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Sunday Aug 9, 2009 #
Note
(rest day)
Sore throat and run down at start of 6-day, survived without getting ill but not 100% better either, happy to take another rest day before getting back to the marathon training.
Saturday Aug 8, 2009 #
Orienteering race 1:01:17 [5] 7.7 km (7:58 / km) +275m 6:45 / km
shoes: VJ Falcon
Day 6, Loch Ordie, 13th place. Best position of the week - running less well than other days but managed to find the flags better today.
Tired legs before the start, and knew it was tough and heathery, so just took it steady. Lost time one re-entrant to the left at #5 and then confused at #12 so stopped short in vaguer unmarked re-entrant. Then at #13 I made a larger error and was looking too high, sorted it out and got the flag just before Dave P (caught me 4 mins).
Led Dave up the hill but I missed #15 slightly and he passed me, couldn't catch him through the next section (run to crossing point and short control pick), and then definitely couldn't catch him on the final downhill run to the finish, let him get away and had to do my own navigation through the bracken!
Split positions
5 in top 10
15 11th-20th
3 21st-30th
2 31st-40th
Winner Jan Donner 51:58
Tired legs before the start, and knew it was tough and heathery, so just took it steady. Lost time one re-entrant to the left at #5 and then confused at #12 so stopped short in vaguer unmarked re-entrant. Then at #13 I made a larger error and was looking too high, sorted it out and got the flag just before Dave P (caught me 4 mins).
Led Dave up the hill but I missed #15 slightly and he passed me, couldn't catch him through the next section (run to crossing point and short control pick), and then definitely couldn't catch him on the final downhill run to the finish, let him get away and had to do my own navigation through the bracken!
Split positions
5 in top 10
15 11th-20th
3 21st-30th
2 31st-40th
Winner Jan Donner 51:58
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Decent climb to the start to warm up, legs feeling pretty heavy after pushing it yesterday.
Completed the set of failing to warm down afterwards.
Completed the set of failing to warm down afterwards.
Friday Aug 7, 2009 #
Orienteering race 1:01:12 [5] 9.0 km (6:48 / km) +145m 6:18 / km
shoes: new Inov8 Roclite
Day 5, Barry Buddon, roasting hot day, 15th place. Still improving!
Late start, lots of tracks, should have been set up for a high finish. Ran pretty well and pretty much flat out but spoilt it all by wastefully letting 2.5mins go at #17 by mis-relocating. A few wobbles apart from that but fairly well contained except a bad route plus miss at #6 cost over a minute, and miss at #14 was 45secs.
Split positions
12 in top 10
5 11-20
5 21-30
1 31-40
1 41-50
1 51-60
0 61-70
1 71-80
Winner James Logue 50:40 (won by over 3 mins!)
Late start, lots of tracks, should have been set up for a high finish. Ran pretty well and pretty much flat out but spoilt it all by wastefully letting 2.5mins go at #17 by mis-relocating. A few wobbles apart from that but fairly well contained except a bad route plus miss at #6 cost over a minute, and miss at #14 was 45secs.
Split positions
12 in top 10
5 11-20
5 21-30
1 31-40
1 41-50
1 51-60
0 61-70
1 71-80
Winner James Logue 50:40 (won by over 3 mins!)
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2]
shoes: new Inov8 Roclite
hot day and short distance to start = reduced warm up. No warm down any day so far...
Thursday Aug 6, 2009 #
Orienteering race 1:16:39 [5] 9.4 km (8:09 / km) +75m 7:50 / km
shoes: new Inov8 Roclite
Day 4, Tentsmuir. 21st place.
Getting better slowly but still not too great. Scrappy off the start through the first three, then lost over a minute at #7 when I used unmapped path bend to attack instead of reading the contours. Tried to run too hard after that and so with total inevitability missed the first one in green.....and missed so badly I had to come right out to relocate, 4 mins lost.
Good after that and picking up places all the way but results pretty close packed so the 4 mins error v costly.
Split positions
4 in top 10
13 11th-20th
7 21-30
1 31-40
3 41-50
1 51-60
1 61-70
1 71-80
Winner Jan Donner 60:41
Getting better slowly but still not too great. Scrappy off the start through the first three, then lost over a minute at #7 when I used unmapped path bend to attack instead of reading the contours. Tried to run too hard after that and so with total inevitability missed the first one in green.....and missed so badly I had to come right out to relocate, 4 mins lost.
Good after that and picking up places all the way but results pretty close packed so the 4 mins error v costly.
Split positions
4 in top 10
13 11th-20th
7 21-30
1 31-40
3 41-50
1 51-60
1 61-70
1 71-80
Winner Jan Donner 60:41
Running warm up/down 25:00 [3]
shoes: new Inov8 Roclite
Run to start with Fraser (3.7km) plus short extra warm up there.
Wednesday Aug 5, 2009 #
Note
(rest day)
Played some croquet on the lawns and sipped some Pimms. The sun shone.
Tuesday Aug 4, 2009 #
Orienteering race 1:12:06 [5] 6.9 km (10:27 / km) +360m 8:17 / km
shoes: VJ Falcon
Day 3, Tullochroisk, in the pouring rain.
Ran well today. Unfortunately that was only in the open section after I had thrown away a whole stack of time (maybe 8 or 9 mins) in the first 5 controls through the woodland. Got caught by Ben Hartman at #7 but managed to stay in front and sneak away in the later stages.
Split positions
2 in top 10
6 11th-20th
4 21-30
4 31-40
0 41-50
1 51-60
2 61-70
Winner Ali Cory-Wright 54:25
Ran well today. Unfortunately that was only in the open section after I had thrown away a whole stack of time (maybe 8 or 9 mins) in the first 5 controls through the woodland. Got caught by Ben Hartman at #7 but managed to stay in front and sneak away in the later stages.
Split positions
2 in top 10
6 11th-20th
4 21-30
4 31-40
0 41-50
1 51-60
2 61-70
Winner Ali Cory-Wright 54:25
Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Monday Aug 3, 2009 #
Orienteering race 1:12:30 [5] 7.6 km (9:32 / km) +290m 8:01 / km
shoes: VJ Falcon
Day 2, Kinnoull. 26th place.
Frustrating race today. Lost a little time early at #3 and #4 but pushing hard after that and going well, then got very confused by the extra path at dodgy #15 and lost 3mins. Caught by Simon P just after and we confused each other on the 45sec leg to #19 and took over 4mins instead. Got away but Simon caught me again enroute to #21 and I led us a merry dance right round the wrong hill by trying to run far too fast, 2.5mins more lost.
Split positions
5 in top 10
8 11th-20th
6 21st-30th
1 31st-40th
0 41-50
2 51-60
0 61-70
2 71-80
Winner James Logue 56:44
Frustrating race today. Lost a little time early at #3 and #4 but pushing hard after that and going well, then got very confused by the extra path at dodgy #15 and lost 3mins. Caught by Simon P just after and we confused each other on the 45sec leg to #19 and took over 4mins instead. Got away but Simon caught me again enroute to #21 and I led us a merry dance right round the wrong hill by trying to run far too fast, 2.5mins more lost.
Split positions
5 in top 10
8 11th-20th
6 21st-30th
1 31st-40th
0 41-50
2 51-60
0 61-70
2 71-80
Winner James Logue 56:44
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Sunday Aug 2, 2009 #
Event: Scottish Six Days Tay 2009
Orienteering race 1:19:46 [4] 6.3 km (12:40 / km) +320m 10:06 / km
shoes: VJ Falcon
Day 1, Dalrulzion, 6.3km, 35th place.
Rubbish today, missed #1 by a couple of mins and then scrappy, missed #9 quite badly and then binned 5 mins at #11 where it was obvious care was needed. Mostly steady thereafter but not pushing.
Splits
0 in top 10
5 11-20
5 21-30
8 31-40
2 41-50
0 51-60
2 61-70
2 71-80
Rubbish today, missed #1 by a couple of mins and then scrappy, missed #9 quite badly and then binned 5 mins at #11 where it was obvious care was needed. Mostly steady thereafter but not pushing.
Splits
0 in top 10
5 11-20
5 21-30
8 31-40
2 41-50
0 51-60
2 61-70
2 71-80
Running warm up/down 25:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Falcon
Saturday Aug 1, 2009 #
Note
(rest day)
Travelled up to accommodation, didn't do much else. Mansion is fab, great place to spend a week.