Training Log Archive: Georgia

Sprint training somewhere in launceston

Walking up to the top of Legges tor

Training at little childs creek

Sprintervals around Beckenham in the morning.

I am so unprepared for the World Cup. O well. Best to just go have a holiday in Tasmania.

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An uneventful stroll back down the now crossable Clyde.

A trip into the little visited Kirk Stream. More exciting adventures including Chris stuck up a cliff learning the lesson that taking his pack off was a bad idea, a slip sliding snow grass decent, a crossing of Cross Bow Saddle and a extremely high speed trip down the Sinclair.

Amazon Peak remained to be climbed another day as time ran short (not unexpectedly).

Over McCoy Col and down to camp by Lyell Lake. More raging torrents and bush basing.

Into McCoy Hut, well actually only to campsite just across the raging torrent of McCoy Stream.

Much matagori bashing and traversing to avoid crossing the Clyde River. One small swim crossing the Lawrence.

Good long paddle tonight. To the bridge by arawa and back.

Epic head wind to owles terrace and cruise back to work

Had a shit day at work.

Went for a lovely run at Orton Bradley up to Big Rock, Magnificent Gulley, Hunters Gulley. Feeling awesome.

Forgot about shit day at work :)

C • Is this bad day related to ... 2

Hog's Back, Cragieburn exploration. Awesome single track riding.

O training at woodend

Run up Mt Thomas. Felt like this took a long time...

Quick evening ride up Rapaki and around the traverse.

Feeling remarkably good today. Legs and feet seem all OK. Probably will even manage a run tomorrow :)

Event: New Zealand Rogaining Championships
 

NZ Rogaine Champs with Greig.

A bit of a disappointing course with not enough controls and reasonably straightforward navigation. We planned a good route (although I think we got 85 the wrong way on reflection) and started out very fast.

I think my legs got a bit smashed with all the fast running so after about 4.5hours I was a bit worried that things were not going to go very well. Felt a bit better after some food for the next 5.5hours but then pretty much hit the wall.

Eating went very very badly for me in this race. Pretty much only ate gels for the entire thing. I kept not being able to eat then hitting the wall, eating a gel then coming right and then repeating the cycle. A horrible way to do things and if I had been able to eat better things would have been much happier. I wasn't even feeling sick it was more that I was being lazy and not eating.

Full credit to Greig for dragging my sorry arse up the hills for the last 10hours.

On the positive side, I'm fairly sure that other than at Worlds, I've won mixed open at every rogaine I've done this year. Can't complain too much about that but am still a bit disappointed with Worlds results. I will have to try and set some less results based goals for next year.

Nav was much better than in Australia but it was much easier. Looking forward to doing a tough technical 24hour rogaine again but the only one on the horizon is Finland which (a) seems a long way off (b) would be expensive and (c) I need a team for

C • You are amazing Georgia. Yo... 1

Takahe to kiwi. Feeling good. Long may it last.

C • I hope you haven't peaked 3... 4

Easy Monday night run.