Training Log Archive: simmo

Event: Quinns Rocks (Perth Metro Series)
 

Metro Series at Quinns Beach, short course.

Oceania Long Distance at St Helens. A bit further South of the 2012 Oz Champs areas, and featuring more granite with much less tin mining. The bracken is now much higher too. Didn't feel great warming up, and as soon as I started had no energy and couldn't get moving faster than a slow jog. 2,3 and 4 involved climbing and by 4 I was too stuffed to look a the long leg to 5 with any real interest so I didn't see the route to the right with cleared crossings across a series of choked creeks. Slogged through hundreds of metres of green and green stripe to the final two crossings near the control. There was a bit of a train by this time, and although barely above a walk I managed to keep it in sight until half-way through the next long leg, where again I didn't notice better alternative routes to the left and right.

No 'pink' legs on my splits (a rare occurrence), but lost time on every leg. Surprise winner who picked the good routes and had the fastest and 2nd fastest times on the two long legs.