Training Log Archive: Chas

Post Captain's hungover golf at Beauchief. Reasonable standard this year; my 94 wasn't good enough to beat Chappers (89).

Event: YHOA Superleague/YHOA Middle Championships
 

Yorkshire Middle Dist Champs, Brimham Rocks. Black course (M18 to M40), 4.5km, 110m.
Good race, clean except for a few loops around lumps of rock looking for the flag. Less than 2 mins lost in total. Great run by Joe Woodley to do 31, but pleased to pip Mikey for 3rd by 7 seconds.
Routegadet: http://www.claro.routegadget.co.uk/claro/reitti.cg...

Warm down lap of the area.

SPOOK Relays, Burbage Valley and Boulders. Team with Mikey.
2nd leg, course C1. Approx 2.5km. Disaster! Lost the ability to orienteer. Stopped too early on no.1 and lost a couple of minutes, but it really went wrong once I got on the 1:2,000 map of the boulders. Never really got into the map at all and binned time on virtually every control. Oli took about 15 mins for this leg! Left Mikey with quite a bit of work to do....

Leg 4, course B2 another 2.5km.
A lot better this time; just a couple of minor misses in the boulders. Still in contention with Marky/Wardy and Chappers/Simon thanks to Mikey.

Leg 6, course A1, 2.2km.
Mikey set me off just in front of Marky and Chappers so the pressure was on. Fortunately I'd regained the ability to orienteer (and we didn't go into the boulders) and I held them off (and even overtook Dan Hartman) despite Marky having the same course.
Great race and great fun in the boulders. Real shame the forest is now due for felling...
Results: http://www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk/event/2...

Golf. Broke 100 again (just). R Achilles just very slightly niggly today. Rest day planned anyway. Hopefully it'll be OK in terrain over the weekend.

C • Brimham Rocks? 5

Hades Clough route. Feeling pretty strong. Pleasing after 18 holes of golf in the morning. Last ran this route on 19/7 (52 mins).

Now standard route: Digley, Yateholme, Hades and Cartworth Moor, as 6/11. This route seems to take longer each time I do it. It was a bit windy today, or maybe I'm just getting older...
3x10 heel raises.

Yateholme circuit, anticlockwise for a change. Decided to call this 'road running' from now on as it's over half tarmac. Calf didn't stiffen up this time which is good but still taking it pretty steady, particularly on the downhill.