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Training Log Archive: markg

In the 7 days ending Feb 27, 2011:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Orienteering	6	4:44:40	14.29	(19:55)	23.0	(12:23)	580	10 /	12c	83%
Running	3	1:04:53	7.71	(8:25)	12.4	(5:14)	100
Strength & Conditioning	1	5:00
Total	9	5:54:33	22.0		35.4		680	10 /	12c	83%
[1-5]	7	3:43:33

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Sunday Feb 27, 2011 #

10 AM

Orienteering (Control picking) 44:17 [1] **** 3.6 km (12:18 / km) +75m 11:08 / km
ahr:149 max:174 shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

Another control picking exercise by Coach Anna, this time at Passchendaele. Started slow but navigating okay. Then completely lost touch with the map and got passed by Anna. I stopped to get some focus and managed to do the rest with focus and increasing intensity until I was just a bit slower than race pace and almost error free - just a couple of little wobbles near the end. The exercise went through some really nice parts of the map. It reminded me of Pearces Creek outside of Canberra.

11 AM

Orienteering (Pairs relocation) 47:00 [0] ***** 2.9 km (16:12 / km) +110m 13:37 / km
ahr:135 max:165 shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

A pairs relocation exercise with Anna. Unfortunately it ran through some of the shittiest vegetation on the map and wasn't very pleasant. Having had our fill, we skipped a few controls at the end, and took some tracks back to the car. My navigation wasn't at its best - I was finding the rock quite hard to read and not all that confident.

Saturday Feb 26, 2011 #

10 AM

Orienteering (Line-O) 20:00 [2] *** 2.0 km (10:00 / km) +65m 8:36 / km
shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

Line-O warmup exercise at Dalmoak. Orienteering fairly rusty. Grass at at Dalmoak and consequently the grass seeds are just diabolical! After making it 50m off-track, I was suffering from a thousand seedy points. The spiders were just as bad though thankfully the ratio of big f@$#ers to little ones was fairly low. New Slazenger O-shoes performed admirably. Their biggest fault appears to be some type of grass seed magnetism.

Running warm up/down 12:00 [2] 1.4 km (8:34 / km) +30m 7:45 / km
shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

Warm-up and jogging to the start of the control picking.

11 AM

Orienteering (Control picking) 45:00 [1] **** 4.7 km (9:34 / km) +135m 8:22 / km
shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

Several short control picking courses at Dalmoak, set by Coach Anna. Still pretty rusty at the start and was getting the shits with the spiders but I focused the anger and started to navigate better. I still made a couple of mistakes but was starting to feel more comfortable in the terrain.

1 PM

Orienteering 1:24:00 [0] ** 4.4 km (19:05 / km) +65m 17:47 / km
ahr:121 max:162 shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

Running around Wilmots Waterholes with Anna, familiarising ourselves with the terrain and looking for likely arena locations. It was pretty unpleasant with the grass so long at the moment but I reckon we can set a really fun sprint there. Found some nice blackberries.

5 PM

Orienteering 44:23 [3] *** 5.4 km (8:13 / km) +130m 7:20 / km
ahr:171 max:184 spiked:10/12c shoes: Slazenger O-Specials

After a stop at Stanthorpe Maccas for a quick and dirty refuel, we headed up to Brooklands Paddock for the BBB local event. I decided I couldn't be bothered with Night-O and instead opted to do the Red 1 without my compass. It worked out pretty well, only 2-3 wobbles (including a long vague leg where I decided I was justified in pulling my compass out of my pocket). I lost a bit of time at #11 but I'm sure there was something funny going on there, either I marked the control on the wrong boulder or there's an extra unmapped one nearby. The story of the day was cobbler's pegs, which were rampant. I finished looking like big foot with my legs and feet covered in a fur of seeds. I proceeded to spend 1/2 hour just cleaning of the legs of my pants. It will take some convincing to get me back here.

C • Convincing 3

Wednesday Feb 23, 2011 #

1 PM

Running 22:53 [3] 5.0 km (4:35 / km) +70m 4:17 / km
ahr:161 max:187 shoes: Asics DS Trainer 13

Short lunchtime run to test the Polar. It works but seemed to drop out a lot.

9 PM

Note

Downloaded Polar's HR data and unfortunately it looks like a duplo construction rather than a HR graph ...

Tuesday Feb 22, 2011 #

2 PM

Note
(rest day)

Just received my Polar back from battery replacement at the service agent after months without it. Looking forward to seeing where my HR is at. Unfortunately, getting the foot pod fixed was out of range of current funding.

Monday Feb 21, 2011 #

1 PM

Running 30:00 [3] 6.0 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: Nike Free 5.0 (grey/green)

Control checking for my event at Garden's Point in a couple of weeks. Stinking hot out. I got very sweaty. Hope it's cooler for the event. Achilles didn't like this much. Maybe it was the short bursts between control sites at relatively high speed. Then again, it didn't seem particularly bothered by the 400m repeats or the Mona's fartlek last week.

11 PM

Strength & Conditioning 5:00 [3]

3 x 20 Calves (double up, single down; two sets with straight leg, one set with bent. Ice on my achilles after. Trying to knock this achilles problem on its head before the NOL.

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