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Saturday Apr 15, 2006 #
Orienteering race (International Event) 1:09:20 [3] **** 7.4 km (9:22 / km) +200m 8:15 / km
spiked:9/15c slept:5.5 shoes: Standard White O-Shoes
JK 2006 Day 1, Ilkley Moor.
Today's race was in an approprately spectacular setting, on intricate north-facing moorland just south of the spa town of Ilkley, in West Yorkshire. The weather was nice and sunny, and even warm. Again, my plan was to just jog around, and retire if I felt weak. But again, I felt OK most of the way around (I walked parts of a couple of legs.)
The M21S course I did was very well planned, on a superb area. There was a 2km leg into some intricate moraine terrain, that I duly made numerous mistakes on, a steep climb to the top of the moor, and then a very pleasant and technical zig-zag down to the finish.
I made numerous mistakes, but as I was going slowly, none of these were serious - the worst was an embarrasing 90s blunder near the end at what should have been a trivial control - in my defence, an important path was obscured by the control circle. Oddly, I failed to notice until the end that I had been running on a 1:15000 scale - I guess features come up faster when running on clear open moorland. All in all, a good race and I was delighted by my apparent fitness, on the back of no recent training. What a great map, great course and lovely conditions, so much better than I was expecting. This map might sneak into my Top 10 UK areas.
Today's race was in an approprately spectacular setting, on intricate north-facing moorland just south of the spa town of Ilkley, in West Yorkshire. The weather was nice and sunny, and even warm. Again, my plan was to just jog around, and retire if I felt weak. But again, I felt OK most of the way around (I walked parts of a couple of legs.)
The M21S course I did was very well planned, on a superb area. There was a 2km leg into some intricate moraine terrain, that I duly made numerous mistakes on, a steep climb to the top of the moor, and then a very pleasant and technical zig-zag down to the finish.
I made numerous mistakes, but as I was going slowly, none of these were serious - the worst was an embarrasing 90s blunder near the end at what should have been a trivial control - in my defence, an important path was obscured by the control circle. Oddly, I failed to notice until the end that I had been running on a 1:15000 scale - I guess features come up faster when running on clear open moorland. All in all, a good race and I was delighted by my apparent fitness, on the back of no recent training. What a great map, great course and lovely conditions, so much better than I was expecting. This map might sneak into my Top 10 UK areas.
Friday Apr 14, 2006 #
Event: JK 2006
Orienteering race (Sprint Race) 21:03 [3] ** 3.24 km (6:30 / km) +90m 5:42 / km
spiked:14/16c slept:9.0 shoes: Standard White O-Shoes
JK 2006 Prologue: Sprint-O, Temple Newsam.
Arrived at Temple Newsam, near Leeds, in the late afternoon, having just travelled up from London. Weather was sunny, crisp and clear, although with a chilly breeze. I was apprehensive as to my fitness/strength, having avoided all forms of exercise for the last four weeks, and was going to just walk/jog around a few of the training controls. But decided at the last second to do the Men's Open sprint. Ran deliberately slowly (a jog really, rather than a sprint) but felt generally OK once I realised I has enough strength to make it around. In the end, I posted a good time - ending up 86th= out of a field of over 200 - probably the largest ever field I have run in.
It was lovely to run through the ornamental parkland, through visitors relaxing on the lawns, up to follies and around the ponds. The finish - into an ampitheatre thronged by spectators, other competitors and the flags of the JK entrants - was dramatic. I really enjoyed this, my first proper sprint race, and hope to do some more in the future.
Mistakes - two poor route choices (20s wasted for each), one mistake (20s again) and maybe 90s wasted for going deliberately slowly - but this may have been why I only made small mistakes.
Arrived at Temple Newsam, near Leeds, in the late afternoon, having just travelled up from London. Weather was sunny, crisp and clear, although with a chilly breeze. I was apprehensive as to my fitness/strength, having avoided all forms of exercise for the last four weeks, and was going to just walk/jog around a few of the training controls. But decided at the last second to do the Men's Open sprint. Ran deliberately slowly (a jog really, rather than a sprint) but felt generally OK once I realised I has enough strength to make it around. In the end, I posted a good time - ending up 86th= out of a field of over 200 - probably the largest ever field I have run in.
It was lovely to run through the ornamental parkland, through visitors relaxing on the lawns, up to follies and around the ponds. The finish - into an ampitheatre thronged by spectators, other competitors and the flags of the JK entrants - was dramatic. I really enjoyed this, my first proper sprint race, and hope to do some more in the future.
Mistakes - two poor route choices (20s wasted for each), one mistake (20s again) and maybe 90s wasted for going deliberately slowly - but this may have been why I only made small mistakes.
Thursday Apr 13, 2006 #
Note
slept:9.0 weight:70kg
Just yesterday (Wednesday) I was still feeling weak, and about to bin the JK and just go home for Easter. But felt a lot better today, so thought I'd go to the JK anyway, to spectate or (if I felt up for it) to maybe jog around my courses...