Training Log Archive: nh

Training on Rimmer Road after Nationals. Ran out to a control and back, then had to redraw the map for someone else by memory

Did a short course and in the middle of it ran to the film set of Evil Dead to have a look around. Chased after Eugene and others pretending we were film crew yelling at them to get out the forest, and they freaked.

Ran 3rd leg for Wellington in the National Relay and caught up a couple of places to bring home the win again. Easy course and really fast. Had a clean run and enjoyed getting shouted at running through the spectator sections
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Ran in the forest with Ryan, Tim and Eugene because the forest was just so awesome

National Middle Distance. Course was invalidated because of the control descriptions but I would have placed 2nd if people hadn't complained. Had a pretty good run except for an error on 23 which was blown way out of proportion because of the miss-numbering of the codes.
Overshot 23 and ended up at 24, and because the codes were wrong I thought everything was fine and I was at 23. So I navigated to where I thought 24 was, when there were actually no controls there at all. In the end I came out at a track, relocated, and orienteered carefully to 24. When I got there I realized I had already been to that control, so sprinted to 23 and raced off to make up the time I'd lost. although I did loose time by my fault initially, it wouldn't have been nearly 6min as 23-24 was a 20sec leg.
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Ran with Matt to collect controls after the middle because the map was so much fun to orienteer on.

C2 - Splits

Nationals Long Distance. Came 2nd behind Matt. Had a fairly good run but didn't have the intensity needed to win, just slowed too much. I need to remember that it is a race and not training. Mean area for a long distance.
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2 - W21E M20A M21A M35A - Splits

Event: New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2012
 

Nationals Sprint at Kristin School. Started out really slowly and was way too hesitant in the beginning. Then I made a bad route-choice to 6 and Matt caught me by a minute. After that I started orienteering properly and we had a mint pace through Kristin.
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Mens Elite - Splits

Rest before travelling up to Nationals

4 x 1min at 5km pace with 90sec recovery, 4 x 25sec strides. Didn't record wam up or down. Did in bare feet and was fine