Training Log Archive: Bradders

Wet, muddy and cold
Take 10s off for horses, walkers and gates

http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/gb/rotherham/8011256...

- Splits

Lots of school stuff so no club night or training

20s ( =( ) at each place x2 laps 5s to get to each place and 1 lap walking after each circuit lap.

Was gonna go running today on fartleck to improve my speed but it got dark before I was ready to go, suppose I better get used to it and take my head torch when I go with a map but I didn't go this time

much needed rest day, i need to re-work-out my training cus i was going to go training with a map in tankersly but it is probably gonna get embargoed soon =(

Im feeling ill and Ive only been back to school 1 day!!?

Event: November classic 09
 

I wasn't 'with the map' today if you get my meaning. I think some of that was due to having an appalling start, first it was raining horizontal so that didn't help matters, 2nd it was a similar map to the last november classic made of a nasty material that sticks to itself and therefore is hard to fold and especially unfold (! i lost about 40s trying to do this on one control because I couldn't carry on until I had), third the 1st control gave you an immediate hard route choice which I over complicated and ended up getting wrong (this may have been because I had to remove my shoe to take out a thorn which must have stayed in my sock =( =(. I lost about 3 minutes on this leg which set the trend for the rest of the course....
leg 3 I kept thinking that I had gone wrong through the whole leg which I hadn't..
leg 5 Tom Louth had already caught me up 5 minutes and he was going faster than me so I tried to keep up but he then made a mistake which I didn't but it still cost me 20s...
leg 7 I went into the wood from a path thinking I was entering somewhere else causing a parallel error, 1min 40s....
leg 14 after swimming across a stream I lost all connection with the map and planning similar to number 1 costing, 2min and 30s
leg 15 I was too early then too low then too far on three streams and when I found it it was behind a fallen tree, 2 min

Not good 11+minutes of mistakes

I need to improve - positive thinking, connection with the map, planning routes, compassing!!! but I dont get how to do the 1st 2.... ill talk it through with GG on saturday...

Walk to the clothes dump, run round warming up and run back to the assembly with tom

Event: Oxford City Race
 

I came 2nd to Peter Bray by 50s and beat jack by 4s which was good it was very fast and I made perhaps 3 mistakes, 2 going on the main street which was crowded on 2 legs and the 3rd on 11 where i went on an overpass when the control was underneath. Overall 25s lost at the MOST which is good =)
http://www.ouoc.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti.c...