Training Log Archive: Thraws

Spent about 3 hours in Charlton Forest looking at control sites for blue and green courses for October regional. Probably covered about 7km. Forest very runnable but a bit same-y.

Usual SOG thing of overtaking people all the way round so often helped with finding controls. Made a bit of a mistake leaving 5 as I couldn't believe we needed to go up before descending into the Dyke so went through the gate and down then had to climb up to get past the trees. Everyone goes at the same speed walking up the climbs so tried to get a shift on when we could actually run as I knew it would make the difference. Reckon the climb was probably a bit more than 300m.

Wasn't really in the mood for this but Lu wanted to do it. I'm glad I did, though, because it was good fun and I really enjoyed myself. Felt OK after too. Started at back of A race so I wouldn't go too fast and kept up steady pace through first two laps. Think I was stronger than those around me on third and picked it up on fourth to overtake a few. I was about 10 secs down on last year, but as I wasn't too sure about even getting inside the 18 minutes cut-off I was pleased enough. Will hopefully get time down on the next two rounds which we have also now entered. An excellent high intensity work out just before the climax of the orienteering season, with southern, sprint and middle champs and JK all coming up.