Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Jura 3 Jours
Morbier - Le Marais

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Glorious again. My legs were dead, felt like the end of a long distance from a third of the way around, became hard to think. At least it was mostly downhill, so I could stumble along, and I was able to do so reasonably quickly without always thinking, just taking in enough info to know I was headed in the right general direction. That didn't work going to 15. I didn't realise I had to descend that much, plus stupidity.

Mats Haldin did the 6.5km in 33 and a bit minutes. Beast.

I could do this forever. So much fun!

Jog near Chapelle-des-Bois, my first ever (xc) ski experience.

I hoped to do a loop, maybe 30-45 minutes, but I checked my watch halfway through and discovered I'd gone in a roughly straight line. Oops.

Event: Western Mass 5-Day
 

La Roche Fondue
Morez, in the Jura.

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Great middle distance, map and terrain wonderful, I felt like I was orienteering seriously for some of it, but the sharpness wasn't there, plus the map was excellent and I didn't know I should trust it that well.

A bunch of top orienteers were there, so after making a few mistakes too many, I wasn't within 150% of the winning time. I need to get back training to do more of this, and to do it better. It is so beautiful and so much fun.

#1 - all good until I got to the circle, knew it should be to the left a little, but there was a bit of a re-entrant heading up towards the depression, and I didn't want to go uphill. Maybe a stacked form-line would help.

#2 - good and fast, except on the map the pit is ten metres beyond the green, and I stopped at the edge of the green, didn't see the pit, so did a back and forth.

#3 - generally good, the wall made it easy

#4 - not the best line, should have been a bit more to the right, easy

#5 - should have been easy, but I didn't know where I hit the trail, made an uneducated guess, then changed my mind when I didn;t hit the small trail, then went on a wander. bad.

#6 - fine

#7 - fine

#8 - fine, but didn't understand the map. Drawing a small depression with an index contour was the biggest cartographical mistake I noticed.

#9 - there's probably a faster route, but I knew where I was going.

#10 - route is apparently ok, although the straight/left route looks nice.

#11-13 - good, except I should have gone straighter up the hill to 13, and I was walking up that hill.

#14 - started thinking about hvo stuff on this leg, lost track of where I was on the trail, then worked it out, then went further left than I intended on the slope, hit the little hill, worked out where I was, then didn't take a good line to the control

#15 - left 14 with two others, tried pushing, went off the line, corrected...

#16 to finish - fine, more or less.

Night relay, second leg.

Made one big mistake on the sixth control, across a slope... was trying to push and drop a wee pack. Fail. A couple of other big wobbles, but nothing too serious. Fun fun fun!!

Over a hundred teams took part! I love Europe.

Fail. On the other hand, at least now I'm more likely to end up somewhere with toilet seats. It is pretty here, though.

C • ou? 2

Calling all Vikings and Visigoths! Who's ready to run an adventure run type thing called "Raid the Sanctuary" in Westchester on July 22nd? Find a team-mate and save the date!

Wonderful evening, some running, some exploring, some challenges.

Not at all ready to catch a plane tomorrow.