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Friday Jun 28, 2013 #
Running 1:31:52 [3] 12.7 km (7:14 / km) +190m 6:44 / km
slept:4.0 weight:70.3kg shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 g
Run with Duncan and Chris S to try and cheer myself up.
Exploring bits of Stoke Bishop. Found an interesting private estate off Old Sneed Road. May have circumvented the barricades around Hiatt Baker by sneaking through one of the buildings...
Saw a very small badger in the nature reserve - never seen one in the daylight before.
Not very quick with lots of stopping, and walking most of the way up the gorge.
Didn't get home until very late - think the last time I was out later was after the Harvester last year, so sure I'll be sufficiently rested for tonight...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/334643847
Exploring bits of Stoke Bishop. Found an interesting private estate off Old Sneed Road. May have circumvented the barricades around Hiatt Baker by sneaking through one of the buildings...
Saw a very small badger in the nature reserve - never seen one in the daylight before.
Not very quick with lots of stopping, and walking most of the way up the gorge.
Didn't get home until very late - think the last time I was out later was after the Harvester last year, so sure I'll be sufficiently rested for tonight...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/334643847
Thursday Jun 27, 2013 #
Event: Summer Evening Event
Orienteering - Urban race (NGOC Urban Score) 1:01:00 [4] 12.91 km (4:44 / km) +30m 4:40 / km
slept:4.0 weight:71.2kg shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 g
NGOC urban score around Pittville Park in Cheltenham. Double sided map - 1 side 1:5000 ISOM (not ISSOM) spec, the other 1:12,500 stick diagram with bits of yellow and green.
Route S-9-10-18-19-17-28-30-21-11-12-13-20-23-22-29-27-24-26-25-2-3-4-14-16-15-8-5-6-7-F. Missed 1 (10 points) and was 1 min late.
Leaving the start was caught out by several fatal mapping errors - a dead end had been obscured by overprinted "crossing point" text, then crossable fence was uncrossable, then underpass wasn't mapped right so I didn't see it - so had lost 90s by the first control.
Soon worked out what was and wasn't mapped. 21 very dodgy as in a field that wasn't mapped as yellow when others were.
Only order of controls I would have changed would be to do 3-14-4-16, and, if map was correct from start, would have got 7 and 8 on the way out. Should then have been comfortably enough time for me to clear had I done this.
Apart from getting a pretty good 10k time (for me), the WIP Ross map going down well and John Fallows possibly being injured has been a pretty crap day.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/334138882
Route S-9-10-18-19-17-28-30-21-11-12-13-20-23-22-29-27-24-26-25-2-3-4-14-16-15-8-5-6-7-F. Missed 1 (10 points) and was 1 min late.
Leaving the start was caught out by several fatal mapping errors - a dead end had been obscured by overprinted "crossing point" text, then crossable fence was uncrossable, then underpass wasn't mapped right so I didn't see it - so had lost 90s by the first control.
Soon worked out what was and wasn't mapped. 21 very dodgy as in a field that wasn't mapped as yellow when others were.
Only order of controls I would have changed would be to do 3-14-4-16, and, if map was correct from start, would have got 7 and 8 on the way out. Should then have been comfortably enough time for me to clear had I done this.
Apart from getting a pretty good 10k time (for me), the WIP Ross map going down well and John Fallows possibly being injured has been a pretty crap day.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/334138882
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013 #
Running 22:01 [5] 5.01 km (4:24 / km) +20m 4:19 / km
slept:2.0 weight:71.5kg shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 g
From home up to Little Stoke park and then around until 5k. Wanted to do more but was pretty dead - combination of lack of sleep/food/drink/warm up, bit too much heat and a bit of a cold from the weekend. Still, 22 mins wasn't too bad...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/333202139
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/333202139
Running warm up/down 22:00 [3] 3.0 km (7:20 / km) +30m 6:59 / km
shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 g
Very slow jog back. Left knee feels like it needs some stretching.
Sunday Jun 23, 2013 #
Event: Welsh League Event 2013
Event: SBOC 2x2 Relays
Orienteering race (Broughton Burrows) 1:12:58 [4] 9.18 km (7:57 / km) +100m 7:32 / km
slept:2.5 weight:71.8kg shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
7.2km brown course.
I like sand dunes but can't say I enjoyed this. Finished so frustrated with my run that I thought it best not to talk about it.
Overshot 1 - getting used to scale and contours +1 min. Ok to 2 and caught Joe up by here but didn't translate contours at all well. Purposely slowed down so that Joe wouldn't feel any pressure from me being just behind. Saw him on and off in the distance until he was half way to 7.
3-4-5 all clean, read contours well. Then 6 - got through the bushes fine then the bearing went off a bit - should have gone where Joe went - lost 2 mins or so working from the big depression by the fence to the east. 7 - again bearing went slightly out after the bushes. Lost 2-3 mins relocating and couldn't match the contours at all - work with distances from the fence.
8 - 1 min lost as my attackpoint did not exist on the ground. Was the easiest control on the course too, lost 1 min due to poor route choice too. 9 and 10 both clean.
11 a complete disaster. Seemed to have caught Joe again but got pretty much into the control circle and then couldn't line up the contours at all. Found control 229 where I was expecting to find my own. In the end had to find control 12 and work back up. Good 4 mins lost.
13 - went west and then on edge of control circle found a big unmapped patch of bare sand and assumed it to be the bare sand just west of the circle. Went to the east and had to fight through 8 ft deep bushes to climb up only to find that the sand was unmapped and the control was just behind it. Good 2 mins lost.
14 clean. 15 cleanish - thought I was taking a good north bearing but control to my left. Tried to go past 6 to 16 and succeeded. Found control exactly where I expected to. Then no major troubles until the finish.
In total about 14 mins or so of mistakes, and 3 mins I would say weren't wholly my fault. To make my feelings for the day even worse have found a tick eating me for the first time.
With three bad runs in a row think I'm now back to being fed up with orienteering again...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/332270720
I like sand dunes but can't say I enjoyed this. Finished so frustrated with my run that I thought it best not to talk about it.
Overshot 1 - getting used to scale and contours +1 min. Ok to 2 and caught Joe up by here but didn't translate contours at all well. Purposely slowed down so that Joe wouldn't feel any pressure from me being just behind. Saw him on and off in the distance until he was half way to 7.
3-4-5 all clean, read contours well. Then 6 - got through the bushes fine then the bearing went off a bit - should have gone where Joe went - lost 2 mins or so working from the big depression by the fence to the east. 7 - again bearing went slightly out after the bushes. Lost 2-3 mins relocating and couldn't match the contours at all - work with distances from the fence.
8 - 1 min lost as my attackpoint did not exist on the ground. Was the easiest control on the course too, lost 1 min due to poor route choice too. 9 and 10 both clean.
11 a complete disaster. Seemed to have caught Joe again but got pretty much into the control circle and then couldn't line up the contours at all. Found control 229 where I was expecting to find my own. In the end had to find control 12 and work back up. Good 4 mins lost.
13 - went west and then on edge of control circle found a big unmapped patch of bare sand and assumed it to be the bare sand just west of the circle. Went to the east and had to fight through 8 ft deep bushes to climb up only to find that the sand was unmapped and the control was just behind it. Good 2 mins lost.
14 clean. 15 cleanish - thought I was taking a good north bearing but control to my left. Tried to go past 6 to 16 and succeeded. Found control exactly where I expected to. Then no major troubles until the finish.
In total about 14 mins or so of mistakes, and 3 mins I would say weren't wholly my fault. To make my feelings for the day even worse have found a tick eating me for the first time.
With three bad runs in a row think I'm now back to being fed up with orienteering again...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/332270720
Saturday Jun 22, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race (2x2 Relays Leg 1) 23:29 [5] 3.77 km (6:14 / km) +50m 5:50 / km
slept:3.5 shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
Leg 1 for NGOC Wan.
S-249-255-253-252-248-246-244-250-F
Took a straight route to 1 and got it fairly cleanly, too far north at 2. Was still at the front of the pack with Ben Doherty at 3 but then Dane overtook and went off into the distance.
Lost 30s or so on 244 as stopped one re-entrant too early.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/332270774
S-249-255-253-252-248-246-244-250-F
Took a straight route to 1 and got it fairly cleanly, too far north at 2. Was still at the front of the pack with Ben Doherty at 3 but then Dane overtook and went off into the distance.
Lost 30s or so on 244 as stopped one re-entrant too early.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/332270774
12 PM
Orienteering race (2x2 Relays Leg 2) 27:03 [4] 4.09 km (6:37 / km) +50m 6:14 / km
(injured) shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Yellow1
Leg 2: S-242-234-232-243-245-247-254-250-F
Took fence route into 1 - got it fine. 2 and 3 both easy. On way to 4, lost the path out and got confused in the dunes. Ended up relocating from 300m away but lost 5 mins in the process.
Messed up 245 having ran past it earlier - seemed only visible from the other direction. Bang on to 247 and 254 but in the effort to make up lost time ran a bit too hard into the wind and pulled my ankle when contouring around a dune. Limped for a bit then slow jogged the rest of the way back.
At least Joe had a pretty good run to bring us in somewhere above the bottom.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/332270747
Took fence route into 1 - got it fine. 2 and 3 both easy. On way to 4, lost the path out and got confused in the dunes. Ended up relocating from 300m away but lost 5 mins in the process.
Messed up 245 having ran past it earlier - seemed only visible from the other direction. Bang on to 247 and 254 but in the effort to make up lost time ran a bit too hard into the wind and pulled my ankle when contouring around a dune. Limped for a bit then slow jogged the rest of the way back.
At least Joe had a pretty good run to bring us in somewhere above the bottom.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/332270747