Training Log Archive: 007

Wow..I figured out how to sync my watch to my phone and it automatically enters training to Strava and AP!! Not sure if I’m a fan of that or not yet..

Legs are so sore from the weekend but I really wanted to explore from our camp in Mundulla - it’s so special that this town is surrounded by lovely native woodlands, highly recommend it as a camp stopover just off the Adelaide-Melbourne road!
Saw a man out taking his tortoise for a walk..

C • tortoise for a walk.. 5

C • Mundulla! 2

Aus Relays, second leg after Bridget had a really good run on first leg. I didn't have a good run - in hindsight I think I went out with quite a negative mindset and defeatist attitude about how sore and unfit I felt after the long race. Physically felt spent and couldn't 'push and HR was no where near as high as yesterday. Technically made quite a few errors in the goldmining (esp 1, 10) - mainly struggled with keeping direction and orientation and was extremely put off by the lack of north lines. I guess at least that means I do use my compass..
Route:
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Australian-Relay-Ch...
Results:
https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/ResultL...

Felt really nauseous about an hour after the run and massive headache in the evening.

Aus Long distance champs, Nuggety Range out of Maldon. So tough and so long!! Physically I was in survival mode - I started pretty conservatively because I knew it was going to be a long outing but I did push hard and I’m really just happy I made it round.
I found all controls cleanly, maybe because I wasn’t going very fast but also there was a lot of tracking in the grass in the rocky area and the control placements weren’t too hard.
Not happy with my route choice on the long leg to #16 - initially I thought around to the right was the obvious way but then counted the contours and saw it was pretty much equal and left was shorter and I didn’t want to do any extra distance.. but the steep hill at the start was brutal and very slow.
Also should have taken the track to the left to #19 but I didn’t look that wide even though I thought I was being smart going relatively wide left.
Overall happy to survive and have a pretty clean run, but also so miss being fit. Knee was still a bit sore and unstable walking but was no problem at all running.
14th, 16 mins behind Grace. Mostly of that on running speed.

Route (GPS wet missing for a bit):
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Australian-Long-Dis...
Splits:
http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

Event: Australian Orienteering Champs Pt 2
 

Right knee not really functioning, can’t walk normally without sharp pain and adjusting my walking subconsciously to manage. Just hope it will magically be ok when I start running (which it often does)..

Short morning run in Frankston before work

C • Yay! 2

I think I would do more stretching if we had a TV..