Training Log Archive: coady

Event: Sydney Metro League #4
 

went camping the night before, thus had time to prepare map, read course setters notes, go to briefing and start on time .. weird feeling!

not a good start, broken compass after 45 mins, fell on slippery ground while the compass found the only rock nearby and shattered in about 20 pieces, brought spare moscompass to see how it would be on a rogaine
(found the SILVA thumb compass to be much much better for orienteering, but the moscompass wasn't as bad in a rogaine)

Excellent map (think orienteering map at 1:20k)
it was amazing running a rogaine with such confidence in the map, with features and controls where you expected them to be !!!
went with Alec Deslandes, we both ran well for 4 hours then Alec started to tire, we walked a bit in the 4th hour, picked up the pace again in the last 1/2 hour.

everyone we saw looked like they were having a great time

met Mounty and Glenn Horrocks 3rd last control (they were looking a little tired) saw them running down the wrong spur to the second last then up a wrong gully, they caught up to us at the control, watched them dissapear to the last control, then reappear as we got to the last control. it was nice to compete with the elites (and winners) on a few controls, we "let" them race ahead of us at the hill at the finish.

finished the race 1790 / 2400 points
4th in open men
5th overall

got a DG-200 GPS logger to see how it fared ..
testing gave me the GPS track on the native software but no quickroute..
aas able to manipulate the data file to get a working GPX file ..
will to a qiuckroute or routegadget if avaliable.
saw some people with garmin GPS devices .. not sure which events you can and which you can't take them on ..

C • Congratulations 4

Cunning Running @ 2km from home, couldn't resist the temptation to run .. warmup for tomorrows rogaine?

planning to take it relativly easy, but managed to get a decent pace and kept it steady (for me that is)

one control was missing (thanks for the warning Nerise) got all controls with 2 minutes to spare, 3 minutes behind James

very good course with difficult route choice decisions, a little wet :)

cycle down the M7 for 65 mins and back in 60 mins