Training Log Archive: jonnyq

Long travelling from Trondheim back home.Dissapointed with week as the mistakes i made were silly and i know i can do better.

Had a good run except for two big mistakes at 2 ans 9.
2.Didnt stop to make a plan and saw the good route choice halfway.Was lost until i found no.7 and then relocated and hit the control.
9.Drifted off bearing off big clearing and ended up near no.6 didnt realise for a while and then go control.
10.Route was poorly planned.
11.Got distarcted by people.

Happy as i felt i was going fast through the forest and spiking most controls.

Day 4.
Bad run.
1.Drifted off bearing and didnt relocate fast enough.3-4mins lost
2.Didnt go far enough in off track.3mins
4.Too far left didnt realise control was on the spur.1min
5.Plan was to contour and this worked but hit a hill to high above the control and wandered from place to place then hitting the control.3mins
7.Slow with my route choice.
8.No plan just ran off and had to change route in middle of leg.
9.Hit a control that i knew wasnt mine after rebounding off track.Stupid,1min

Bad day.

Sprint.
Was having a good run until number 8 and then 2 biggish mistakes on 9and 10 and then a huge one on 11,dropped 3 mins.12.Big mistake again.Route choice errors at 14 and 16.

Extremely dissapointed with the mistakes especially 11,got confused with tracks and had to go back to 10.

Very poor run.Mistakes from the start.

Took complicated route to 1 and map didnt make sense to me re-was cutting into the slope from the wrong angle.Direction was very off to 2 so had to relocate but got control alright with a bit of trouble in the circle.Dont know what i did to 3.Got into the open and then realised where i was and got the control.Long to 4 followed stream couldnt find crags,wandered for a while hit big marsh and there was control.5 Too right.6 a bit lucky guy was going in ahead of me.7 tough climb.8 big mistake,was unsure of where i was for the whole leg until i hit the open marsh and waterpits,then went in wrong direction had to come back.9 Unsure.10.Spike.11.Map was detailed and had to slow.12.Ran down the hill jumping down random crags and hills finding a lot of controls that werent mine.After ages saw my control was in green not white and got it.13.Circle problems and control descriptions.14.Ran along wrong drain.15.Unsure of which ride to run down.

Dissapointing day.

Event: WOC Tour 2010
 

Woc Tour Day 1.
Plan was to have a clean run.
1.Made a small mistake to one started drifting towards the wrong hill but corrected once i hit the marsh and spike.Maybe 30secs.
2.Drifted right on compass but saw control.
3.Took a safe but slow route out onto the open and Eoin caught me at this control.2mins
4.Spike
5.Took a straight route and spiked it right on.
6.Dont think i took the best route and stood at marsh Y junction for a long time should have used my compass.Bit of a miss in the circle.1mins+
7.Took a safe route through open marsh and pretty much spiked it.
8.Went off thinking id hit the crag,had to relocate and got the control fine down the re-entrant.1min
9.Went out of control in a funny direction and tried to figure out which drink station I was at.2mins just standing at the drink station.Realised what I was doing and came through the rough open around the hill through the boulder and marsh and spike.2mins from just standing at the drinks.
10.Started drifting right off bearing but corrected and spike.
11.Planned route was to go right,the easy route.The map was poor in this area and went down wrong ride.Had to backtrack around the stream and then went in too high.Hit a marsh relocated and took me a couple of times to hit the control.5mins+ probably.
12.Ride running no navigation needed.
13.Tough uphill took easy route though messed it up a bit.

Mistakes were bad but terrain was beautiful.