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murraystraining: November 2010
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Monday, November 01, 2010. Flying half way round the world, to a strange foreign land, for a week of sprint orienteering? Oh, go on then! When the opportunity to visit Beijing for a series of PWT races including the Chinese Championships arose I grabbed it with both hands. These are the opportunities that serve as small rewards for the hard work of the last year, and hopefully act as an inspirational springboard for the winter of training ahead. Inside the "Water Cube". However we quickly rolled up our j...
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murraystraining: November 2011
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Thursday, November 03, 2011. Marathon Debut - Wet and Wild in Snowdonia. And the Pentland Skyline. As a prelude to the OMM. This year I decided it was time to have a crack at the marathon. So the Snowdonia Marathon. As I mentioned one of the main reasons for entering the marathon. Was to enjoy a change of flavour in my training during the Autumn. Out were the track sessions and orienteering, replaced with a weekly long run and a “marathon-pace” tempo run on the canal towpath. I could have worried about t...
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murraystraining: How Was Your Run?
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Thursday, October 10, 2013. How Was Your Run? It’s probably the first question anyone asks after you finish a race – and it’s a question I think orienteers are particularly bad at answering. How was your last run? I’m no psychologist so I’m not going to postulate why orienteers are so negative. What I am is a math geek so here’s a formula for how orienteers might rate their run:. M = Largest mistake made, in minutes. M = personal factor for maximum size of mistake before writing run off. Greatest rival, I.
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murraystraining: World Games: The Races
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013. World Games: The Races. The first of three blogs on my World Games experience - my view of my races. Sprint: Easy and Hard, Fast but Slow. Sprinting. Photo: IOF. Excerpt of the Sprint map. 16 cost me a medal, I didn't notice the green dot in the rough open was separate to the green and turned in before it. Sprint map: without route. Middle map: part one without route. Part two without route. Part one with route. Part two with route. In Colombia thicket means THICK! I could bar...
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murraystraining: Tre Rifugi Mountain Relay
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Tre Rifugi Mountain Relay. Refuge #3: they were selling beer at 9:30am when I arrived. Maybe to help calm the nerves? The race, which is featured in the excellent “ World's Ultimate Running Races. Second leg basically traverses this rock face: not for the faint hearted! Robbie Simpson is spending the summer in the Alps and has been getting some great results including 5. Θ 0 θ 40°? Nice smooth track back to the valley floor. Not. The race is incredibly well supported and all the...
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murraystraining: NORT update: Knocked Out Before the Knock Out
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Thursday, June 06, 2013. NORT update: Knocked Out Before the Knock Out. After my moment of madness in the first sprint race things didn't improve much in rounds two and three of the Nordic Tour. I had a very "average" run in the Norwegian middle distance on Sunday then on Tuesday I failed to progress to the knockout stages of the knockout sprint. Map - no route. Map - with route. Map - no route. Map - with route. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Scottish orienteer and runner. I'm supported by Arc'tery...
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murraystraining: NORT part 2: I got that racing feeling
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Saturday, June 15, 2013. NORT part 2: I got that racing feeling. I remember when I first realised that orienteering was a race. An orienteering course. I just figured out what I needed to do and got on with doing it. I think I won that race, surprising a few people including myself. I went on to finish 2nd at the Scottish Six Days a few weeks later, my first notable success at a GB level. My orienteering career had begun! But first. JUKOLA! Maps with routes can be found in my map store here:. I'm support...
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murraystraining: January 2011
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011. Edinburgh International Cross Country 2011. Every January some of the World’s greatest distance runners descend on my home terrain for the. BUPA Great Edinburgh International Cross Country. This year the pre-Christmas snow meant that all the races in December were cancelled so I was missing a bit of race sharpness in the early stages. On the second climb Callum tried to get ahead of me but his attack didn’t last long, as I relaxed up the hill and rolled down the other sid...
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murraystraining: WOC 2013: I love it when a plan comes together
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013. WOC 2013: I love it when a plan comes together. 2012 Lausanne, Switzerland, the day before WOC Sprint. 2012 WOC Sprint result: 11. 11 seconds away from a top 10 result. Aw man, so close. Probably my worst WOC run technically but it was a tricky course and everyone struggled. Yesterdays plan scrapped. I’ve got to go to Finland, to have another crack at getting it right. If it’s a forest sprint then I’ll have to get good at forest sprinting. 2013 (today). Vuokatti, Finland. Of cours...
