Training Log Archive: Brooner

S6D - Day 6 Glen Affric - C31 - Splits

S6D - Day 5 Glen Affric - C31 - Splits

S6D - Day 4 Darnaway - C31 - Splits

S6D - Day 3 Darnaway - C31 - Splits

S6D - Forres Sprint - 1 - Splits

Day 2, strathglenfarrar
Really terrible orienteering by me today, didn't get to grips with vegetation and again failed to follow bearings, both of which should have been inconsequential given the amount of available contour detail. First fail was at 2, faffing away half a minute in the circle, then a few minutes on 3 being high on the hillside above the control. 5 was the nightmare though, just couldn't place the shapes and didn't trust my compass so ended up way west, in deep bracken, losing over 4 minutes, then ran over the top of 8 without spotting the control on two occasions, losing 90s on a 100m leg. Ok from there on, good on the long leg to 11 but not confident around the circles generally.

Probably 8 minutes dropped across the course through mistakes, would have still left me 8 down, but happier.

C • what happened? 2

S6D - Day 2 Strathfarrar - C31 - Splits

Day 1, Achagour

Struggled to get into the map, was bang on for number 1 but didn't trust myself losing close to a minute in hesitancy. Slowly got into it after that, with some good splits (aside from marsh slog to 6) before missing at 10, the first of my compass failing controls of the week heading down the slope too far west. Then a string of poor controls, missing stupidly in the circle at 13 & 14 plus the long track route for 14 wasn't worth it, then leaving 15 in the wrong direction. Ok round the final loop though could have been more direct to 18.

Easily dropped 5 mins in mistakes, but somehow had my highest finish of the week in 11th.

S6D - Day 1 Achagour - C31 - Splits

Cruise round the beach, Fishertown, links to check the arena and then high street before home.

Trying to warm up post sprint watching.

"I finished first at the world championships in my home town" < a factually correct statement, nobody need know that I was first for maybe ten minutes, and the race was for spectators...

Nairn open sprint - red, 5th place, 1 min down.

Since WOC was announced with Nairn as a potential venue, I had obviously been looking forward to the opportunity to run round my local hood for a long time. On the whole I made the most of it, a pretty clean run bar a couple of silly errors, speed was the main sticking point but could have knocked 25s off through mistakes.

Course was pretty straightforward (as I also thought the relay was, bar a couple of legs) and the time loss came from concentration rather than much else - I certainly benefited from home advantage, knew what things in the streets & park would look like and could keep a decent pace up, then in the dunes just had to be sensible - although the barriers kept you on your toes to avoid traps, as did a number of gaps which were open for WOC but not us.

S6D - Nairn Sprint - Men_Red - Splits

Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days