Training Log Archive: fell

Event: AUS NOL Races
 

the day started with a small breakfast on the deck of Liggo's Boss's Noosa Beach Unit about 25 degrees at 8am.



Packed the cars at about 9.15am before heading off for sunny maryborough.


The night before; Bryan found this sign:





The event terrain was flat spur gully with some ssemingly random placed brown x's.



My plan for the race was to ignore all the other competitors, and run at a comfortable speed and run my own race.

I went out feeling good; the terrain was very open and didnt take much out of me. I spiked the first two checkpoints, but then lost it on the third, I don't know what happened, I must have imagined I'd already passed the gully. Assuming I had over ran the control I headed backward and wasted more time- I soon realised. that was +3min




the rest of the race was fairly smooth
until this horror alley:


8 to 9 I don't know what went wrong; I crossed the creek thinking I'd hit the broken ground once I'd climbed up the creek wall; I didn't find any, so I headed westward, using the other creek as my catching feature, still no sign of depressions or broken ground. After bashing around for a while I decided to relocate off that creek, still nothing. I decided to relocate off the creek I had crossed, as I headed down into the creek bed, there was the control, about 10m from the watercourse. hmmm.
+3.5min

I headed toward checkpoint 10 slightly dejected, as a few people who I had previously passed had caught me at this stage (I had stopped ignoring them by now). I was in control until I entered the creek before the checkpoint; I came out of it thinking I had headed too far to the north of the gully as I was crossing it, and in my slightly frustrated frame of mind I headed to the south hitting the larger gully, and running up it until I could see people heading to the start.
very frustrated at this stage. +5min

I legged it with the pack of slow qlders toward checkpoint 11. For some reason they all started to head up the gully on the other side of the creek. so me and Daniel Stott peeled off and went the right way.
lost about 15secs here.

was pretty disappointed with this run; I was running about jim speed, so I was happy with that seeing as my training has been pretty non-existant this year.



after the event we went and found the caravan park- me and bryan fell asleep on the way back, must have been the heat- he had a good time despite some mistakes.

Turns out almost everyone is staying at the same caravan park.

we all head off to dinner together; all you can eat for $7



went to the pokies. didn't lose any money though.

headed off to the trivia night, unfortunately for him, Blair was poached by the bushrangers table.
It was a 3 way race, Bushrangers, Pinestars, and Victoria/ACT.
We had a good chance with our specialist masterminds, Jim- master of celebrity gossip, Torgeir- master of Logic, Shep- master of accountancy, and Bryan- master of not speaking up.

Unfortunately Blair outwitted us all, even the New Zealanders who were cheating on two counts; 1. Having a copy of the answers, and 2. Marking their own sheet.
fortunately they decided to throw a few answers each round in order to avoid suspiscion.




headed home. New zealanders attempted sabotage by inviting us to drink with them. Ha Ha! what they did not expect was the calibre of a man like Torgeir; who drank all their Booze then went and bought them more; He then managed to pull Bruce around the course the next morning.

C • hey i heard on the grape vine ... 10