Training Log Archive: Olly

After 5 attempts kieran eventually woke me up at 6.30 . Took me about 20mins to get ready and we were on the road just before 7. Legs were pretty tight still but not too bad. Left big toe was rooted from a blister underneath the nail. Got a nice cruisey route out to the east which was reasonably flat and minus spinifex. Found two controls in the completely wrong spot(so much for the vetting). Was planning a bigger loop to get an extra 150points but thought we were cutting it a bit fine so cut it short. Had about half hour to spare when we got back. Finished 26th out of about 125 teams overall, 2nd in the university comp and first in the youth/U23's. Hadn't seen John after we got back so thought he was dead. He ended up getting put with this animal who has won it a number of times and who had planned a 93km course for them to do. Had seen him at 9pm the night before and he was screwed then but he managed to slog it out and got somewhere over 2200 points. Nice work buddy.

Event: Australian Rogaining Championships
 

Aus Champs Rogaine. Wasn't feeling to crash hot when we started mainly from the epic yesterday and also from not having much breakfast. Was starting to stuggle about four hrs in and the spinifex was killing me but after about 7hrs everything started feeling better. Was pretty hot during the day but was worth it with the spectacular scenery. Kierans got a good description of it. Lost a bit of time in the dark on a couple of controls from tiredness and weird things happening with the map. But probably lost 1hr-1hr and a half max so not too bad. Got back to the hash house via a massive gorge at 3.45am. Smashed down a cup of pumpkin soup and a lot of cheese toasties.

Got up at 4.20am to get taken to the airport at 4.45am. Got the flight to Cairns alright. Boarded the plane to alice at about 11.30 but after 20mins got turned round due to a monitoring problem. Took them forever to figure out the problem and eventually boarded 8 hrs later at 8pm. Got to the event at midnight and had to set up the tent in the dark. So it took 20hrs to travel from ipswich to alice springs. Mission and a half.

Legs were sore from intervals yesterday and the top of my calve just behind the knee was sore. Eventually it packed in at work tonight and now am limping. Perfect timing for an injury with the Aus rogaine this weekend. Hopefully it'll fix up by then.

C • 'packing it in' 6

6x 1km with 2min recovery at uni with Duncan. I actually thought i had some half decent fitness at the moment but obviously not. Wasn't feeling to bad after the first one but was dead by the third . Couldn;t stride out or anything. Think i use to run round 3.20 or under back in the day. Duncan was running round about 3.13 for each one. Times were 3.33, 3.44, 3.56, 4.06, 3.59, 3.52