Training Log Archive: Rich

Morning stretching.

WD/WU for the JK Middle. Good solid WU. Poor/non-existant WD - I proabably paid for this on day 3!

JK Middle @ Cookworthy Forest

Felt strong around the majority of this race except the climb in the last few hundred meters of the course. Was orienteering well with only a couple of small misses. 30s of mistakes max

Day 2 Course 1 - Splits

Event: JK 2010
 

WU/WD for the JK Sprint. Arrived a little later than planned for the race due to losing an hour and a half driving time at Bristol so WU was not quite as good as normal.

Solid race except running to the wrong last control losing ~25s in the process of looking a complete knob. A couple of small route chice errors particularly #13 where I missed the small path.

Run down to Market square for a photoshoot with the evening post for the city race and then back again afterwards.

Nice steady one. Home > Pit tip > Maun Valley > Res > Sutton Lawn > Oddicroft Lane > Pit Tip > Home

Long day on site and knee still sore. Had a massage tonight though.

Relax after the weekend. Knee heavily swollen.

Event: FVO Regional Event, World Ranking Event & Scottish O League 1
 

The Trossachs WRE classic Race

Really enjoyed this race until I realised at download I'd misspunched. Managed to misspunch on 156 (20) punching 155 instead which was in another re-entrant ~50m north, I saw 156.

Fairly happy with my physical shape around this coarse as I was a little worried how I'd cope with the climb. I was orienteering mainly pretty well though cumulative time was ended up quite substantial. Drugged up on ibuprofen to take the pain away from my knee.

No 2 - I was really happy with my execuation on this and had managed to plan well ahead on the coarse while running it. I hit my AP (small marsh) and then the map going into the control was complete bollocks. Thought back where I had come and was convinced I was in the right place, climbed the spur and back down and then up again. In the end I dropped down and came in from a different AP and found the control. The map was very poor though in this area which whole extra unmapped ridge. (Lost 3mins)

3 - Didn't read description and thought it was on the crag. (20s)

6 - Didn't quite stick to my plan and climbed more than necessary as a result (30s).

11 - didn't check my route and compass enough up the hill and ended up drifting left and far too far up the hill (1min).

16 - Lost concentration and my direction going into the green and ended up eventually having to come back out and relocate (2mins).

21 - Stopped to early - saw a sign by the road which confused me. (30s)

22 - Hadn't planned ahead from this point and started going straight after ~20-30s I realised the round route and ran back. Should have just gone straight in hindsight. (1min)

25 - Climbed too high and had to drop back down around the cliff face and into the control (30s)

There were also a few points where I got stuck at the top of crags and couln't get down (particularly on 10).

Better WU today and spent time relaximng and focussing which worked really well.