Training Log Archive: Tynomite

11:18 AM. St Helens. Burned 583 calories.
Course: M21 6.3 km 220 m
Last leg in the Southern Arrows Team for M21. REally felt like i was in for it after seeing how long some of the elites were taking. FatRat came in 3rd place Thought i was going to be in the final mass start, but Rory really impressed me on the second leg, he came through the specator leg in 6th spot but lost a fair bit in the final loop, still i was impressed. My effort was pretty poorly in both the navigation and the feet. I had a lot of problems with # 7 coming far too high up the rocky hill face and had no attackpoint or catching feature to guide. I enjoyed the spectator leg but was told later that i looked slow and completely stuffed - both true. I ran down through to #11 looking for the western most crossing point thinking that some of them mustn't be marked since i didn't find the previous one, but got through unscathed in a well trodden track. Turns out it was marked and the bit of tea-tree i was bashing through was in fact dark green and i soon found the creek and bashed back out to find the tapes of the actual crossing point. I was pretty sloppy with the navigation by the end, but was glad to finish and kinda had some fun. Wore the headcam again, but it stopped recording after 50' so i will try and post at least some of that view.

10:22 AM. St Helens. Burned 524.41 calories.
Course: M21AS 6.4 km 110 m
Kinda fun, kinda tough too. Started pretty slowly and tried not to blow the first couple of controls. Objective achieved. But i was going so slowly it wasn't long before i was passed by Seb. I folllowed him into a marsh crossing which saw us both getting more than our knees wet. I was really slow up the hills and really slow down the hills too with heaps of crap on the ground. I stuffed around a little bit in the light green and a lot a bit in the tin mining at the end. Not fantastically impressed by my fitness, but at least the coffee people made great Hot Chocolate.

Long 6 - Splits

2012 Australian Sprint Championships
10:40 AM. Bicheno. Burned 350 calories.

The rain came and didn't stop until we had pancakes in our bellies. This was heaps of fun and i felt i did pretty well on the navigation, the speed however was somewhat lacking. The speed was halved on the rocks, which i was not willing to lose any footing on, i don't understand how the top guys managed such good times over the rocks. I had a few little shakes and wobbles where i didn't read the control descriptions and wasn't sure of the feature, but lost very little time. Where possible i tried to avoid running on the rocks at all, i don't think this was a bad idea.

***Click the little blue circle to see the headcam footage from the race!

Sprint 1 - Splits

Morning Run
7:41 AM. Gowrie Park. Burned 378 calories.

A quick morning run up towards Mt Roland and back discussing how good it would be to own a farm house in Gowrie Park.