Training Log Archive: Parkino

a bit tired after the weekend and didn't want to encourage the cold so no Monday night run this week

Dales Weekend, Yockenthwaite
the rain and the wind arrived shortly before setting off to the start, but on the top it was worse with visibility down to 50m at times, it was an ordeal, others seemed to manage it better

4) the way to do this - in hindsight - would have been to follow a bearing 50m at a time, but I let myself get blown off course and decided I'd emerge from the peat bog/marsh and then head west until I found something ... well, I didn't really know when I got out of the bog and I didn't find anything, eventually relocated (I think I hadn't traveled far enough), but made another mistake misreading sandy ground as stony ground [10mins]
9) bif of pfaff working my way down to the control - I hadn't expected to descend quite so much [30s]
11) pit was higher than map suggests [20s]
14) almost overshot, hadn't descended enough, again [20]
15) aimed 20m too low [10]

beat Paul so honours even over the weekend

Event: Dales Weekend
 

Dales Weekend, Malham
not as fast as Paul had led me to believe, and plenty of climb, ran out of energy on route to 11, which only partly accounts for the 2mins lost (see below), definitely not feeling 100%

good course, mostly a route choice challenge

1) took it steady, reached edge of pavement to the left of control [20]
10) missed third crossing point high [10]
11) didn't see wide left route, which might have allowed me to keep up some kind of pace, my route would've been okay, but for cutting the corner and having to descend a steep slope [90]

7th, 8mins behind Carl Edmons, 2 behind Paul

slightly worse, but will it be only a mild one?

hee-hee, now ranked number 2 in DVO, by one point, but going head-to-head with Paul in the Dales this weekend so could be interesting, and after all, he's only eleven years older than me

C • Demographics 2

there was a bit of 'Birchen Edge' I hadn't set foot in ... until today

SYO Local, Big Moor
this was tough and it didn't help that my sinuses are blocked (going down with a cold)

was so preoccuppied with just making some progress didn't check my compass on the way to 2 and got horribly confused behind White Edge, very vague back there, but I found the thing (unlike Colin Smith) and stumbled my way through to 5 then home

feeling under the weather, tired, lethargic: the traditional autumn cold coming on? (no, thanks)