Training Log Archive: jemmerson

Event: SYO - Selection Race - Big Moor
 

event cancelled, was really looking forward to it as well :/

Event: Northern Night Champs
 

NOC event at clifton campus
thought it was a very good course, only problem was the line from 17 to 18 obscured an uncrossable fence so on the map it looks like you can get through so was pretty annoyed when I got there and there was a big fence in my way so I had to go back a different way :/
was 6th on the long, 2nd woman
routegadget - http://www.noc-uk.org/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?ac...

northern night champs
conditions weren't exactly ideal, really hard to see anything with snow blowing into your face and headtorch lights up the snow so you can actually see more with the torch turned off, only problem then is its a bit dark... only good thing about the snow was finding the badly taped way to the start by following the footprints ;)
for most of the course I used paths as much as possible instead of going straight and I took it slow but I still managed to make quite a few mistakes. I overshot number 2, then overshot number 3 and none of the contour detail seemed to make sense, saw dane and jake there and they seemed pretty confused too, then to 13 I decided to go straight which was a bad idea, I ended up on the wrong path and I thought I knew which path I was on but not sure how far along it so after a bit of panicking I ran up the path to a junction with a big track and pace counted back the way I came to find the small path I wanted, happy I managed to relocate but lost 7 minutes and then I messed up 14 as well, turns out I was actually in the right place but was a couple of metres to the right of the control and hadn't seen it so I'm putting this one purely down to the extremely low visibility.
really didn't enjoy it, mostly because of the snow but I guess it was a good experience and it could have been a lot worse...
8th on green, 2nd woman
routegadget - http://www.syo.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti.cg...

could have trained but went out for a curry with some friends instead...

was going to go for a run but it's freezing outside and I haven't done any s+c for a couple of weeks so I did that instead

in the gym in gcse pe again so went on the bike again but I wasn't on for long cos I had my oral assessment

Did quite a bit of s+c type stuff tonight

Cold definately gone :)

3 x 1200m with 2 min recovery
10 min jog and drills to warm up and 10 min jog to warm down
was going to rest today but I've felt absolutely fine, cold feels like its gone after only a few days :) just to be safe I didn't push hard tonight and had a nice chat during the reps ;)

feeling better today :)