Training Log Archive: Bertbennett

Lower calves still feeling it a bit after the weekend. Ice n compression should do the trick.

Sledging Macey as he made his way around the course.

Park series final. Calves sore so didn't push it too much. Don't have precise distance because I forgot my watch. Won the highly sort after trophy for another year.

Long - Splits

Felt weird running on a surface that doesn't give way when you step on it... Feel like I have a lingering cold and sore muscles from the weekend.

Final public race as well as a little running around the map afterwards with Shep. I kinda wish I'd picked up a different course and run it afterwards.

When I went out after my course I ran in my Nike Pegasus. I was actually amazed how much easier it was to run on the sand in those shoes than the shoes I'd raced in all weekend. The bigger footprint seemed to give me so much more push-off than the thin salomons. Not particularly happy with how I went on the course today but it was more of a concentration thing than anything else. I don't think my head was in the game after yesterday and so I kinda just chose lazy routes and didn't really check the map enough and didn't have techniques or plans made. On the controls that I did have a plan in place I nailed the control so it seems like a case of just needing to have the mental discipline to have a plan for every leg and keep contact etc. The dunes are much less daunting to me now than they were a few days ago that's for sure.

Probably my best run in a NOL to date. I managed to navigate through the hustle and bustle on the first two loops which was tricky, then just tried to stick to the back of the first few guys on the last loop. Simon was doing fine with the nav so I just kinda thumbed the map and made sure I knew where we were and where we were going but didn't put any effort into planning routes. Lost the front bunch around 2/3 of the way through the last loop as they were just running a bit too fast for me. At that point I was physically exhausted so it was super hard to keep mentally in the course but I kinda managed that. In the end I made a couple minor errors towards the end but I held off most of the chasing pack. Came in 6th. Pretty happy with that effort. (I think my really narrow shoes actually made running in the sand way harder than it needs to be so I've got a few plans for NZ).

First time on the Tassie dunes. Took it super slow. This race I didn't use my magnifier and I was regretting that. Actually fairly clean for the first part of the course but I was struggling physically with the sand. 2nd half I kinda fell apart. It's really frustrating because I think if I did this course at the end of 3 days in the dunes I would have been much much more competitive. Anyway! It's all practice in the bank.

Quick little role around 7 mile beach to get the legs moving before my race.

Trying to decipher the sand dunes on the warm-up map. Glad everyone else struggled with one of the map sections. In the forest the running actually feels super nice. Struggle is to keep contact.