Training Log Archive: Keith

Jog round AC, had to get out with such a cracker day.

Event: Croeso 2012 - 6 days of Welsh orienteering
 

Watched relay today. Nice coverage in the event centre.

Enjoyed the week, particuarly the sun/swimming/mountains and banter in the aus/nzl campsite slum.
Technically - shite
Physically improved during the week, amazed how much fitness i had lost over the month before.
Knee seems to improve with training, have strong suspecision it is aggravated by work. specifically my work shoes.

Chateau de Goblet
This was the area for the long final and to be honest it was a bit shite. It was a probably less intresting than leigh woods. Had plan to go in and out off the tracks. Broke this on number 1 with some short forest section which i had to bail out of. Enthuasim waned at times with some wlaking sections, interspersed with being more motivateted. Did some really wide route choices to try and stay out of the grot.

Jog to start

Run above verbier with Gerogia and Ilka. Got the gondale to les ruinettes at about 2200 m. Walked up to 2700. Walked up to Attelas at 2700, then ran down cool ridge track to Croix de coeur and then verbier. Great views of some high mountains and another sunny day.

Day 3 - Bretaye.
This was a day in a great setting in the alps.Glad i wasn't first start. The terrain was full of shite. Luckkly by the time i got there it was full of tracks. Still made some maronic errors, 2, 3 (this was really bad, had to relocate but relocated off the wrong point...) , 7, 9 (seemed to come across an unmapped cave on this leg). couldn't find the control in 15 in the circle. The non-specific description combined with ambigous mapping made finding the actual reentrant challening. 16, had no plan, as way too tired and just ran and relocated. Scrappy 22/23/24. Stayed high too finish. wow a lot of climb.

Jog down to start.

MIddle race at La Pile. Some nice forest. Went out to #1 and still did a small miss, also at 3 and annoyingly 6. 8 looked tough so planned conservative route. deviated at the end, and made a resulting stuff up, opps. went straight to #9 which was probably slower. Enjoyed this, despite being technically poor again.

Jog to start with Tane.
His jogging speed is not far of my race pace at current fitness level!

Day 2. Mont Chaubert. Nice technical swiss area. A bit like day 5/6 from 2009.
Going alright for the first 7, regretted straight route choice to #1 as it was technically tough. some small hestations. Out to track for #5, bu even then lost correct track at junction. Then died on fitness on the climb to 8, and stuffed it up. A slight enthusaism loss & crap route to 11. Then absolutly bonked on way to #16. Struggled to walk through to the end, and made some technical mistakes. The most i've ever felt like pulling out.

Jog to start.