Training Log Archive: jennycas

Event: Australian Sprint Champs (SILVA NOL)
 

I was taping my ankles on the train station platform waiting for Lauren's train to arrive in Benalla as it was only 30 min to my start (the train was 75 min late and luckily Susanne managed to arrange her another start), but I still had enough time to warm up. Which I needed because it was a bit of a running race. Very glad not to have been one of the first junior girls out there - the elephant tracks helped a lot. When I finished people assumed I'd stacked it because I had so much dirt on me from rolling under a gate which was quicker than climbing the fence around the oval. Happy with 13th but I cannot understand why the majority of my ranking points come from sprints when I am not a sprinter.

Very glad we made it to the model event in the Warbys because it takes me a while to get my head around Alex Tarr's mapping and I figured I'd need all the help I could get, having spent half an hour on one control at Barambogie in 2003.

A lot of people didn't make it to the model event, however, which led to a lot of discussions among the South Australians the next day, about how we can better coordinate the sprint/model events on the Friday next year. I guess that the sprint champs now has so many competitors that the starts need to run over a few hours, but we can definitely have a wider time window for the model event.