Training Log Archive: Georgia

Just taking it easy to let this cold go away

Spring Challenge with Emily and Lara in Hokitika.
Second behind team Sophiegate so pretty happy with that. Quite far behind though.

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And now I have a cold. bleugh.

Decided the best way to deal with this cold was to smash it out with some orienteering right ftom the start and get it over with. No point letting it linger until Saturday. Will see how my totally unscientific approach goes tomorrow

Cruising round to Greig and Clares to drop off ice axes. Forgot stove.

Was all I could manage today. Feeling very tired when I got home. Had to lie down for a bit.

Food poisoning seems to have done wonders for my American weight-loss diet.

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Seem to have made myself sick over the weekend. At least I appear to have stopped throwing up now.

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A mission with the rabble up purple hill. Legs feeling a bit tired even just on a cruisy walk. Low volume training week this week

Serious wedding orienteering. Race of the year.

Less pathetic but still woefully slow

Emergency spring challenge rain training

Cruising round Albert town mtb loop with Alex and Angus. Feeling good after yesterday.

Cairnmuir rogaine with Angus. Wasn't sure how this would go not really knowing Angus at all and having to do all the nav. Went ok though. My route was a touch ambitious and hence inefficient. Should have dropped the loop at the start in favour of big points at the end so ended up with a score a couple of hundred short of where we should have been (for distance and climb covered).

I was having another great day. It all felt easy for 12hrs but I never really pushed hard. Ate well but still carried too much food.

Angus did good. Quite a bit slower than I wanted to go but he always just went his own pace so didnt break. Seemed fine at the end though so maybe I should have pushed him a bit harder. I tried to get the pace moving a bit sometimes but he never seemed super keen to try and keep up.

Unfortunately got beaten by Nathan and tied on points with Ian.

Gps rekons 54 kilometers and 3500 climb. I would have said longer and lesd climb.

Was feeling tired and running late so went home and ate a big steak instead of going training. Excellent steak.

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Easy jog/walk up to the night nav with Boyd and Rob and back home after.

This all felt very chaotic tonight. Maybe running too quick for my navigation? Generally pretty terrible especially at the start when I got stuck bashing round in the bush for ages and then never even found the control.

So pathetic and weak. My poor little stick arms can barely even hold the paddle up for an hour. Hit the wall badly riding home tonight. More food needed. Hungry all the time.

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Approximately 30min of stairs waiting for glenn then maybe an hour over mt vernon and down rapaki with glenn and angus.

Suffering through work at the moment. Struggling to get over the post holiday depression

Mount cloudsley, mount enys loop with alex, glenn and chris. Nice sunny day in the mountains. Forgot sunscreen....

?Morning ride with matt la emily from my house up huntsbury round the traverse, lower flying nun, old duers andund down througthroughh vic park. FOgot some work to do on my riding skills!

SPring challenge training session 2. With just emilu selara.

Might go fir a kayak this afternoon to cotoomplete my transformation to kultiport gook

Might also do some editing on my computer as this ia getting ridiculous. Although kultiport gook is amusing...

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Beginners session at arawa. No one there to take it at first so followed hillary to the bridge then went back and got some very useful coaching.

This is getting serious

Worsleys spur loop. Again tried to run with chris most of the way up. Included an extra loop and a few run backs to meet thw others. Good run and goos hggGol cIccocktb . GHmvgm. Slm.

Something wrong with my phone...ccant delete...

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This run got away from me a bit! Up bowenvale then along the top to mt vernon. Down the valley track then the middle traverse of the spur of death and huntsbury. Felt like I had a tail wind pushing me up all the hills tonight.

Home via chris and ems to pick up my book that they have been holding ransom since the weekend.

Run to work. Takes me a long time to warm up in the morning these days, about 2k before I feel like I'm running properly.

Run home again. Amazing how much better I felt than running to work

Emergency spring challenge training.