Training Log Archive: GolferIn the 7 days ending Jul 5, 2008:
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Saturday Jul 5, 2008 #
Orienteering race 1:14:14 [5] **** 7.5 km (9:54 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus 9
WMOC Long distance B Final at Pedragoa. A tough day at the office today. This area was definitely more technical than the qualifying area and unfortunately it brought me unstuck a couple of times.
Started well then a small error on 4 followed by a 3 minute error at 6. Similar mistake at 11 but 14 really anoyed me: I went round a big dune onto a road and was looking for a small track but couldnt find it. Worked out I had gone too far and turned around only to find a organisers van parked across the track I was looking for - not pleased. Steady for the rest with a small error on 16 but finished well down. Calculated about 8 minutes of errors without which would have put me in top 15 but was not to be :-)
Started well then a small error on 4 followed by a 3 minute error at 6. Similar mistake at 11 but 14 really anoyed me: I went round a big dune onto a road and was looking for a small track but couldnt find it. Worked out I had gone too far and turned around only to find a organisers van parked across the track I was looking for - not pleased. Steady for the rest with a small error on 16 but finished well down. Calculated about 8 minutes of errors without which would have put me in top 15 but was not to be :-)
Thursday Jul 3, 2008 #
Orienteering race 53:26 [5] **** 7.2 km (7:25 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Nimbus 8
WMOC Long Qualifier #2 at Pataias. A much better effort today and dragged myself up quite a few places but not enough for the A Final as lost too much time yesterday. Navigation was generally clean with a minute or two of errors overall. Found I was able to run much faster in the sand today - maybe I am learning the technique.
Wednesday Jul 2, 2008 #
Orienteering race 1:08:08 [5] **** 7.2 km (9:28 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus 9
WMOC Long Qualifier #1 at Pataias. Bad start missing #1 by 2 minutes then ran pretty steadily thru to 8. Long leg to 9 almost brought me totally unstuck when I lost map contact on a track. Stopped still for a good 2-3 minutes to try and relocate, which I did successfully. A couple of other small errors meant I was well and truly down the order.
Tuesday Jul 1, 2008 #
Orienteering 35:00 [3] ****
shoes: UK Gear PT03 trail
Model event at Burinhosa. Again walked a couple with Deb then ran a course. Paid careful attention to the vegetation boundaries and green mapping this time. Navigation generally pretty good.
Sunday Jun 29, 2008 #
Orienteering race 16:02 [5] * 2.1 km (7:38 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Nimbus 8
WMOC Sprint Qualifier in Leiria. A great map and course through the old town. I read it really well and was very happy with my time which placed me in equal 20th and thus achieved my first goal by qualifying for the A Final.
Orienteering race 21:43 [5] * 2.3 km (9:27 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus 9
WMOC Sprint A Final in Praia de Veira. Started well in the town section but then lost 2 minutes on the first forest control. Sand running very difficult but managed to get the remaining forest controls OK except 12 where I lost about 30 secs. Back into the town and next 2 OK but disaster at 17 with a 3 minute error on a 25 sec leg! Finished OK but well down the list.