Training Log Archive: roar

Body feeling tired today.

Cycle out to Terenure to meet Ruth to look at some 1:15000 sample maps for IOC.
No I am not cheating, it is only the map sample that is available on the internet. The organisers are all over 40 and wanted a younger persons opinion on the readability.

JK Relay

Started well, with Jack M in the run out. I wished him luck, the nice guy that I am.

Died on the last loop, try as I might to hang on to William Gardner.
Put Colm out in 8th. He came back 10th. Pretty happy with 10th at JK in the Trophy. 5th next year is the plan.

To the start

JK Long

warm up to the start.

JK Middle.

This was a race that started poorly, got a little better and then went even more badly.
Missed one by not paying attention to what I had told myself to do, go slowly to number 1! Was too high and headless chickened it for a while. 1:30 dropped.
Got it back together for 2,3,4. Missed the pit at 5 and dropped maybe 15s having to come back to it. Was good then until 9. Then it started to go worse.
Ran over the hill to 10, passing out a train of women but proceeded to miss the control and hit the wrong pit, though I was right of the control so turned left, had a sneaky look and saw the women punching my control. Damn another 15-20s. Then 11 I passed out the train again, thought I was going past the crag when I was going past the control, way overshot it , turned around to see the women punching the control again. This time more like 1 min dropped. Over the top of the hill, past the train again, except for Niamh who punched 12 just in front of me and then I ran on and got 13 14 and 15 cleanly. Only to make a complete mess of 16. Never saw the hill in front of it and just had awful direction from my attackpoint and wandered around to low for about 1:30. Fluked my way onto the control. Was pretty pissed at myself at this stage and then I dropped a further 30s on 18 by having no confidence whatsoever.

Oh yeah then I lost more time on 23, like 10s by deing dumb.

So yeah about 5:40 dropped. Pretty annoyed really. Could have had a decent run. Gives me a lot of work to do tomorrow.

warm down with Colm and Kev.

Event: JK 2014
 

warm up before the sprint

JK Sprint.
Took it easy as had a tough week last week so not fully recovered. The start was nice in the gardeny thingy and then in around the buildings. Managed to end up in some olive green by hopping a fence into an area where there was no fence marked the way I got into it. Had to backtrack.
The bit in the park was boring enough for someone going slow.

Legs felt decent actually so looking forward to the rest of the weekend.

Jog with Colm M and Jack and then a little more.