Training Log Archive: Scrappy Doo

Croeso Day 6 - Aberystwyth

Reasonable run..... missed path on 5 and went too low (2 mins)...... few hesitancies towards end through being tired..... (1 min)

10th 3:11 behind Dan Gooch and 2:46 behind Richard Barrett..... beat Pete Ward by 6 seconds!! Shows speed is good..... just to get rid of silly mistakes!!

Great week of Orienteering, good areas, excellent organisation and planning, best week weather wise of summer obviously helped..... and legs held out pretty well in end

Croeso Day 5 - Teifi Pools

F'in frustrating! almost my best run of week apart from one really stupid moment coming out of no. 8 wemt west instead of north and things fitted until i saw i was level with large lake ! ouch......8 mins lost.... small mistakes at 5 ..... slightly right and hit lake..... almost got good route on first long leg.... should have stayed on road to fence, not around spur....too far south at 11..... stayed too high at 13

Croeso Day 4 - Teifi Pools- struggled with heat and arly start again with no elephant tracks through marshes.... no.3 too far south on spur (1:30), a few seconds lost here and there v dehydrated by end not helped by rush (4.5km) to assembly then start! just to end up doing another non- job!!

13= winner Dan Gooch 62..... Pete Ward got his own back after I beat him by 20 secs on day 2 he beat me by 4 today. Just held off a fresh Parkino....

C • Very long arms ... 3

Summit trail at Nant yr Arian..... few mechanicals with rear mech.... v warm and sunny :-)

croeso day 3 - Hafod

first the positive - glutes/ hamstring getting better.

Overshot 1 (2 mins), straight to no.7 but didn't see control (1:30), must have passed no.8 three times before actiually seeing it (7-8 mins!).... after that course pretty boring and lost interest!! oh well just one of those days.... one for the bin.... two days back out on open moorland now, which injury permitting i'm looking forward to.

First starter prob didn't help and another example of far too many helpers at red start and people doing umnecessary jobs.....

went for cool down paddle in Ystwth River after.... summer at last (or won't last!)

C • what you throw away ... 1

croeso Day 2 - Foel Goch

Too far right no. 1 (2 mins), same no. 2 (1:30), prob went too high 7 - 8..... hamstring/glutes a bit sore, pushed a bit harder, but had to as v quick terrain .... 13th.... (10th Brit) RB 54

croeso Day 1 - frustrating, only a few small mistakes.... mainly 12 - dropped too low, 13 - overshot. Sore glutes/top of hamstring...... meant couldn't ever really push it and worst through tussocky marshes where had to lift leg higher.....

Stunning day and great views of Cader Idris.... walked up to lake below cader after for warm down.

Event: Croeso 2012 - 6 days of Welsh orienteering
 

after walk went for bike ride .... from Happy Valley.... to aberdovey-tywyn road and off road back over top.... good route, out of practice!