Training Log Archive: Chas

LOC Long Distance race, Holme Fell.
Short Brown 2 course, 6.5km, 365m.
Another 2nd behind Quentin. This is getting boring!
Fell coming out of #3 and sliced my thumb and my map. The slice almost exactly followed the red line to #5 (I took the northern option) and that (combined with the blood) made reading the map a bit difficult. No excuses there though: my main time losses were later on when I'd regained my composure. Got crag bound coming out of #10 and lost track en route to #14, rebounding off the fence to the north.
According to the splits Quentin was running faster than me anyway and I was only as close as I was because he missed #22. About 1 min down today.
Winsplits: http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Routegadget: http://www.loc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#73&course=12...

C • Boring? 1

Event: LOC weekend - Middle/Long Distance
 

LOC Middle Distance race, Tarn Hows.
Brown course, 4.1km 215m.
Typical Lake District weather rendering glasses next to useless. Luckily the map was 1:7,500 and my eyesight isn't that bad yet so just about coped. Really need to have another go at contact lenses though.
Pretty good run. Little banana into #3. Faffed a bit with fence and wall crossings to #6. Wrong way round hill to #10. Climbed too much into circle at #14 (something wrong with contours here?). Also climbed too high on way to #15. Finally got stuck in a bog going to #17. Probably could have been a couple of minutes quicker but that's being picky.
slightly disappointed to finish 35 seconds behind Quentin.
Winsplits: http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...
Routegadget: http://www.loc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#72&course=2&...

Warm up and down along forest road to/from start /finish.

Golf with Roy. Played matchplay and i won 1 up. Good close match and came back from 1 down with 2 to play. Approx 37 Stableford points.

Walk around Storthes Hall picking up a few signs from Monday. Very little evidence of 1500 people having trashed the place just 4 days ago...

Session with Kim to try and sort hamstring issue.
Apparently my left glut isn't working properly. She loosened it off and gave me some exercises to do.

Easy bike ride with Lulu on her (very late) Christmas present.
Huddersfield, Marsden and back through Meltham.

No Achilles soreness on first step or down the stairs this morning.

Golf with Roy. 36 Stableford points (15/21). Blob start blob finish.

Digley with Simon.
My R Achilles is a bit grumbly. I first noticed a slight soreness after finishing on Saturday. It was OK to start on Sunday but was noticeably worse by the time I finished. Just slightly niggly Monday. Hopefully nothing serious and an easy week should allow it to settle down.

Garage circuits.

If you call getting up at 0530 (to see a blizzard out of window) and then on the go working at the JK Relay all day a rest day?