Training Log Archive: Bomb

post easter hangover. so tired.

Easter day 3. Cold and windy, but a really fun area and cool courses. Started just as a freezing shower came through, but at least I was running then and not standing around. overshot 1 and bounced off the creek behind (which I think a few people did), and then made a parallel error on 3. I think kryso passed me here, and we ran into 4 together from opposite directions. from there we ran in rough contact for the rest of the course. kryso was running a bit faster, but wider and a bit hesitant into controls. pity I wasn't quick enough to pull us both along a bit faster.

Day 3 Course 2 - Splits

Easter long. disappointing race. I'd hoped for a lot better today given how I finished yesterdays race, but it never really came together.
lost a minute doing a double back on 2 when I second guessed myself, despite being really careful (and would have hit the control perfectly if I'd just kept going), then lost a minute each on 6 and 9 by going over the hill (instead of around), then around (instead of over). 2 more 2 min mistakes (16 and 19), and a big stack on a fence just after the spectator control wrote the run off entirely. very frustrating as a clean run would have given me a decent result, but more annoying that I couldn't control distractions on the course which caused significant irritation and led to big mistakes.

Day 2 Course 2 - Splits

Easter middle distance. Had high expectations of the course as Simon was the setter and it didn't disappoint.
I had a bit of a scrappy start through the first section in the hills and ended up too high on three controls which wasted a fair bit of time. got caught by Krystal on the loop through 5-6-7 which was a bit of a kick up the pants. got my shit together then and started hitting the controls a bit better and gradually pulled away from kryso in the second loop... although in the open terrain it was never going to be enough to get the 2mins back.

Day 1 Course 2 - Splits

Event: 2015 Australian Three Days
 

Easter sprint in Jamestown. Country town sprints aren't usually too interesting, but this was pretty good for genre. Some interesting control picking in scrappy parkland and a good finish in the school. Still a lot of straight out running which I'm not fast enough for.
I took a stack at speed running over a mound of dirt when I caught my foot on some wire and ended up face first in the dirt. got a bit flustered for a while and lost about 30 secs through the next few controls.

C • There were bike jumps in th... 3

long warm up to try and ease my hammy out. short warm down.

Elite Prologue Course 2 - Splits

hot yoga. lots of hip stretches and inversions. getting a lot better at forearm balances