Training Log Archive: Bomb

long o on the old bullecourt/passchendaele maps from the 1982 aus champs. big loop around the doughnut, then a smaller loop through passchendaele. the pine forest has all been felled and re-planted and is now nice and runnable again, but the mapping is very old school - not wrong, but hard to interpret (any rock less than enormous is ignored - so some really rocky areas have nothing on the map).
started a few minutes behind neil, and passed him early on, but then nearly every control I'd spend a while in the circle trying to figure out the map, and neil would arrive just as I was leaving the control. ended up having a big search at 6, and neil eventually gave up, I found it after another couple of minutes. caught neil up again 2 controls later and the same pattern started again.
took a while to get going at the start, but pretty happy with how I was running. nav was a big off, but the 30yr old map didn't help. actually quite amazing how much the map hasn't changed - its mainly the mapping style that is a bit hard to interprete - treated it like a rogaine map at the end, which helped!
it was also a bit of a test to look at the area for a re-map for the 2016? aus champs - should be awesome! some cascades-like native forest, and lots of pine forest with granite.

camp champs at the qld junior camp, at sandy creek. running well, but forgot brain. wasted heaps of time on 5, and then a couple of other stupid mistakes. heaps of jumping cactus - stopping every couple of steps for a couple of controls, which really gave me the shits - probably got about 50 all up, and a few prickles got stuck in my feet - ow!

warm up, warm down and control collection

in the dark again, but nothing too freaky this time. worst thing that happened was the cable on my light coming out on the first downhill (a little alarming!). pretty tired this week, so struggled along a bit.

pushups - 22, 30, 20, 20, 35. managed more than the minimum in the max pushups at the end for the first time.

plod home from work. a little tired after yesterday's session.

intervals at the bbc afl field again. ~450m x12, with 30sec rec (60sec halfway). good session, a bit slow on the first couple, but once I got going it was heaps better than last week, and saved the needing to spew feeling for the last 2. easier and faster, so double win.
99, 96, 94, 94, 92, 94, ,92 ,94, 94, 95, 93, 93.

pushups 20, 25, 15, 15, 25

Dan has decided that he's doing the pushup challenge too, so did the test. 65.
then he did the same set as me, but with 60 max at the end.
now I feel like such a weakling!

James has started as well - he did 35.

C • I'm trying to convince Mega... 5