Training Log Archive: WillRigg

A huge big fell, 6th position in this race... dodgey start overan control no.1 but then ending up getting back into the the flow agagin and hitting all controls well to no.6 where i hesitated and read a stream as another one recovered from this mistake and started to speed up all good apart from two dodgey controls at the end where i was distracted by the amount people going a different way! lost about 4 or more minutes in this race!

First ever scottish 6! Good banter and 3 average races and one i was really pleased with! finished 7th out of 75 in the end 2 first year m16 just got beaten to 6 th place by dane (1 point) beat him 4 times but he got two 4th's so he had me in the end.

really scrappy race went well to start with hitting most my contols well was in 1st after 2 controls ...soo to end as i was a bit shabby on 3...i was on the right hill but because of the bracken i couldn't see it, got back into it making a mistake later on where i got distracted by a train of people going to one control when mine was 200m to the left this made me look at the map a bit more and i lost like 1 minute just standing there. toward the end of the race i made like 3-4minutes of mistakes misreading a contour line how high up it was and then the last control running up a hill when i simply could of ran around it. 8th out 75 ...(still top ten at least)

Although the map said there was 260m we roughly counted the contours and there was more like 350m.Really happy with this race although i made a few early mistakes overruning no.1 and then taking a bad route choice to no.2-that was about 2-3 minutes lost I felt i orienteered well and ran well! only a little mistake later on where i went to check a control even though i knew it wasn't mine lost about 20 seconds and i did the same on another control. Considering i was an early starter it was unfortunate as i had to bash down all the bracken, I think i lost about 3 minutes from this ontop of about 3 minutes of mistakes. Best race of the week.

played football on the rest day harry thought it would be an idea to see how far we ran with his pedometer/garmin thing, the ended up covering 8k on a 5 a side pitch not so much of a rest day after all. got to the finals and beat the german team n the semi! shame we got knocked by a team the germans beat! :/

Had a good run until a control where i lost 2 minutes i thini and then late on the long leg ,my route was good until i misread the rap and ran up onto the wrong hill when the marsh split either way ended up losing a lot of time on this leg and that cost me alot of positions!!! lost 4 minutes on this.6 minutes lost
7th out 75

Don't even want to talk about this , went out control no.1 wit no plan ...messed up b 17 minutes....worst race ever. had really no motivation to do any better on the other legs not sure why i didnt give up really made like 10 minutes of more mistakes in the other places and just jogged round the course. SHITE!

Event: Scottish 6 Days Oban 2011
 

Was having such a good race.. caught up alex McCann , was hitting all my controls perfect, took a good route choice that got me ahead of alex on the long leg then three controls later i realised i went around a little loop the wrong way 7-10-9-8-9-10 :( ah shit! then rushing back from 9 to 8 i messed up and got myself lost ! was having such a good race....at least can take positives out of it! was in 5 th place before the mistake reckon i was heading for about 3rd after having what felt like such a fast long leg even though i did go to the controls the wrong way round i hit them perfect! ended up 20th :( proabably would of been my best race if i didn't do this unseen thing !

travelling to oban after lagganlia camp!