Training Log Archive: AC

Day 4 of Italy 5 Days. Not a great way to finish up the O part of the trip. Wonderful area with superb forest in the Lavarone area - it was the WOC long distance final area. Clean runnable forest with rocks but very steep. A chairlift ride to the start promised a downhill race, but still had 165m of climb advertised! I managed to stuff up the first 2 controls, which were the simplest of the lot for the week, losing 3 mins in total on them. Then never managed to get my act together for the rest of the course, running tentatively (esp downhill where I was very cautious despite the good footing in the forest) and stopping to check my map quite often, bleeding minutes rapidly. Stuffed up the long leg with a poor route choice and lost 4 minutes there. Wound up nearly 14 mins down on the winner and a good 10-11 mins behind runners with whom I had been managing to stick with the last three days.

Anyway, O is over now and on to the Dolomiti Superbike in Villabassa in the Italian Tyrol, just near the Austrian border. Superb country and weather looks like it will hold for Saturday Registered this afternoon after a 3 hour drive from the O event - very excited for my first mtb race - 60km, 1500m climb, superb views.