Training Log Archive: MiloIn the 7 days ending Apr 28, 2007:
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Saturday Apr 28, 2007 #
Walking (Taping Controls) 2:03:43 [2] 4.0 km (30:56 / km)
shoes: Silva rubber stops
Taping furtherest control sites with RH.
Wednesday Apr 25, 2007 #
Walking (Control Setting) 1:00:00 [2] 3.5 km (17:09 / km)
shoes: Silva rubber stops
Taping Control Sites at Livelys.
Run easy courses to test runnability and ease of navigation.
ITB is playing up so got the chainsaw & the axe out and cut some wood instead..much better exercise.
Run easy courses to test runnability and ease of navigation.
ITB is playing up so got the chainsaw & the axe out and cut some wood instead..much better exercise.
Monday Apr 23, 2007 #
Note
Found a name for my dodgy knee. ITBS. Yea.. my first ever syndrome!
Sunday Apr 22, 2007 #
Orienteering race 2:23:04 [3] 9.0 mi (15:54 / mi) +180m 14:58 / mi
shoes: Silva SG Norway
Bothwell - First time on map, lived up to Paul P's descriptions.
Not good from the off. Decided to use the compass which I don't normally carry with me to 1. Spent 2 mins trying to make the track I found ' fit' the map. turned around and there was the control between two 'knolls'..
2. Decided to go for a real long 'run', nearly off the map on the way to two. Crossed the fence, had a brain fade and convinced myself that the fence was not on the map as it was on the edge of the logging area. Found the 'new' track and proceeded to run to the junction past the 5-6 straight line stil loking for a fence...duh.
Had to turn around and slog back up the hill to find two, in the gully where it was supposed tp be.
3. Soon realised that off-track running was probably not a good option, so stuck to the tracks until 7, feeling pretty good with running, knee still buggered from Easter. Sandstone cliffs made a nice change from the granite boulders I've been staring at the last couple of weekends.
8. Was for me 'the bitch leg' as others have called it. Went right to avoid teh thick green in the steep gully as you do. Slogged across a paddock full of stones and up across the fence to the marsh. Proceeded to go over the hill convincing myself that teh 'thicket' I'd seen was the first one on th emap and kept looking for the second...not good..went back to the first thicket..there it is!
No porblems coming home..used the compass.
All in all good training for compass work, but a real slog and made some stupid errors. I think I will not take pain killers next time before an event..however that means I probably won't be able to run.
A 430 km round trip for a slog through bracken fern with mainy hidden fallen logs..and did anyone see those big holes in theground that looked like they were going to swallow you up?
Not good from the off. Decided to use the compass which I don't normally carry with me to 1. Spent 2 mins trying to make the track I found ' fit' the map. turned around and there was the control between two 'knolls'..
2. Decided to go for a real long 'run', nearly off the map on the way to two. Crossed the fence, had a brain fade and convinced myself that the fence was not on the map as it was on the edge of the logging area. Found the 'new' track and proceeded to run to the junction past the 5-6 straight line stil loking for a fence...duh.
Had to turn around and slog back up the hill to find two, in the gully where it was supposed tp be.
3. Soon realised that off-track running was probably not a good option, so stuck to the tracks until 7, feeling pretty good with running, knee still buggered from Easter. Sandstone cliffs made a nice change from the granite boulders I've been staring at the last couple of weekends.
8. Was for me 'the bitch leg' as others have called it. Went right to avoid teh thick green in the steep gully as you do. Slogged across a paddock full of stones and up across the fence to the marsh. Proceeded to go over the hill convincing myself that teh 'thicket' I'd seen was the first one on th emap and kept looking for the second...not good..went back to the first thicket..there it is!
No porblems coming home..used the compass.
All in all good training for compass work, but a real slog and made some stupid errors. I think I will not take pain killers next time before an event..however that means I probably won't be able to run.
A 430 km round trip for a slog through bracken fern with mainy hidden fallen logs..and did anyone see those big holes in theground that looked like they were going to swallow you up?