Training Log Archive: FRBlackSheep

Event: Park Race 11: Morden Hall Park
 

Not a great race it turns out as seem to have been beaten by everyone - including getting 'chicked' by Mhairi again! Usually not that bothered as its cause I've made a monumental screw up, but tonight wasn't that bad -s o just got beaten soundly.... Lost approx 30secs at the start as the direction you needed to run inw as behind you and took me a while to get it together, and then missed a bridge option ont he butterfly loop which was worth approx 45 secs and exited poorly from 18.

So although felt ok - many people excecuted the race much better than I did.

Roll on the weekends challenges

Update after results published - 10th so not too bad, 17 seconds down on m, reckon the best I could have managed at the speed I was going at would be 3.10 faster and so 25.36 - top 3..... just too many errors

Long - Splits

Rest day - must get hydrated

From work to Ravenscourt Park for training

Control flow training, pretty good early on, but skill level dropped as tiredness went up - can't focus for long enough

Good session and enthusiasm from paul - shame about the ''cold'' he's got... big girl

C • Keeps focused 1

From Ravenscourt to home

Nice cruise in this morning - feeling pretty good actually, the rest on sunday must ahve doen some good after all.

Cruise tomeeting

Home from committee

Well got as far as control 1 on todays FROLIC event before I decided I couldn't be bothered and sacked it - so unintentional rest day

Cracking day but a bit longer than I'd plannedon really.

Ended up running from the station to the start at Puttenham as it came in late, just scraped the start, overtaking Dmitry coming down the Road as he finished leg 1.

So basicaly rolled through the start and took the lead, wondering when I'd get overhauled, pushed it from the start trying to build a lead, nav was doen on memory and the signs, a few hesitations and a wrong parrallel path mean that I thought that the second guy that was behind me had got passed me and so I tried to catch him and pushed on harder - so he hadn't got passed me after all and so I spent myself trying to catch a phantom. Came in first though - Job done!

Or it would ahve been if Phil's car hadn't been clamped and so meaning he missed the handover, as the other teams disappeared into the distance, a quick decision was made for me to roll over into this leg too as the club would have been disqualified without a runner - kept catching glimpses of the others as we went on but made a mistake at a junction and lost 4 min sorting this out, struggled on this leg physically, but apparently I made up a min or so on the 2nd half and came in around 7min down.

In pieces - SLOW won by a margin of around 2min

C • Balls 8