Training Log Archive: SarahD

MOR event at Darnaway. Travelled up with Dan and family, as Esther and Jon were both away. Ran the brown course. Felt I was running pretty well in the terrain and well in control of the navigation - picking up the detail and spiking controls nicely. Wed nights must be paying off.
Slow to no 1 (I blame Eddie for distracting me before the start) and lost ~30s picking up the path through the green to 2. Worst mistake was at no 8, where I veered offline and landed on the wrong hill. Probably only lost ~3 minutes in total. Generally feeling very happy about it.

Shorter warm-up than I would prefer. No time for warm-down - on childcare duty.

Map run on Shooting Greens to check out what state the forest is in. Remarkably pleasant (significantly nicer then Scolty ;-)) and the map is pretty up to date - definitely worth using for spring training. Zig-zagged down through the area. Wasn't going very fast as I was having difficulties interpreting all the rock detail - good complex stuff.

Decided to do some reps to get me back up to the car park in Shooting Greens, rather than just plodding. 6 x 1' got me up to the car park, but I was feeling pretty good, so turned left up the hill and did another 4 x 1'. Turned the run into a decent quality session.

Steady run with Jon from Dinnet. Over towards Loch Davan, out to the NW corner of the Muir, up the track towards Cambus, L down to the Vat Burn, then back round the S side of Loch Kinord. Minging day - didn't seem too bad at the start but very wet and cold by the finish. Legs felt OK on the flat but nothing in them on the hills. Spent most of the run trailing several m behind Jon who seemed to be cruising effortlessly along.

Newsflash - I have just retired 2 of my hellys after 20 years of faithful service. Let's hope the next generation are as long-serving.

Rest Day
My battered body needs some time to recover.

DNC Scolty. Quite simply the most unpleasant orienteering course I've had the misfortune to do in a long long time (ever?). Combination of impenetrable green (mapped as semi-open), wind-blow, rough open hillside and an uphill course (or at least it felt like it). Got completely stuck in the green after no 1. Left calf was cramping from the effort by the time I got to no 2. Had to double back at one stage on 4-5 to get round the windblow. etc.
Navigation was actually pretty good - not that I spent much time focusing on it.

Jog to start. As Jon said the most pleasant part of the evening...

Intervals on the road at Hazlehead. 10 x 500m off 3'. Legs felt tired, but times were better than they have been for a while. Splits were 1:56, 2:02, 1:53, 2:04, 1:58, 2:11, 1:56, 2:06, 1:56, 2:09

To and from Hazlehead

Good session

Rest day.
Legs tired. Went for a lovely walk in Cambus with Jon and Ewan in the afternoon. Beautiful day.