Training Log Archive: Bomb

Long race (hagaby) at collins creek.
my motivation and expectations for this race were awesomely low at the start of this race, and I just figured I would cruise around and try to avoid to many stupid mistakes in the lantana. I mostly succeeded, but long splits on the first two loops meant that I was well down on the pack for the first part of the course... then I came in off the third loop to find I was in second, but only just ahead of Jasmine and Aislinn. stuffed the first control on the last loop, and could see Aislinn getting closer (helped a bit by Kas on the M20 course). tried to stay ahead, but my legs were completely dead, and a little wobble on the final control meant that Aislinn ran straight past. oh well.

still the best NOL result of the year (although a severely depleted field), and the cyclones girls won again!

running around organising the second NOL sprint at UQ. big day, but all worked out well in the end.

we got to the uni quite early to put out controls, and encountered our first attempt at an event ending crisis - the road through the area which had the early part of the courses was closed and a crane was loading building materials on to a building roof. fortunately they promised to be gone by lunchtime, and wouldn't impact on the event.
as we were putting out controls we found a bunch of other fenced off areas - turns out saturday morning is a hive of activity for contractors at the uni, but there was enough pedestrian access around the building areas that it wasn't going to disrupt runners.

things went busily, but smoothly for the rest of the morning (even found time for lunch!!), but when runners started coming in it became apparent that there was a problem with the controls. it took us a little while to figure out, including a run around the potentially offending numbers, but still no joy. eventually we figured that it was swapped SI units - 68 and 89, that we hadn't noticed when putting out the controls. fortunately Tim could just swap them in the computer and it was all good for the rest of the event.

The elite race went really well - the start worked fine and the races were exciting, and it seemed like most of the runners really enjoyed the courses. Very happy that it all worked out well in the end and to be finally done with NOL organising duties (for this round at least!).

Also great to have so many people come to dinner afterwards, and actually have time to talk to people!

last day of easter. totally exhausted and really struggled. made some dumb mistakes too, which didn't help (Laurina was making some equally good ones elsewhere, and we kept running into each other). got going a bit once the courses came back down the hill.

control collection