Archive for May, 2006

Summer Series

Monday, May 29th, 2006

I am, somewhat optimistically perhaps, going to nine events in June. They are all local or district events - at this time of year, the vegetation gets too high in the remoter, bigger areas, to be able to hold regional or bigger events.
Four of the nine are low-key midweek evening events, involving jumping on [...]

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Ightham SAX District Event, 28 May

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

(Cross-posted from my training journal at Attackpoint.)
Brown course at Ightham. A really nice, quite technical area, tough going in places due to the late-May vegetation growth, but few brambles or nettles. I had a good race, although my general pace was a little slow, especially near the beginning as I was tired from biking to [...]

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Campbell Park SMOC British Sprint Champs, 20 May

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

(Cross-posted from my Attackpoint training log.)
Campbell Park is in the centre of Milton Keynes, providing an excellent venue for a sprint - the planners managed to avoid the infamous roundabouts. it was overcast and damp, but not raining. The heats were to the south of the park - the first half was through a housing [...]

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50-50-50 Goal

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

At the beginning of this year, I set myself the goal of doing 50 hours of orienteering, 50 hours of running/spinning training, and 50 hours of cycling (not counting commuting, but including cycling to events.) Today is Day 127 - or 17.4 hours in, how am I doing?
Orienteering: 17.6 hours
Running/Training: 10.1 hours
Cycling: 15 hours
A three-week [...]

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