Training Log Archive: WillRigg

Perfect recovery with angus, Hit with him and then played a few tie breaks. Think I tweaked something in my glute on last day of scottish, easing up now though.

Day 6-4th
Loved the area, and felt physically strong all the way. Solid run with an early start, mistake after the road crossing-didn't picture it right but relocated quickly(1m) and a smaller mistake 20s on 24 was just too high, but realised quickly.

So good technical performance but actually lost some on routechoice,was to safe on 1 and went round the path(30s) on 10 and 11 didn't invest enough time planning- lost 1m 40.

Got beaten to 3rd place by 1 second and so knocked down in overall rankings.Good finish to the six days,winsplits puts me first with time without mistakes and with an early start on an area tracked up lots, obviously running well.

WU and then 1k cool down.

Day 5- 6th

Start with the positives a lot of legs running and navigating smoothly lots of top 5 splits. However head not really in the game for this one and not taking in enough detail, only day I messed up no.1 - 50 sec mistake! great after that but once I was back in the game, messed it up on 12- parralell error(2m 20 lost) great approach to control and everything fitted but to arrogant to relocate quickly! lost a top 3 place here, but ah well better keep going and enjoy the lovely area actually got myself refocused and within a minute of second place but then got sloppy near the end.

Love this area and could of easily done great but didn't have the right focus and appriach to the race, ahh well, will beat this forest another day ;)!

Massive WU as big walk to the start. no CD; didn't feel like I would gain from it as sat down to much after finished.

WU and CD.

Day 4- 3rd

Really Great Run,steady orienteering,strong running in the terrain and mistake-less.Did the basics right and kept it simple, but silly time loss on routechoice lost 55 seconds by going straight through the green to 8, wasn't even thinking about going to the crossing point! Only other time loss was some hesistations on 11 and start of leg to 14, and running through semi open to 5.

Very pleased with this race, another early start but didn't let it affect me! Bit annoyed that someone in particular(we all know who) who decided to change his start time, could of been first Brit this day but ah well.

Good to watch the euromeeting!

Nice easy run with Joe around the forest and down to the river, good chat about things and good to chill and watch the sprint later in the sun.

WU to the start and CD.

Day 3-15th

Don't really know what happened today badly effected by very early start lots of heather to bash down, thought it was going pretty well until 18 my ownly mistake of the course-lost 2 m 30, getting tired and messed up end of leg. However looking back all my splits are extremely average and considering my current form the only thing I can blame it on is the early start which is unfortunate in a selection race! But also after analysis race with Joe who also had same problem I did loose a lot on routechoice aswell; poor entry into control 2, not staying of path, 11 went straiight instead of path route and 15 went through the hashed hilly open very bad idea. also lost time on 8 because the control was missing and spent time looking for it. maybe up to 3 mins lost on routechoice then, but only explanation why other splits are bad is late start time. Lots of variables in this race, but some of them I could of controlled! could of been about 6th in controlled technical side of race.

Enjoyed this race but annoyed to be beaten by lots that I normally beat.

Day 2-2nd

Great race,pretty good technically and great physically... and beat dane by 1 second(oh the pleasure!) Felt really fast in first section, having a late start made running much easier the only time I had this all week! Nice area made some misses and hesitations that cost me the win: 1m30 in total. But only 10 seconds behind Joe so I'll take that!

WU and CD with the boys

Event: Scottish 6 Days
 

Day 1- 12th

Arghhh so close to a solid race I wanted to do get out of the first day, steady start, bit steadier than I wanted but started to get going nicely. Did mess up the long leg right at the start though,came out a weird angle from the semi open-had to relocate.. and then overshot at the end of leg. Brought it back together again though got into 5th position and then would of been on for 3rd if I hadn't lost 4m 30 on the easiest control in the world. Lost concentration and literally turned into a headless chicken! why didn't I just follow my compass instead of getting distracted by loads of runners and not bother relocating.

boo hoo!

WU and CD

Easy with Dane and Joe from accommodation to refresh the legs.