.
then it was the end... at last.

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