Training Log Archive: Thraws

Roughly 14km walk from Graffham round Charlton Forest with 1988 JK map to see what use it would be with planning for level B in May. (Plus a bit of coaching.) Most of the brown features are unchanged and the vegetation is, if anything, better than it was then. Out for about 3.5 hours.

Event: SOG - autumn 6 - Eartham Wood, Slindon
 

Coached an older, inexperienced, junior round the orange course for the squad training. There was the usual half hours hanging around getting cold to start with, but Tom was an enthusiastic student.

That's the third well-planned event at Eartham in a year. Enjoyed this a lot on a cold but dry morning. Never checked compass properly for 1 and lost 30 secs going to wrong flag, but was pleased with straight-route choice and accuracy for 3. Made 5 look harder than it was in my head and ran to the figure I thought must be near the control and so right past the right depression. Unfortunately the figure was Barry, 2 mins lost. Much better after that, although near 8 began to realise that a lack of confidence in my navigation was causing me to run quite a bit more slowly that I needed to. This was particularly true for the downhill legs in the second half. Mistakes and hesitation cost me about five places, but had a good run anyway.

Nearly knocked off again this morning by driver emerging from side road with windows iced and misted up.

Everything in its right place.