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Sunday Sep 29, 2013 #
10 AM
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 1.5 km (13:20 / km)
shoes: VJ Sticky
Orienteering race 1:53:05 [3] 15.0 km (7:32 / km)
shoes: VJ Sticky
Aus Long Champs at Slap Up Ck. 23rd and well down on both Matt Crane's scorching winning time and where I think I should be finishing. Quite a disappointing result, especially after yesterday's good one. The first main story of the day were three big mistakes: 1:30 on #12 because I navigated to #19 by mistake, a massive 4:30 parallel error on #17 when I lost focus around some other runners, and another 1:30 at #15 when I just couldn't spot the damned boulder. That last error was typical of numerous other small mistakes when I didn't get it right in the circle, sometimes picking the right feature but not spotting the control, which accounted for another minute or so worth of errors.
The description of the forest areas as 'pleasant running' was a cruel joke or perhaps the author was a champion hurdler. I found keeping any sort of pace up in the deadfall really hard work and by time I screwed up #17 I was flagging badly. The gel I took at #16 kicked in for a while but I struggled to lift my pace to even moderately competitive levels. My hamstrings and calves were starting to revolt late in the course and I had to stop quickly a couple of times to stretch and ward off a cramp.
Feeling quite down about it - I'd thought with a fairly solid season of training I'd be more competitive than this. I'm not sure what I need to do to improve my long distance races ...
The description of the forest areas as 'pleasant running' was a cruel joke or perhaps the author was a champion hurdler. I found keeping any sort of pace up in the deadfall really hard work and by time I screwed up #17 I was flagging badly. The gel I took at #16 kicked in for a while but I struggled to lift my pace to even moderately competitive levels. My hamstrings and calves were starting to revolt late in the course and I had to stop quickly a couple of times to stretch and ward off a cramp.
Feeling quite down about it - I'd thought with a fairly solid season of training I'd be more competitive than this. I'm not sure what I need to do to improve my long distance races ...