Training Log Archive: Golfer

Big weather change today: cold and windy with patches of rain. Good start thru to 3 then got distracted by other runners (should be better than that by now!) resulting in major error (10+ mins) on 4. After sorting that out, was steady most of the way home, with a smaller miss on 11.

Didn't enjoy the end of the course which was 5 technically easy controls in and out of side gullies on the main watercourse, with just physical effort required to get up and down. Thought better use could have been made of some of the smaller gully systems to the north of the main channel to test navigation skills at the end when runners are fatigued (as was done nicely on Day 1).

Overall fairly happy with result as I knew I would be well off the pace given current physical issues. Frustrated by stupid errors on Days 1 and 3 that I shouldn't have made at the pace I was going.

Day 3 Course 9 - Splits

Managed to keep it all together today with no real errors apart from being slightly off on 12. Conservative on both the longer legs, climbing across and around to the south thru the saddle on 7-8, then around the watersourse NW and up the 2nd watercourse to the saddle on 9-10. Happy with time as I knew I would be slow.

Day 2 Course 9 - Splits

A good clean (but slow as expected) run through to 12 then managed to stuff up 13, 14 and 16, losing about 8 minutes all up on comparable runners. Fatigued and bad map reading towards the end of te course.

Good course, best of the 3 days, with a good navigational challenge at the end (which I pretty much failed!).

Day 1 Course 9 - Splits

Event: 2015 Australian Three Days
 

Easy jog around Jamestown after 7 hours in the car, driving from Hay this morning.