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Monday Aug 3, 2015 #
Orienteering race 1:31:20 [3] 4.4 km (20:45 / km)
Day 2 at Strathfarrar.
So, this was pretty much a disaster. Missed horribly on two controls: the first one due to the bracken hiding the features and the other was just me being stupid. I also was pretty wiped out halfway through, so not a lot of speed going on. Running down steep hillsides covered in bracken hiding rocks is not my favorite thing. I fell many times today. Tomorrow is another day.
So, this was pretty much a disaster. Missed horribly on two controls: the first one due to the bracken hiding the features and the other was just me being stupid. I also was pretty wiped out halfway through, so not a lot of speed going on. Running down steep hillsides covered in bracken hiding rocks is not my favorite thing. I fell many times today. Tomorrow is another day.
Sunday Aug 2, 2015 #
Orienteering race 1:19:00 [4] 5.25 km (15:03 / km) +105m 13:41 / km
Day 1 Scottish 6 Days - Achagour, north of Nairn
Not a totally clean run, bobbled 1, 2, and 8, and a poor route choice to 10. But nothing too bad, and I'm holding onto my goal of top half.
It was a beautiful day while we were at the event. I was first out in our group (me, Mikell, Peter, and Gail), so I jogged to the start by myself. Somehow, the three of them all start close to each other each day, and I am the outlier. I'm also the slacker in results...the three of them are all in the top ten in their categories. I can't do that, but I can definitely move up.
Not a totally clean run, bobbled 1, 2, and 8, and a poor route choice to 10. But nothing too bad, and I'm holding onto my goal of top half.
It was a beautiful day while we were at the event. I was first out in our group (me, Mikell, Peter, and Gail), so I jogged to the start by myself. Somehow, the three of them all start close to each other each day, and I am the outlier. I'm also the slacker in results...the three of them are all in the top ten in their categories. I can't do that, but I can definitely move up.
Saturday Aug 1, 2015 #
Running 1:10:37 [3]
The trip over was not too bad, except I got little to no sleep. And it still amazes me that I paid $1200+ for my ticket and all I got besides the space in the plane (which wasn't that large) was 2 cups of water. I long for the good old days of trans-Atlantic flying.
When we got to Glasgow, we picked up the rental car and began another harrowing first day of driving on the left. Not as bad as the last first day, but still pretty stressful, especially doing the four hour drive on no sleep. I resorted to eating carrot sticks to try to stay awake. We also stopped at The House of Bruar, where I stopped last time. A wonderful place full of sweets, food, coffee, tea, various shops. I only got a latte to try to hold off the sleepiness.
After quite a delay through Nairn, we finally made it to our cottage in Dyke. It's quite cute and quite perfect for our stay here. We dropped off our stuff and headed to Forres to watch the Sprint qualifier. Unfortunately, we missed most of the women, but did see and cheer for Ali finishing. Hung out with Peggy and Nadim and kids. Then ended the evening by heading to the Tesco for groceries. I have to say it's nice to know my way around and not be totally bewildered by everything. It makes a big difference.
We slept in today...until 10:00!! I guess I was really tired because that was 10 straight hours of sleep. Had a light breakfast and then headed to Culbin Woods for an easy shake out run. I had the map from the race here in 2013 and let Mikell take that; I was happy enough with just a run. I did go off trail once, though, and that was enough to get me a little turned around. I went through some thick woods, thinking I'd hit a trail, turn right to another trail, and then left to the car park. I did all that, but then I hit an intersection with the wrong numbered post. My first reaction was the trail map I was carrying was wrong and started going in the wrong direction, but after about 50 yards, I told myself that the map can't be wrong...it was me (good lesson for the week). Went back to the intersection, figured out what I had done, and aimed for the car park.
This run felt so great. I felt like I was moving well. I felt light and smooth. And, at the end after my mistake, I ran especially fast to the car park because it was a pay lot and we had only paid for one hour. We didn't have any coins with us, so I basically had to mooch a pound off of a man in the parking lot when we got there. (I was quite happy that I still can sweet talk a man into paying my way.:-))
When we got to Glasgow, we picked up the rental car and began another harrowing first day of driving on the left. Not as bad as the last first day, but still pretty stressful, especially doing the four hour drive on no sleep. I resorted to eating carrot sticks to try to stay awake. We also stopped at The House of Bruar, where I stopped last time. A wonderful place full of sweets, food, coffee, tea, various shops. I only got a latte to try to hold off the sleepiness.
After quite a delay through Nairn, we finally made it to our cottage in Dyke. It's quite cute and quite perfect for our stay here. We dropped off our stuff and headed to Forres to watch the Sprint qualifier. Unfortunately, we missed most of the women, but did see and cheer for Ali finishing. Hung out with Peggy and Nadim and kids. Then ended the evening by heading to the Tesco for groceries. I have to say it's nice to know my way around and not be totally bewildered by everything. It makes a big difference.
We slept in today...until 10:00!! I guess I was really tired because that was 10 straight hours of sleep. Had a light breakfast and then headed to Culbin Woods for an easy shake out run. I had the map from the race here in 2013 and let Mikell take that; I was happy enough with just a run. I did go off trail once, though, and that was enough to get me a little turned around. I went through some thick woods, thinking I'd hit a trail, turn right to another trail, and then left to the car park. I did all that, but then I hit an intersection with the wrong numbered post. My first reaction was the trail map I was carrying was wrong and started going in the wrong direction, but after about 50 yards, I told myself that the map can't be wrong...it was me (good lesson for the week). Went back to the intersection, figured out what I had done, and aimed for the car park.
This run felt so great. I felt like I was moving well. I felt light and smooth. And, at the end after my mistake, I ran especially fast to the car park because it was a pay lot and we had only paid for one hour. We didn't have any coins with us, so I basically had to mooch a pound off of a man in the parking lot when we got there. (I was quite happy that I still can sweet talk a man into paying my way.:-))