Training Log Archive: mikeyA

JK relay leg 3, m48- relay. Went out in the lead after jake pulled Dane's first leg up to first. Had about a minute and a half lead. All going very well up till 11. Stupidly tried to go round and contour the hill when an obvious path route over the top was easily better. Lost 1 and a bit mins. Will r caught me here after he had a great run. Followed him for the last 3 controls but was unable to catch him. Finished 2nd bout 10 secs down on loc and 1 min ahead of interlopers. Should have won.

Whole weekend not great. 1/2 good runs out of 4 not brill. Eyoc out the window. Nice to get a medal on the relay but should have been better... Northerns and british hopefully can be better :L

JK day 3, 2nd individual, Craig a Barns. Awful run. Not concentrating at start and ran off wrong way. Relocated. Got to where the control was and just ran around not finding it. Tried stopping and thinking but that didn't work. Lost 4 mins. Lost 30 secs on 2 just going too slow and hesitant round the control. 4 ran the wrong way out of 3 and couldn't work out where I was. Ran back to 3 and tried again. Lost 2 mins. 5 got stuck in awful stuff, lost 30 secs. 6 was wonderful found it perfect. Did it quicker than 1 despite it being 3 times further. 8 tried to go straight. Didn't work, stuck in rocks brashings etc and when ingot near it I couldnt work out what hill it was on. Lost 2.30. 9 lost 30 secs as too high. 10, nearby there were 3 controls near it And I visited all of them before mine, lost 1 min. Rest was average, followed Lucy but for 12 & 13. She was fairly quick :L finished 18, 13 mins down on the foreign winner :/

Overall finished 10th. Don't know what to think about that bit mixed but it would have been nicer to have a better run on day 3...

JK day 2, 1st individual day, Dunalastair. Good run really. Bit confused at 1 lost 15 secs but got lucky and saw it. Maybe took the wrong gate at 5 (western one). Didnt spot sasha's route on 6 round the path, lost 1 min to him but I don't think many went that way. Was shattered going to 10 and dropped a bit low, lost 15 secs. 12 biggest mistake went too low and ended up at the stream before having to run up the big hill. Lost 1 min and A bit. All right to the end. Finished 6th 3.30 down on Joe :) could have been quicker but I'm happy with that :)

Event: JK 2012
 

JK sprint. Annoyed no end at this. Was going all very well hitting everything and picking good routes. Lost maybe 10 seconds on 13 as I didn't know wether I could cross a fence and ran round. Turns out I could have. But 15!! Stopped thinking and crossed the BIG bridge before running down the river.... On the wrong side :/ could see 16 on the other side. Ran all the way round and even then went to 16 before 15! Realized and finally went to the right one. Lost 2 mins. Lost 30 secs on 17 as well by trying to go a clever route and getting a bit lost. Not at all good and finished 32nd D':