Training Log Archive: simmo

Event: Karrak Karnival - Oz Champs
 

Event: Karrak Karnival
 

WA State Champs at Spice Brook. Lost 30 secs here and there, and 3-4 mins at 5 where I made a good route choice but lost concentration and messed up the final approach. 4 mins behind the winner, but less than a minute off 2nd. Could have taken that, as the starter wanted to send me off a minute early, but I demurred.

WA Long Champs, Course M65A - Splits

From Fays Bay with Virpi.

Around the island, first to Thomson for coffee, then West End. Back via the lighthouse, which we climbed, the guide knew Roy Hiller. Then to Parker Point and into Thomson again for pies at the Bakery.

Ride from Fays Bay to little parakeet, parakeet, little Armstrong, then Oliver's hill, Thomson, Kingstown, Thomson, Bathurst, Basin.

Event: FootO - Marginata
 

H3 course at Marginata. A few legs that were pretty ordinary, and controls on rocky ground and boulder field. No. 2 in particular (rocky ground) was real bingo, and Ceri caught me there, then we both took 3 or so minutes to find it. The next leg was across a parrotbush wasteland, where I just managed to keep Ceri in sight and watched her go a bit wide in the gully down to the control so caught her there. The next leg could have been tricky, but I kept Ceri in sight for a while then she disappeared. Found a good rock surface to attack from, then set off back up the hill to the next. Ran into Ceri half-way up the hill, still looking for 4, didn't see her again. 6 was a difficult one, had to be very careful and drifted a bit low but corrected reasonably efficiently. Very slow on this leg due to steepness, very stony ground and fallen timber. 6 to 10 were all good running legs, but without much navigational challenge, then it was back uphill in rubbishy ground again for the last, where I stopped a bit short and searched too far left. 3 minutes behind the leader again, 2 behind Alex Tarr, and Ceri recovered to beat me by 9 seconds.

H3 - Splits