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Monday Nov 3, 2014 #
Running (Westbury Harriers) 51:09 [4] 11.14 km (4:35 / km) +80m 4:26 / km
slept:6.0 weight:71.7kg shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 r
Westbury Harriers group 2, interesting route.
Really struggling from the start - off the pace, and still feeling unwell. Quite a surprise that the overall distance and time pretty much same as for last week - a few months ago would have been 10k PB pace.
Look forward to more runs where I don't feel like I'm going badly!
http://www.strava.com/activities/215186706/overvie...
Really struggling from the start - off the pace, and still feeling unwell. Quite a surprise that the overall distance and time pretty much same as for last week - a few months ago would have been 10k PB pace.
Look forward to more runs where I don't feel like I'm going badly!
http://www.strava.com/activities/215186706/overvie...
Sunday Nov 2, 2014 #
Event: November Classic (UKOL)
Orienteering race (November Classic) 1:17:12 [3] 11.71 km (6:36 / km) +190m 6:06 / km
slept:1.5 shoes: VJ Integrator High (2)
November Classic at King's Garn Gutter. 10.4km Long Orange course.
Was one of the nicest orange courses I've done but the yellow standard controls 8-9-10-11 weren't very exciting. Maybe in hindsight should have entered brown or black.
Quite a nice area so pleasant - 1 was iffy as was beyond a bush when supposed to be before. Then from 2-10 hand the fence as a handrail as, for some reason, all the controls were put just off it, and nearly did a complete loop of enclosure. Quite runnable apart from boggy bits 3-5.
Next block of course not much harder - all just off paths. No idea why area by 12 was dark green as I would map as white run - could go fairly straight no problem. Lucky on 15 as was a bit far east in the bracken.
First scope for mistake was taking the wrong open after 19, but bearing was easy. Slight miss on 24 but it was TD4. Surprised to be looking too early on 25 - must have gone further off course than thought trying to find a way to cross the 2m deep gorge that was mapped as stream.
Wasn't feeling well before starting and working on very little sleep after wind kept me awake almost all night. Would still have liked to have done this in 70 based on last year's time - maybe just need to consider that KGG more hilly and boggy - hence more physical - than Round Hill and the course probably was harder today with much more off track running (come to think of it, only did about 250 yards of paths over whole course!)
Glad I came, and glad I didn't run black as feeling very tired towards end.
http://www.strava.com/activities/214734537
Was one of the nicest orange courses I've done but the yellow standard controls 8-9-10-11 weren't very exciting. Maybe in hindsight should have entered brown or black.
Quite a nice area so pleasant - 1 was iffy as was beyond a bush when supposed to be before. Then from 2-10 hand the fence as a handrail as, for some reason, all the controls were put just off it, and nearly did a complete loop of enclosure. Quite runnable apart from boggy bits 3-5.
Next block of course not much harder - all just off paths. No idea why area by 12 was dark green as I would map as white run - could go fairly straight no problem. Lucky on 15 as was a bit far east in the bracken.
First scope for mistake was taking the wrong open after 19, but bearing was easy. Slight miss on 24 but it was TD4. Surprised to be looking too early on 25 - must have gone further off course than thought trying to find a way to cross the 2m deep gorge that was mapped as stream.
Wasn't feeling well before starting and working on very little sleep after wind kept me awake almost all night. Would still have liked to have done this in 70 based on last year's time - maybe just need to consider that KGG more hilly and boggy - hence more physical - than Round Hill and the course probably was harder today with much more off track running (come to think of it, only did about 250 yards of paths over whole course!)
Glad I came, and glad I didn't run black as feeling very tired towards end.
http://www.strava.com/activities/214734537
Saturday Nov 1, 2014 #
Orienteering - Urban race (Winchester urban) 1:01:27 [4] 11.89 km (5:10 / km) +75m 5:01 / km
slept:4.5 shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 r
7.6km Mens Open at Winchester.
Not running too fast and some pretty crap route choices on 7-8 and 9-10. Couldn't read the map properly at 27 and only just made a decision to go to the right place before it was too late. Having to take lots of risks with traffic but still had to wait 20s at one point.
Despite the mistakes and feeling slow, results are very bunched up and not too far down. Suppose that the benefit of training is that bad runs aren't actually too slow now. Less than 30s down on Tim Morgan sounds quite good, and well ahead of Kit and Michael.
Great to see that Tommi must have had a good run today - 3 mins up on Michael. Also great to see so many from UBOC running (although not so keen on them beating me!)
http://www.strava.com/activities/214302318
Not running too fast and some pretty crap route choices on 7-8 and 9-10. Couldn't read the map properly at 27 and only just made a decision to go to the right place before it was too late. Having to take lots of risks with traffic but still had to wait 20s at one point.
Despite the mistakes and feeling slow, results are very bunched up and not too far down. Suppose that the benefit of training is that bad runs aren't actually too slow now. Less than 30s down on Tim Morgan sounds quite good, and well ahead of Kit and Michael.
Great to see that Tommi must have had a good run today - 3 mins up on Michael. Also great to see so many from UBOC running (although not so keen on them beating me!)
http://www.strava.com/activities/214302318
Thursday Oct 30, 2014 #
Note
(rest day)
Wednesday Oct 29, 2014 #
Orienteering race (MLS Bagshot) 1:03:12 [3] 9.0 km (7:01 / km) +225m 6:15 / km
slept:4.5 shoes: VJ Integrator High (2)
MLS at Bagshot, 7.6km brown.
Quite wet given the rain and forgot to start GPS as too busy faffing with silly emitag at start (it may say 80cm range, but throughout today's run several controls were not registering even at just 30cm.
Lost almost 1 min on 1. About right into circle but don't think the bushes were mapped well enough to make this fair. 2 didn't feel like it was on right side of bush.
OK route to 3 but turned in far too early - wasn't paying close enough attention to map. After motorway, had right idea to 6 but executed terribly - came off nice flat path to go up 4 contours to lose them straight away, when could have gone round for no extra distance. On and off in a pack of 3 from here on in.
Took my own route 13-14 that was much better than everyone else. Got back to 9 no problem but then had my natural grid 45 degrees off line and went wrong way - end result was no gain on the others. To 16, went north and around - good route, but had to stop for a bit to remove thorns from my fingers as the path down was very very steep and ended up grabbing thorny stuff to hold on to.
Big climb 16-17 caught up with the others, and in a procession through some not very nice bracken to 18. Quick to 19, but it was in wrong place and all spent 1 min looking around. Gained a bit into finish.
Wasn't taking it hard so seems to have gone ok. Lots and lots of unmapped paths that kind of made the whole thing a little unfair as hitting a path was much quicker than fighting through bracken. Not convinced that the solid black mapped paths are in right either - held similar opinion after last visit in Dec 2012.
Still, quite a nice little area and pleased to have got myself out on a fairly dull day.
http://www.strava.com/activities/213149101
Quite wet given the rain and forgot to start GPS as too busy faffing with silly emitag at start (it may say 80cm range, but throughout today's run several controls were not registering even at just 30cm.
Lost almost 1 min on 1. About right into circle but don't think the bushes were mapped well enough to make this fair. 2 didn't feel like it was on right side of bush.
OK route to 3 but turned in far too early - wasn't paying close enough attention to map. After motorway, had right idea to 6 but executed terribly - came off nice flat path to go up 4 contours to lose them straight away, when could have gone round for no extra distance. On and off in a pack of 3 from here on in.
Took my own route 13-14 that was much better than everyone else. Got back to 9 no problem but then had my natural grid 45 degrees off line and went wrong way - end result was no gain on the others. To 16, went north and around - good route, but had to stop for a bit to remove thorns from my fingers as the path down was very very steep and ended up grabbing thorny stuff to hold on to.
Big climb 16-17 caught up with the others, and in a procession through some not very nice bracken to 18. Quick to 19, but it was in wrong place and all spent 1 min looking around. Gained a bit into finish.
Wasn't taking it hard so seems to have gone ok. Lots and lots of unmapped paths that kind of made the whole thing a little unfair as hitting a path was much quicker than fighting through bracken. Not convinced that the solid black mapped paths are in right either - held similar opinion after last visit in Dec 2012.
Still, quite a nice little area and pleased to have got myself out on a fairly dull day.
http://www.strava.com/activities/213149101
Tuesday Oct 28, 2014 #
Running (Frenchay) 1:11:24 [3] 12.8 km (5:35 / km) +95m 5:23 / km
slept:4.0 shoes: Saucony Powergrid Triumph 10 r
From Frenchay to Speedwell, across to end of Eastville Park and back along river.
Taking it easy, but felt by the end that I would have liked it even easier. Michael not really trying either so no incentive to put in any efforts. Lots of regrouping loops and zig-zags.
http://www.strava.com/activities/212895440/overvie...
Taking it easy, but felt by the end that I would have liked it even easier. Michael not really trying either so no incentive to put in any efforts. Lots of regrouping loops and zig-zags.
http://www.strava.com/activities/212895440/overvie...