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Training Log Archive: Ollie

In the 31 days ending Mar 31, 2012:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Cycling45 22:03:05 286.3(4:37) 460.75(2:52) 65
  Cycle Commuting18 7:57:27 103.95(4:36) 167.29(2:51)
  Orienteering7 4:00:48 24.75(9:44) 39.83(6:03) 26095c
  Field Surveying1 2:10:00
  Score Orienteering2 1:57:59 14.48(8:09) 23.3(5:04) 155
  Jogging2 1:09:28 7.62(9:07) 12.26(5:40) 30
  Total73 39:18:47 437.09 703.43 51095c
  [1-5]72 37:08:47
averages - sleep:5.9 weight:67.9kg

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Saturday Mar 31, 2012 #

9 AM

Cycling (To/from Event) 19:33 [3] 7.62 km (2:34 / km)

10 AM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 44:26 [2] 14.1 km (3:09 / km)

11 AM

Cycling (To/from Event) 28:03 [1] 9.42 km (2:59 / km)

4 PM

Note

2h00 - Survey: Stratford City.
7 PM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 45:30 [2] 14.7 km (3:06 / km)

Friday Mar 30, 2012 #

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 27:10 [3] 10.98 km (2:28 / km)

10 AM

Cycling (Old to New) 22:16 [1] 6.95 km (3:12 / km)

6 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 18:23 [2] 6.54 km (2:49 / km)

Work to/from the Roundhouse.
11 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 23:06 [3] 8.87 km (2:36 / km)

Felt strong.

Thursday Mar 29, 2012 #

9 AM

Cycling (Old to New) 24:00 [2] 7.0 km (3:26 / km)

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 30:00 [3] 11.1 km (2:42 / km)

7 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 28:07 [2] 8.96 km (3:08 / km)

8 PM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 41:58 [3] 15.24 km (2:45 / km)

22 out, 20 back.

Wednesday Mar 28, 2012 #

9 AM

Cycling (Old to New) 22:06 [2] 6.94 km (3:11 / km)

Via the canal. Going slowly as heavily laden:

Me: 153.0 lbs
Backpack: 54.2 lbs
Bike: 23.2 lbs
C • Units 5
10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 28:44 [3] 11.03 km (2:36 / km)

First commute from new place. Caledonian Road is a delight on a bike.
C • is it? 4
6 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 31:00 [2] 8.87 km (3:30 / km)

7 PM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 45:00 [2] 14.7 km (3:04 / km)

Tuesday Mar 27, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:43 [2] 8.87 km (2:47 / km)

6 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 28:10 [2] 8.87 km (3:11 / km)

First daylight commute home for a long while - went along the canal and through the park - lovely!
7 PM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 43:10 [2] 14.12 km (3:03 / km)

Daylight for the first time, so via the canal. Slower, busier, much more scenic.
8 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 26:30 [2] 9.03 km (2:56 / km)

To and later from Stratford City, via the Greenway.

Note

1h30 - Survey: Stratford City walkabout with the organiser. Stunning nighttime views of the Olympic Park from the rooftop.

Monday Mar 26, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 26:05 [2] 8.82 km (2:57 / km)

10 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 25:27 [3] 9.36 km (2:43 / km)

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 41:24 [2] 15.82 km (2:37 / km)

Sunday Mar 25, 2012 #

Event: British Middle Distance Championships
 
9 AM

Cycling (To/from Event) 1:39:25 [2] 31.91 km (3:07 / km)

York city centre to the British Middle Champs area, then back (much more slowly) in very warm rucksack. Then later home from KX. Laden with heavy bag throughout.
11 AM

Orienteering (Middle Distance) 53:56 [3] **** 6.5 km (8:18 / km)
27c slept:4.5 (injured) shoes: Adidas Swoop 2s

British Middles. Men's Open. Sunny, warm. One to forget - a bit of a disaster really. Huge mistake on the way to No. 1 - think I came off the start kite in the wrong direction, my focus having gone as I was put off by an extremely upset competitor. Then lost my left shoe in a nasty swamp on the way to 3, took ages to untie the laces and get it back on. Finally, in the middle section, went over on my foot several times (each time more painful than the last). Gave up after this and jogged the rest of the way around the course. The area looked pretty but I found it nasty underfoot with tussocks and swamps everywhere.

Very sleep deprived (Ace Hostel in York was very noisy) so perhaps that was a contributing factor.
9 PM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 42:21 [2] 15.25 km (2:47 / km)

Very tired.

Course 1 - Splits

Saturday Mar 24, 2012 #

Event: British Sprint Championships
 
11 AM

Orienteering (Sprint Race) 16:32 [5] *** 2.6 km (6:22 / km) +25m 6:04 / km
slept:4.5 shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

British Sprint qualifiers. Men's Open B. Cool, cloudy. Started very late (due to late train) and a couple of small (but big for a sprint - 20s) mistakes. Thankfully my start time got adjusted.
3 PM

Orienteering race (Sprint Race) 14:49 [5] *** 2.3 km (6:27 / km) +20m 6:10 / km
shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

BSC Finals. Men's Open B Final. Cool, but sun came out. Almost fault-free, very enjoyable.
7 PM

Cycling 14:32 [2] 5.06 km (2:52 / km)

In York. Very impressed with the cycle paths/provision here - much better than London or indeed anywhere else in England outside of Oxbridge.

Quali - Course H1B - Splits

Final - Course FB1 - Splits

Friday Mar 23, 2012 #

9 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 26:48 [2] 9.11 km (2:57 / km)

7 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 25:05 [2] 8.79 km (2:51 / km)

Felt a bit weaker than normal - hmm.
8 PM

Cycling (Old to New to Old) 37:02 [4] 15.24 km (2:26 / km)

Out in 20 back in 17. Far too much fun bombing down MM at 20mph. Amazing what a bit of chocolate can do.

Thursday Mar 22, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 25:16 [2] 8.86 km (2:51 / km)

6 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 38:14 [2] 12.83 km (2:59 / km)

To Kentish Town and then later home.
7 PM

Score Orienteering (Street-O) 59:31 [3] *** 11.4 km (5:13 / km)
slept:5.5 weight:67.9kg shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

LOK Kentish Town. Once again poor strategy let me down - went north, so when I finally came down to Primrose Hill, didn't have enough time to pick up the points there. So got beaten by Vince by 10 points, even though he ran at least a kilometre less. Also beaten by hfgnr, FRBlackSheep and substantially by paul_c who destroyed the course.

Some good planning too, some considerable thought needed to execute some legs, and got hopefully lost (first for a Street-O?) in a complicated estate that had a big circle in it - forgot to count the exits out of the circle. A good two minute mistake here.
11 PM

Note

1h45 - Carto: Stratford City. First draft sent off to the organiser! Yay! The two smallest levels are only done in outline, but good enough for a first walkthrough.

I've also provisionally planned 30 control locations - of note, 17 of these are outside. Competitors will probably find they spend the majority of their time outdoors. This is mor than just "shopping centre" orienteering!

Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 26:12 [2] 8.86 km (2:57 / km)

7 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 25:41 [2] 9.18 km (2:48 / km)

8 PM

Cycling (Old to New) 21:48 [2] 7.7 km (2:50 / km)

Loaded.
9 PM

Cycling (New to Old) 20:38 [2] 7.76 km (2:40 / km)

11 PM

Note

2h45 - Carto: Stratford City.

Tuesday Mar 20, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 26:54 [2] 8.88 km (3:02 / km)

8 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 24:59 [2] 9.18 km (2:43 / km)

Monday Mar 19, 2012 #

1 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 49:45 [2] 15.54 km (3:12 / km)

7 PM

Cycling (To Station) 22:57 [3] 8.47 km (2:43 / km)

To Waterloo. Moving time.
C • How do you move time? 1
8 PM

Cycling (To Event) 10:05 [3] 3.4 km (2:58 / km)

From Surbiton to Angus's.
11 PM

Cycling (From Event) 39:31 [4] 18.27 km (2:10 / km)

From Don's (Putney) to mine (Homerton). Targetting 40 minutes, hit Waterloo in 20 which was great.

Sunday Mar 18, 2012 #

2 PM

Note

1h30 - Carto: Stratford City.
5 PM

Note

3h00 - Carto: Stratford City.

Good news: Ground level largely done now. Bad news: The map has five levels...

Saturday Mar 17, 2012 #

7 AM

Cycling (To Station) 28:58 [3] 11.68 km (2:29 / km)

To Paddington. Earliest start for a long time...
9 AM

Cycling (To Event) 15:00 [3] 6.23 km (2:24 / km)

Bramley to Silchester.
5 PM

Cycling (From Event) 11:59 [4] 5.98 km (2:00 / km)

From Silchester to Bramley station. Caning it on the new bike, lovely country roads.
C • Cube 2
6 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 28:13 [3] 11.54 km (2:27 / km)

From Paddington. Flying.
11 PM

Note

1h15 - Carto: Stratford City.

Thursday Mar 15, 2012 #

3 PM

Cycling 1:15:58 [3] 27.83 km (2:44 / km)

New cycle computer arrived today :-)
May be calibrated wrong though...
9 PM

Cycling 22:42 [3] 9.25 km (2:27 / km)

10 PM

Note

1h30 - Carto: Stratford City.

Tuesday Mar 13, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:00 [3] 8.7 km (2:46 / km)

New bike! Cube Peloton Pro 2012. Yes it would buy Boris Bike subscriptions for 15 years but it is great fun to tear past other cyclists.
7 PM

Cycling (To Event) 19:00 [2] 6.7 km (2:50 / km) +25m 2:47 / km

Score Orienteering (Street-O) 58:28 [4] ** 11.9 km (4:55 / km) +155m 4:37 / km
shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

SLOW Street-O at Crouch End. Cool and dry. Good race, had good flow, although R shin still hurting slightly early on. Lots of hills, it was often the case of turning at a junction and coming face to face with a very big looking hill.

Did OK (600 points, 7th or so) but the same score as Mike, beaten by Angus, and beaten (by a long way) by hfgnr. My strategy may not have been perfect, although I didn't think it was as poor as my placing suggested. Made one mistake on the course, which wasted 40 seconds, and had 90 seconds spare at the end, but struggling to see how I could have got much more...
11 PM

Cycling warm up/down (From Event) 37:00 [3] 13.9 km (2:40 / km) +40m 2:37 / km

Monday Mar 12, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 26:57 [3] 8.58 km (3:08 / km)

10 PM

Note

3h10 - Carto: Stratford City.

Sunday Mar 11, 2012 #

3 PM

Field Surveying (Stratford City) 2:10:00 [0]

Survey 1. Took 224 photos. A lovely sunny day, so spent plenty of time in the outside sections.

I have now realised that:
1. This is going to be a far harder map than I have ever drawn before - harder than the City of London map.
2. I thought there are four levels to the map. There are actually five. Or eight, if you count mezzanines.
3. I have less than four weeks to map it.
4. This is going to be one amazing event.
8 PM

Note

3h00 - Carto: Stratford City.

Saturday Mar 10, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 22:21 [3] 7.15 km (3:08 / km)

Leg 1.

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 12:41 [3] 4.28 km (2:58 / km)

Leg 2. Turns out you have to wait five minutes before starting a new journey, regardless of the dock you restart at...
12 PM

Orienteering race (Varsity Match) 1:18:02 [4] *** 11.4 km (6:51 / km) +150m 6:25 / km
slept:5.5 shoes: Adidas Swoop 2s

Varsity Match at Burnham Beeches. Warm and dry, sunny in places.

Felt sluggish for the first half, especially considering the fast, white and pretty flat terrain, but speeded up a bit in the second half. A few mistakes and quite lot of banana controls. Biggest mistake was to No. 16 where I had real problems holding the line and drifted a lot to the right, I was essentially lost as nothing fitted the map, until by luck I hit a fence corner I recognised from earlier.

GPS distance 13.35km.
2 PM

Jogging warm up/down 12:00 [2] 2.0 km (6:00 / km) +30m 5:35 / km
shoes: Adidas Swoop 2s

Collecting in a few controls.
11 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 26:25 [4] 9.78 km (2:42 / km)

Check it.

Friday Mar 9, 2012 #

12 AM

Note

0h20: Carto - Stratford City. Done about as much as I can without visiting this place, so looks like I'll be taking a Sunday trip there...
10 AM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 25:23 [3] 8.28 km (3:04 / km)

10 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 23:26 [3] 8.35 km (2:48 / km)

120rpm cadence along the straight sections!

Thursday Mar 8, 2012 #

12 AM

Note

1h20 - Carto: Stratford City.
10 AM

Cycling (Boris Bike) 33:11 [3] 9.31 km (3:34 / km)

Failed in my challenge of getting in in under 30 minutes, but only because the first docking station I tried at the far end was full - and I spent a few minutes failing to add the "15 minute bonus if full" time.

Will try again tomorrow and should be able to do sub-30 this time.
7 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 21:31 [3] 6.77 km (3:11 / km)

Definitely slower than regular bike. But might have regular bike back tomorrow, yay!

Wednesday Mar 7, 2012 #

10 AM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 9:44 [2] 2.17 km (4:29 / km)

Raining, plus I was wearing cleats (hadn't really thought it through) so very difficult to pedal!
6 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 15:39 [3] 4.87 km (3:13 / km)

Final pace-test. Early on, went over a pothole and the metal brace holding the plastic cover over the rare wheel snapped, digging the plastic in. Suprisingly, this didn't impede the bike that much but made it sound like a moped, with a definite electric "whine" as I speeded up. Made the Old Street fixies take notice though.

Tuesday Mar 6, 2012 #

Note

I miss my bicycle. New one on order...
12 AM

Note

0h25 - Carto: Stratford City.
6 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 12:14 [3] 4.36 km (2:48 / km)

Curious to see just how fast I could cycle a Boris Bike (with its three low gears) from work(ish - nearest stand at the start was empty...) to Shoreditch, in rush hour, obeying all lights. Quite fast, it turns out. Just about able to keep up with the Old Street fixies, with a very high cadence. Certainly got me properly warmed up for RDC, I was shaking when I stepped off the bike!

The real challenge will be home to work on Thursday morning (assuming there are bikes available). Just under half an hour on my regular bike, will I also be able to dip below 30 minutes on a Boris Bike and so avoid the £1 surcharge?
C • I know... 5
8 PM

Jogging long (RDC) 57:28 [3] 10.26 km (5:36 / km)
slept:6.0 shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

RDC run (Cheetahs group) up through Highbury Corner and Highbury Fields to the Emirates Stadium, a lap around the concourse and then back, detouring through Shoreditch Park near the end. More of a flow this time, with fewer traffic light stops. The pace was also pushed quite well in places, although still this is a slow tempo for me. It is a group run - generally the group kept together pretty well, with only short breaks needed for people to catch up. Probably around 10 minutes not running - including a decent stop at the stadium itself for photos etc. Massive sprint at the end - all out sub 3min/km for the final 300m.

Right shin niggling a bit at the end - no running tomorrow.

Monday Mar 5, 2012 #

12 AM

Note

2h10 - Carto: Stratford City.

Sunday Mar 4, 2012 #

1 PM

Orienteering race (City Race) 42:38 [4] *** 9.63 km (4:26 / km) +35m 4:21 / km
24c slept:8.5 shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

St Andrews Urban Race. Running Course A. Cool, dry. Best run for a long time. Was able to dip below 4 min/km pace in the early part of the race, thanks to some very long, straightforward legs, before the race got quite technical in the town centre. No mistakes of any significance. Some tricky control placements, required careful reading of control descriptions to end up on the right side of uncrossable walls. Finished 6th of 33. Incidentally the straight-line distance for the course wasn't given, and the shortest possible, which was quoted, was 9.8km - 175m longer than I ran! I've double-checked the map and am pretty sure I didn't go OOB.
C • Shorter 2

Saturday Mar 3, 2012 #

Event: St Andrews Weekend
 
11 AM

Orienteering (Sprint Race) 17:35 [5] **** 3.87 km (4:33 / km) +5m 4:31 / km
23c slept:7.0 shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

Scottish Sprint Championships - Race 1. Langlands, St Andrews University. Was raining lightly, but the grass and tarmac surface was suprisingly non-slippy.

Off the start, I forgot what sprint racing is all about (reading ahead while running fast) and got a rude reminder for the second leg when I ran into an uncrossable wall, and then, the other way, an uncrossable hedge. Finished about half-way down the results - with a good quality field, I was reasonably pleased. Will be interesting to see what the ranking points say though. Course "shortest possible route" distance was 3.3km - no straight-line distance available, so quoting my GPS distance here.

Mistake analysis:
To 2: Poor route choice (forgot about uncrossable features): 20s.
To 3: Perhaps a poor route chocie: 10s.
To 5: Perhaps a poor route choice: 10s.
To 8: Managed to overshoot fence ends twice on the way to this one: 30s.
To 16: Overshot this - I had already seen it to 15 which was annoying: 10s.
To 17: Oh dear - started to go from 16 to 18 and had gone around a building before realising: 20s.
To 19: Oh dear oh dear - completely failed to spot the sensible way out of the area and ran right back to the exit by No. 14, wasting a lot of time. Then overshot a later turning: 40s.

Total: 2m20 of mistakes - so should have been able to do this in 15:15.
1 PM

Orienteering (Sprint Race) 17:16 [5] *** 3.53 km (4:53 / km) +25m 4:43 / km
21c shoes: Nike Lunar +2s

Scottish Sprint Championships - Race 2. North Haugh. Dry this time, and the ground was drying out, so fast running. Was a seeded start, with 30s intervals, i.e. everyone in front of me was slower than me, and everyone behind faster.

A better race overall than the first one, as my mistakes were more minor, although there were still plenty. Again finished about halfway down the list, but pleased that very few others managed a shorter time for their second race. There was a fun section early on which involved running between individual trees - it reminded me of the Ultrasprint in Regent's Park. My aiming was awful here, but the legs were so short I'm not recording any mistake time for this section!

Mistake analysis:
To 2: This was a fiddly leg, managed to miss a staircase, and needed to scramble down a bank. 20s.
To 13: Hesitated a bit here as forgot what building I had just passed. 10s.
To 19: Headed off along the line from 18 before realising that was a bad idea. Doubled back, but froze again at a section with lots of uncrossable walls. Eventually pulled myself together. 30s.

Total: 1m of mistakes. Better!

Thursday Mar 1, 2012 #

12 AM

Note

0h40 - Carto: Hatton Garden.
10 AM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 8:00 [3] 2.47 km (3:14 / km)

7 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 12:36 [2] 3.46 km (3:38 / km)

First stand I visited was empty.
Somehow managed to make 18 90-degree turns on this journey...

Note

0h25 - Wander around Hatton Garden.
8 PM

Cycling (Boris Bikes) 15:30 [2] 4.2 km (3:41 / km)

First stand I visited was empty...
C • Do you not have an App 3
10 PM

Note

1h45 - Carto: Hatton Garden + a tiny bit of the Bourne Estate. This year's extension is now around 15% done. Lots more to come when I return to the COL Map, probably when the clocks go forward (end of March) - some other interesting projects will be distracting me until then!

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