Training Log Archive: Jon X

Jukola 2012, Leg 3 for Nope Team Banter, long night 14.1km.
Took over in 382nd after good work from Ben and Brooner but plummeted all the way down to 608th. The rest of the team salvaged 445th place but we were nearly an hour off the target 300th place - probably at least half that time should have been saved by me....
A shocking 1057/1578 on the leg.

In retrospect my preparation for this was asking for trouble...
- very late night Thursday and up at 4am for a flight
- late night Friday and up at 5am for a flight
- not enough focus on sleep when I did get to Finland, only 2hrs snooze before running at 2am.

Thought I felt okay although a little sluggish warming up and running the 1km to the start kite, however I just never had the concentration or focus needed, looking back at the map afterwards my plans for legs are characterised by vagueness, plus I seemed to think that finding the circle would be enough rather than navigating all the way to the flag.

Three very horrid legs costing 7/8 mins each - at #1 (ffs), #7 and #14. A lot of other pratting about costing 30s-2mins each time (in particular at #2, #10, #11, #17, #19).

Pretty sure I can orienteer a lot better than that.
Pretty bad to run that badly in a relay - sorry team!
Pretty clear another trip to Jukola is needed in the near future.

Event: Jukola 2012
 

Decided best use of time was to go out on the model map and then sleep rather than just sleep (hmmm) - only intended to do a few controls but took a while to get legs moving after the last couple of days so went to all bar one of them in the end.

FVO WEE at Falkirk Wheel - delighted we have mapped this and it was even better than I expected, great area for middle race.

Minimal warmup and sore from football so ran steady to #1 and missed it right (plus it was in the wrong place!). Then too soft to run through the nettles to #2 and faffed for ages finding a way through. Just took it steady after that and had a bit of fun running behind Al Dunlop, going a bit slower but choosing slightly better lines so I didn't get left behind. Got caught up by Rosco and Jack Baker so thought I should speed up a little and not get dropped by them - helped by Rosco missing the pit on the ridge and having to overtake again....

Enjoyed it - cheers Will.

Little bit of control collection with Rosco.

A bit of team nonsense at work event - some six-a-side football followed by some lightweight javelin/discus, some wellie whanging, and some space hopper/sack/egg-and-spoon racing.

Haven't played football for a while and my muscles are now pointing that out...