Training Log Archive: FernWerm

Event: Australian Sprint/Long Distance Championships
 

Sprint! I was one of the first starters, so there weren't many people out when I started running around. But this didn't stop me from having a collision about halfway around with a Vic girl head-on (we were both just heads-down running reading our maps and then 'smack'!). I have a decent bruise and sore shoulder - I hope she pulled up ok! I had a lot of fun. I didn't run very fast (I have done zero speed training), but I just felt relaxed and had fun. I often took a wide route around the buildings rather than go through, which possibly lost me a little time - but may have saved me from making mistakes. The main mistake I remember was from 5 to 6 I ran down the little alley next to a building not seeing that you couldn't get through, hesitated and went back (I could have continued around the corner and probably would have lost slightly less time - although the exit was covered by the control number on the map). Other than that, my main failing was not planning ahead. I could have been at least 1min more efficient if I'd actually thought about where I was going next, instead of just vaguely thinking that I needed to leave the control in a certain direction. Overall I was 7min behind the winner, Lizzie, and just over 4min behind Biddy and Bun. Pretty happy with that. :)

Warm up and cool down.

W21E - Splits

Course 2 - Splits

Feeling lazy. Thought about riding to work today, after picking up my bike last night, but thought that 'bike quads' might not be the best way to go into a sprint in Canberra tomorrow. Instead, the last few days can be called 'tapering'... :)

Feeling hungry and tired - so a rest day is in order! :)

Took my bike to the bike shop with the hope of riding it home tonight, but they're busy so it might not be ready before the weekend.

C • Belair tomorrow? 6

Putting out a few controls, warm up lap, then short sprint in the relay Biddy set, then cool down.

Run around the dene with Bridgemon and Troy. Nice.

Event: SA Middle Distance Champs - Moon Rocks
 

SA Middle Distance Champs

Had a pretty good run today - I thought the rocks were easy to read and it all made sense. I hesitated a bit to 6, and probably wasted a few seconds on several of the controls taking the wrong way around boulder clusters, then after 7 I headed for 9, as I had my thumb over 8. I realised after a couple of hundred metres and recovered ok, although I was a little discombobulated - probably lost a minute or so there. On the way to 9 I was probably a bit too hesitant going around the rocky hillside, but I should have trusted myself as my plan of attack worked well - another minute or two lost. I also hesitated a little to 14, thinking I'd been there before and trying to work out how I'd gone wrong in the criss-cross pattern our controls made on that part of the map, but it turned out I was mistaken and I hadn't mispunched. I stopped after 15 to have a drink and did my best to power home, but to be honest I didn't have a lot in my legs!

Still, pretty happy with my navigation (although I have no idea how Bridget did this 12 minutes faster - she is amazing!). I remember not so long ago when rock maps used to freak me out. :)

Running to the start, running to collect start markers and jogging around to pick up some controls afterwards.

2 - Splits