Training Log Archive: Bertbennett

Picking up controls. Someone had already picked up one of my controls which lead me to go looking everywhere for it! I was starting to doubt my sanity at points! Got back and found that the control was safe and sound, in the van. Classic. A glance at my strava account will show a hilarious GPS track where I went walking around looking for something that didn't exist. No strava segments there.. shame.

Looking forward to starting up training again after about a week and a half off due to illness/injury. Finally I can get started again preparing for teh Aus Champs!

So I am still in the last stages of a cold but I think it didn't seem to affect me too much. Calf seems to have recovered and didn't give me any troubles at any point despite pushing pretty hard up the hills. The mapping style is very different to the typical newcastle style, almost undermapped which means any feature on the map is quite obvious (Although certain things on the map didn't immediately stand out eg on the way to #8 I did not see any of the creeks supposedly next to the road). GPS route makes my #13 look really bad but I must qualify my mistake by saying that I was initially planning on exiting that way and contouring along but got captured by some lantana which funneled me in that direction as I kept running in an attempt to get out of the lantana. Ended up having to double back. Cost me a couple minutes which is annoying! I pushed super hard at the end in the mistaken belief that Toby had done a 42 minute run, only to find out he'd done a 46 minute run and had no reason to run so hard! The area is really enjoyable even being damp as it was. Shame it's so bloody far away!

Course Hard Long - Splits

Feeling pretty bad but should be able to run in the NOY tomorrow. Just a bit frustrating when all I want to do is get out and train!

Light rail related road works are going on outside. Exciting times! There may be light rail by the time I've finished my uni degree in a few years time.

C • Light rail? 3

Oh no! All the piss poor timing of an English batsman.

My leg felt alright yesterday during short exploratory trots around uni while walking to class so I decided it might be up to a little jog to the end of the break wall and back. The leg (I think I pulled a muscle in my calf last week) felt alright throughout and I just took it easy, as I want to be fit for Orienteering on Sunday.

Waves were crashing over the break wall so I got quite moist while running along. Pretty windy!