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Friday May 3, 2019 #
8 AM
Cycling: Commute 17:30 [0]
6 PM
Running 14:42 [2] 2.37 km (6:12 / km) +19m 5:58 / km
ahr:132 max:141
Orienteering 10:56 [5] 2.52 km (4:21 / km) +13m 4:14 / km
ahr:144 max:175
Irish Champs Sprint - 1st
Ran hard, was clean & the forest style sprint suited me. Came away with a nice win and good confidence booster.
I'd figured out which way to go if number 1 was in any of the buildings section from the map in the start box, so when I picked up the map and saw #1, I zig-zagged through the underpasses and got reading my map to plan ahead as I came up to the control. Saw Niall coming out as I came in (1min), so this was already a nice confidence boost.
Hoped to have Niall in front to 2, but he was out of sight. Despite a little confusion at the extra wall, I got 2 fine, and headed through the forest low to 3. Again saw Niall out of 3 as I went into it. Was pretty smooth and happy so far, trying to work hard and hopefully get more sight of Niall to make it a bit easier.
Nailed 4 and 5 was easy. Hopping the river to 6, I could see Niall a little ahead, pretty much ignored him as I wanted to plan ahead a bit and got 7 out the way and a glance at 8, and as I got to the steps to 6 Niall seemed a lot closer all of a sudden. Chased him up to 7, but when he came back out the same way I figured I could get onto the road so took this route and found a wild Conall coming onto the road. 8 was easy from my route and I'd gotten ahead of Niall, and took 8 & 9 to plan ahead a little. Worked up the hill behind Conall to 9, but he was going well so was sat behind him, but took a better line out of it to get ahead on 10. Had figured out the next few so was just trying to be very smooth and went well through 10-11-12-13, and took the right-hand route to 14. Seems this was a bit slower and was probably my only time loss technically on the course.
Knew it was easy from here, and I had been going well, so I worked hard through the next few and tried to give it all, clean through the rest, and then ran a bit too fast into the last control and missed the finish chute and went down another taped section (?) through some shite bushes but I was running hard and didn't have to turn as sharp as the other route so reckon it was grand. Flashed the Si air and knew I'd done about as much as I could in that race.
Got called back to punch the finish properly - which I'm pretty sure I didn't need to do, and the Si took my later punch so this added ~10s to my run-in. Coulda been gutting but fortunately my race had been good enough to have a clear lead anyway.
Very happy with the result. Sprint hasn't been my aim for this weekend, but I knew as it was somewhat forest, if it was good it could still suit me. I think the technical side of the sprint suited my style and I pulled off a really good race running hard, smoothly and cleanly through the controls.
As I said above a nice confidence boost as much as anything and chuffed to get another IOC title. These seem to be getting harder and harder to win I would say.
Ran hard, was clean & the forest style sprint suited me. Came away with a nice win and good confidence booster.
I'd figured out which way to go if number 1 was in any of the buildings section from the map in the start box, so when I picked up the map and saw #1, I zig-zagged through the underpasses and got reading my map to plan ahead as I came up to the control. Saw Niall coming out as I came in (1min), so this was already a nice confidence boost.
Hoped to have Niall in front to 2, but he was out of sight. Despite a little confusion at the extra wall, I got 2 fine, and headed through the forest low to 3. Again saw Niall out of 3 as I went into it. Was pretty smooth and happy so far, trying to work hard and hopefully get more sight of Niall to make it a bit easier.
Nailed 4 and 5 was easy. Hopping the river to 6, I could see Niall a little ahead, pretty much ignored him as I wanted to plan ahead a bit and got 7 out the way and a glance at 8, and as I got to the steps to 6 Niall seemed a lot closer all of a sudden. Chased him up to 7, but when he came back out the same way I figured I could get onto the road so took this route and found a wild Conall coming onto the road. 8 was easy from my route and I'd gotten ahead of Niall, and took 8 & 9 to plan ahead a little. Worked up the hill behind Conall to 9, but he was going well so was sat behind him, but took a better line out of it to get ahead on 10. Had figured out the next few so was just trying to be very smooth and went well through 10-11-12-13, and took the right-hand route to 14. Seems this was a bit slower and was probably my only time loss technically on the course.
Knew it was easy from here, and I had been going well, so I worked hard through the next few and tried to give it all, clean through the rest, and then ran a bit too fast into the last control and missed the finish chute and went down another taped section (?) through some shite bushes but I was running hard and didn't have to turn as sharp as the other route so reckon it was grand. Flashed the Si air and knew I'd done about as much as I could in that race.
Got called back to punch the finish properly - which I'm pretty sure I didn't need to do, and the Si took my later punch so this added ~10s to my run-in. Coulda been gutting but fortunately my race had been good enough to have a clear lead anyway.
Very happy with the result. Sprint hasn't been my aim for this weekend, but I knew as it was somewhat forest, if it was good it could still suit me. I think the technical side of the sprint suited my style and I pulled off a really good race running hard, smoothly and cleanly through the controls.
As I said above a nice confidence boost as much as anything and chuffed to get another IOC title. These seem to be getting harder and harder to win I would say.
Running 25:43 [2] 4.26 km (6:02 / km) +38m 5:47 / km
ahr:152 max:170