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Fell Run

Had to pick George and his Tohunga team up from Carelton in the Cleveland hills, so went early and had a run in the fells with Iris. Did ~13k with 530m of height gain from the car park at the top of Clay Bank and got caught in a few showers (including some hail!) in 90 minutes. Lovely run in beautiful scenery; must revisit!

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Bike Training

75 mins training on turbo as scheduled. Legs felt a little fatigued after the weeks efforts

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Mountain Biking

Arrived at Psyclologic off the Leeds Road to join up with their regular Wednesday evening rides, to be told that this was one of the few occasions in the year that they weren’t riding from the shop but were riding in Ilkley. I was a bit snookered as I had ridden up to the shop, until another chap turned up who also was intending to ride. This chap and I both looked at each other rather quizzically until we realised how we knew each other (he is a client of ours!).  Richard very kindly offered me a lift and we hot tailed it over to Ilkley. 

We set off ~7pm from the centre of Ilkley and headed straight up towards Ilkley Moor. We had a fantastic 3 hours or so of mainly single track riding with a good bunch of guys. Some of it was a bit challenging in the dark for the first time and it got a bit chilly towards the end with the stop / start as the wind picked up, but a thoroughly good blast. Felt strong and was able to hang onto Matt’s wheel for a fair of the ascents (but he was much better technically).

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Compass Trophy Orienteering

Harry, Fred and I represented our orienteering club, Claro, in the Compass Sport Cup (an inter-club) competition held at Bramham Park. Harry and Fred had been selected to run Orange and me Brown. This was Fred’s first solo attempt at an Orange and my first attempt at a Brown.

Official results here.

We all had a great time in beautiful weather in lovely woods. Harry did really well coming 8th out of 49 in a time of 24:56. The winner came in at 19:43 but him and the runner up are both in the England squad! He also scored maximum points on the orange course for Claro.

Fred did fantastically; there is a significant step up in difficulty between White / Yellow and Orange – the controls are much better hidden and the navigation between them isn’t solely on paths. He had a bit of a mare on control 5 (funnily enough this was the same as my control 7 which I properly messed up) taking more than 40 minutes, but he still secured 76 points for the club and now there is no looking back to the easier courses.

I had a great run and felt strong. Mucked up 3 controls with either navigational or route planning errors which cost me nearly all my time against the leaders. Still a good 100 mins of training, plenty of bramble scratches, my first brown under my belt and another few lessons learned.