Training Log Archive: Scrappy Doo

Day at WOMAD festival - not good for back and went over on ankle (having survived whole week in Wales with no issues) - luckily no swelling etc.

Jog to start

Croeso Day 5 - Margam - (Long) Middle!!

Enjoyed the woods despite it being slippy - a couple of small misses in here but nothing major

#8 - thought I was in right re-entrant but didn't see control, which was right at top so carried on until saw Chloe punching it!!

#9 - very slow on down slope and dropped too low to control on wall

#10 - struggled to read map

#13 - again struggled to read small paths on map and then missed the left turn so ended up coming through bracken

9th (14th overall) - improvement on where could have been after first two days

Croeso Day 4 - Mynydd Llangynidr

Lost 6 mins at 2 as too far left and struggled to relocate otherwise ok

Simon Hunter 46, Richard Barrett 52

Steady run from Box Hill with Neil T

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Lovely pootle around the Verderers Trail - much more fun than Margam sounded

Lacock Relay - Leg 1

Fast - Slow - Medium tonight.... felt ok for 2km, then legs felt heavy and breathing not good....

Getting 20 secs slower each year (15:50 - 2014, 16:13 - 2015) - although last yea had calf problem and this year had two O races in legs

Jog after race and jog back to car after finish

Croeso Day 2 - Kenfig Middle Distance Race

Lovely runnable sand dunes - but totally ballsed it up - ok 1-3

then poor (or no) bearing to 4 and found 5 first - then same again to 6 - Caught by Dai Bedwell - so then tried to get away - but pushing too hard -

Didn't check description on 8 and was on wrong side of knoll

Couldn't work out map at 10 - and bank was longer than shown on map

Stupid on next 3 and caught by Christian - basically had given up by now and messed up 18 and 19 - jogged last couple

Event: CROESO 2016
 

Croeso Day 1 - Kenfig

ok 1 to 3

#4 - Ended up on path by lake and was quite slow coming back north to control - 2 mins

#5 - big mistake!! just running in right direction, but didn't read the open sand bit on the ground correctly and drifted off to right, despite being on the right line, then ended up by path running parallel to beach, so just came back via 6 - 5 mins

#6 - stupid, stupid, stupid..... thought because I had already been passed it I knew where to go, so didn't read the map and drifted north - 1 min

#9 - slightly too far north - 0:30

#10 - slightly overshot - 0:30

#11 - took route off map and went in at exactly right point, but slipped back down v steep bank initially - 0:30

Feeling pretty knackered from start after sill work week, but calf ok

#11 -

A very lazy week..... stupid long days at work, but hopefully the rest means my calf has had time to settle..... looking forward to two days at Kenfig now