Training Log Archive: Rhesus

I'm having a day off. Racing again at weekend, then 10Mila weekend after!! Fucking exciting!!

JK Relays. Did 1st leg for LOC, with Louise Dunn and Noah Howlett. Louise was the mother of Oxford's 2nd leg runner, so I was desperate to beat Jamie so I could give their lad the dubious honour of overtaking his mum on the JK Trophy. Sadly, Jamie was first back!

Simple enough write up, Steady start, easy first 3, then moved through the pack and got the short gaffle on 4. Took the lead at 7 as Carcas took Cherry and Jamie off right. Was caught quickly as hardly moving well! Drove the train to 9 and motored through to the spectato where it was starting to hurt a bit but well in touch.

Eyed up going direct as did Cherry on 16 but went after Jamie and Carcas round the path instead. Short gaffle for Jamie, reunite at 17 with Shminty joining us. Map not fitting my idea of the ground here much!

Aaaan finally, the mistake. No compass, just chasing. Look at map properly about halfway on the leg, quickly decide I need to head to the green and it's easy. The green I head to is not the green next to the control. Minute gone, and so are those 4.

Lose 20 seconds on the next one and die physically on the last few easy ones. Some EUOC lads and Ben Mitchell toast me so I roll in 9th (8th as Cherry MPd).

For fucks sake! Haha, so close to running a good first leg for once!

Team came 25th.

http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#70&route=80

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2017/JK2017/Da...

Yog to start with Willy and Jamie.

JK Long.

In hindsight, I had no real plan going into this. Just took it as it came really. Concerns about my leg were there, it survived, nothing more.

First 6 were all steady, compass good, caught Jack Wood at 4. Went straight on 7, the forest was not white. Avoided the road and clean to 10. Executed leg 11 well but lost a lot of time by going straight it seems. And then totally fucked the easiest leg on the course, nearly 2 mins on 12 - argh! Ended up in the OOB...

Had to stop and tie my lace on the way to 14, and was a bit hesitant with the map passing 3. Clean through to the road crossing now. Gel went in.

Aaaaan meltdown. Didn't see the start triangle ont he new map, assumed we were at control 20 despite alarm bells ringing, and headed straight into a jungle on rhododendron. Whilst being consumed by this arboreal hellhole, I questioned my life choices and also whyt he compass was not pointing the way I expected. The penny dropped, and I consulted the map more closely. You arse.

2 mins blown there needlessly, and then didn't trust myself heading to 22, overshooting, failing to read the map and finally Jamie caught me.

Angry now, took the lead through to spectator, steady enough on the controls. Jamie killed me over the fields, building a gap going into 30.

Took my own route now, this was the last interesting leg really. Jamie was off left about halfway, then he vanished. I pushed on as best as I could muster but knew I was ahead so tried to stay clean and claw back some time. Splits were pretty good until I inexplicably lost a minute on 38 - tiredness?

V tired at the end, the relentless fast running did me good and proper. Horses for courses I guess.

Too much time lost on avoidable errors - well capable of a top 10 run, but need to start cutting out the silly mistakes. I've decided to hire SI-Air at the British so I can't keep using that excuse for lost positions.

http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#69&course=1&r...

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

Traffic was shite so had to jump straight out the van and run to the start after finding my bib. Just enough time for a Forrest Gump and then it was race time! Top prep as per.

JK Middle! First time O-ing south of the Midlands since ???

Early start due to zero World Ranking. Can't complain, not done any Oing!
Was determined to get off to a decent start this JK, so was focused in the pen. Quite a decent run, with hesitations coming into 2, rushing out of 2,
Bad compass on 6, minor error and meerkatting on 7, confusion on the mapping at 10 when stood right next to it (veg boundary!? Hill!? Bollocks!) then bad direction downhill to 14. Getting scrappy as tiring on the fast stuff so tried to tighten up. Improved from here, though unnecessary contour climb on 20 could've saved time.

Flagging a bit physically but put down a decent time and finished 15th which was alright. Might have to get an SI Air now as it cost me some places I reckon!! Easy to see where I need to improve.

Overall, kept some good habits from Stockholm camp, compass was used a lot more than usual and some good legs. Positive.

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

http://www.jk.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#67&course=1&r...

Event: JK 2017 - Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering
 

Took full day off travelling to and watching jk. Achilles iffy.

Didn't do the sprint race because fuck sprint orienteering.

First willow warbler yesterday.

Chiffchaffs about too, heard first in Ireland. First wheatear and housemartins in Ireland too.

Saw a lesser spotted woodpecker in Farsta. Sweden wins.

Jogged out dropping off new baby cards etc. Calf horrible.

Easy trot over walla with MMB and young Ted. R calf still a mess