Training Log Archive: Brodie Nank

Rare for a long distance but cool down > warm up. Partly because I had to line up for toilet for a long time and partly because I wasted 5 minutes putting my magnifier.

Easter Day 2: Long @ Hill Park Dale. 3rd place (+1:01 on Simon, +0:43 on Henry).

Tough day at the office. Technically felt on top of it for about 90% of it and physically legs felt good but breathing a little laboured - found it hard to get to that top gear.

A fun start to the day when I realised it was 1: 10 000 and I didn't actually need my magnifier. Turns out that my magnifier had also loosened, which meant it kept swinging out when I didn't want it (pushed it back about 50 times over the race..). Got so frustrated by it by control 6 that I tried to break it but my weak hands only managed to bend it so that it stayed out of the way long enough.

Technical reflection:
-Slow route to 6 trying to go too straight when I could have conserved height just off the line.
-Don't assume old people know where the control is (9) - they dont.
-if you are going to attempt str8 is gr8 (12) then don't get start thinking about the netflix you watched last night halfway to the control.
-when you catch someone you may actually be running faster than them so don't slow down and run with them (13, 14, 24)
-when the control isn't where you think it should be its not in the wrong spot , you're in the wrong spot (22)
-at the end of the course its probably even more important to concentrate than at the start (23, 27).

Very easy evening shakeout feat. tofu shopping.

M21E - Splits

Shakeout

Bit rushed as I chatted for a little too long..

Easter Day 1: Sprint @ Scotch College. 3rd (+40 on Australia's fastest orienteer).

Great area, great courses, good fun. Sprint is well on the bottom of my priority list this year but really enjoyed myself. Felt good physically but the course was so tricky and turny that I didn't waste myself, which I was also quite happy about given the long tomorrow. Wrong routes to 5 and I think 12 and small misses at 12, 16, 18, 23 and 26. All up only 30" loss so kudos to Henry who got be by 40 and lost some time himself.

C • Australia's fastest 6

Good length warm down followed by a nice stretch.

M21E - Splits

Easy shake out. Feeling a bit stiff after a long journey to Perth last night. When I realized start was 1030 this am thought I might have screwed myself getting in to Perth at midnight (2am Melbourne time) but surprisingly got close to 8 hours sleep thanks to the time difference.

NOL Sprint Relay - 2nd leg. Felt relatively good physically and navigated well for the most part except for choosing the wrong route to 12 when I didn't read the circle right (+23 on Simon for this leg, including into and back out of a tiny olive green line on map) and doing 20-22-21-22 (+22 on Angus who had same overall splitting as me). Hopefully I can blame both of these on not the most ideal travelling across to Perth (which is my own fault anyway).

Interesting forking used for this relay, with significant differences in times across variations. Not sure how even the splitting can be when some courses have 21 controls and some have 24. To make myself feel a little better for getting beaten by a good 1/3 of the field I have a cheeky look over winsplits:

1: A and B similar (at most A 5 seconds faster)
2: B 10 - 15 seconds faster
3: B 20 - 25 seconds faster
4: B 5 -10 seconds faster

I had AAAA, just sayin