Training Log Archive: WillRigg

Such a lovely morning for it, nice Lakeland terrain to run in...bit faster than a normal recovery run but got carried away with the lovely conditions and great scenery. In a group of me Dane joe and tim. Not too sure on climb as garmin downloader is broke.

Session with Kim.

Found the camp generally helpful,love the lush gb kit... Rather tired now

Set off 6 minutes behind 3rd (Malachy) took over MDOC pretty quick to number 2, pretty easy orienteering 2 mistakes totalling of about 1m+ just scrappy but happy because I made the 6 mins up catching Malachy just before the field, knew he wouldn't be able to keep up with the pace so just cruised it in for the boys after not the best runs from bartlett and Matt, syo and dee were too strong but I think if we rejigged the team round we could have had a good shot at gold with great runs from Angus and Sam in the second team.

Beat Aidan by a second on the relay, cheeky!

Event: BOC 2012
 

British long championships
bad start 2 30+ mistake at 1 approached control from a differnt angle to what I thought and was stood searching 50m away from control circle of what I was sure was the right place, everything fitted but the feature further expectation I realised, long distance so not game over pushed on from there, then 6 took the worse routechoice in the world didn't realise you could cross the fence so in the heat of the moment went the long way around 2 30+ now that was pretty much taking winning today out of the game. pushed on hard from here though and was mistake-less. two scrapy amateur mistakes today. On a terrain that really suited me and a distance I'm good at I really should of done better today. 6th 3 minutes down on joe roughly

C • I'm guessing 9km was the ac... 3

WU with matt and adam, WD with dane and harry

Obviously disappointed with today race bad result,stupid mistakes, but positives to take out of it, gonna go out and enjoy it tomorrows relay, were the underdogs so not much pressure ;)

resting,great news that my back has started aching before boc...

Been selected for Nick Barrables Stockholm camp which I'm happy about!...but its a shame I'm in Norway with NWJS but thats gonna be good anyway and there is always next year!

C • Tour 2

With angus and adam for a cruise around ulverston and hoad, lovely weather for it. some really steep climbs felt good calves aching from wearing inov8s on road. stopped of at richard to look at maps for weekend.

Event: LOC Technical
 

Graywhaite- probably best area in England.
Lovely and technical, lost about two minutes in the brief open section just not keeping contact and not in control another 10 secs on 6- hesitation, 30 secs+ on 7 thought control was on a boulder and found a unmapped bolder but on further expectation it was a crag. Then got out of the green forset into the lovellllly open forset and got into the zone flowing well really good from 9-17. could of been faster 12/13 by about 15 secs, so only about 3m of overall sloppy mistakes...BUT then along with about twenty other runners I got lost to the finish. :( lost 3 minutes, don't know how just did but it was a common error ahh well. great area, positive from most of race. Think I was 2nd...

thought I could do a orienteering race without hurting myself, but rapped it right and the end cut my chest,face and really hurt my toe, nice and bruised might of cracked it dunno, still can run though and thats all that matters. Results: http://lakeland-orienteering.org.uk/uploads/2012-0...

been put in a team with bartlett and matt p for relays, Syo have dane aidan and zach....funny how zach is from Ebor and dane 5 hours down south, but ahh well might as well give it our best shot and get on the podium!

C • Mate you lot are fighting f... 4