Training Log Archive: Jay-T

SYO Tankersley Middle.
Kept it pretty clean today; no significant time losses confirmed by my almost arrow straight progression graph.
Unfortunately the angle of said graph was more akin to a plane dive bombing into the ground rather than one coasting in to land.
19th place, just under 6mins down.

Event: British Night Championships
 

A pleasant hour and a half was spent searching for flags in a dark pitted woodland.

Main errors:
#3 In trying to avoid climbing the hill too much, I ended up too low on the edge of the grot. 30s
#7 Left path after the first enclosure, but initially searched for the control believing it to have been the second one. 1m
#8 Thought ‘this looks difficult, I need a safe route here’ and promptly just ran off in the general direction as usual. Lucky to relocate as quickly as I did. 2m
#14 Running with Alex Rothman here and we took the wrong path. 30s
#20 Took a high route and got stuck in some undergrowth. 1m
#21 Took the path which wasn’t necessary at the start of the leg. Overshot by one hole at the end of the leg. 30s
#25 Was on line for the control but then decided I wasn’t and bailed out to the path. 1m 30s
#33 Probably would have helped if I’d looked at my compass here. 1m 20s
#36 Took the wrong path then aimed for the wrong building. 1m

Around 9m of obvious errors but on this occasion enough to place 10th, 16mins down.
Not a bad result but annoyed with the mistakes I made.
Didn’t take a single bearing... (nothing new here)

C • 'I need a safe route here’ 1

Bit of a dead session.

Match vs Manvers Park B playing with Alan.
Lots of very close games tonight; most went to three ends and could have gone either way.
In the end Brent / Mick picked up three, Andy / Alex picked up none, and Alan and I picked up one.
Overall 5-4 loss.

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