Training Log Archive: Keith

JK Long, Slieve Croob

Open hillside, with crags and marsh. Started badly hesitating on 1 trying to get into it. Then rough at number 5, stuffed up number 7, no plan, and then got scared i'd gone to far, and went up to relocate, went through 12 to 26 cleanly, just trying to push myself, as by myself. then thought 27 looked easy, ran through drink point, but not quite sure if this was in the correct place, wasn't really concentrating and ended up too low, which was really stupid and annoying. So just felt technically off the boil today, for such simple terrain, too many mistakes 4.5 mins all up. Felt I went OK physically, probably would've been too my advantage had it actually been proper classic length. Was never going to be a great result today, but I enjoyed it all the same. My expectations were pretty low, given the previous map, so it was better than i thought it was going to be.

Winner Hector Haines 74:46

warm up down,
couldn't even find my number today, and then when the officals found it, lost it anyway in a crash big enough to rip all 4 pins off.

JK Middle, Tyrella South

Terrain was rather large open dunes. Completly bombed the first control, Came off what i thought was my attack point but it wasn't, kept on relocating off this feature, which of course wasn't it. lost over 6 mins on this, so gave up at this point. fecked up 2, as i didn't reeally care at that point, and then cruised the rest of it home, still making the odd mistake and bad route.

Ah well, one to throw away. I've never been good at macro relocation, luckily it's not something I have to do that often. I don't reguarly miss first controls either. The learning piont would be to try and use more than one feature to ensure I knew where i was. I should've probably physically headed towards the fence corner. Even got beaten by Matt!

Warm up - caught Joe T trying to steal me number :-)

Event: JK 2011
 

JK Sprint, Stanmills, Belfast, NI

Very technical start, Got 1 & 2 alright, but then mucked up 3 a bit. Just felt a bit cold technically, first sprint race i've done in a while. Probably a little bit lucky at times. Noticed alex rothman catching me a bit early on, so pushed a bit harder from ~10. Pleased to hear Alex having a good run at 15, so thought i must be alright. I was almost glad when he caught me at 23 after i made a small mistake. Stuffed up 26 trying to take a sneaky route, which led to a large unmapped wall. Powered home to finish.

Overall I really enjoyed it, very technical sprint, which suited me, it never let up even at the end so required decent concentration throughout. Pretty pleased with my run, a collection of small mistakes, and an inablility to push hard technically at the start whislt getting into it. Maybe 30 s mistakes all up. The highest WRE points i've ever got.

Winner Matt C 13.29 me + 3.12

WUD

BOK, urban O, coombe dingle.

Was thinking about resting, but nice night, so cruised round the course. Excellent course planning led it to being far more technical than i envisaged, I really had to concentrate to pick routes at times. Good tuning for friday.

Monday night run from bath club hut. Cracker evening, nice run round the edge above bath.

Followed by a racous course of vitamins and minerals.