Training Log Archive: Bruce

MFR Monday night run from Torgeir's box (student accommodation). It was a warm evening so eating pizza outside in his courtyard was quite pleasant. The run was pleasant too, but a little on the slow side. It was the last Monday run for Torgeir and Zoe before their Summer breaks in Norway and Adelaide. Blair had just returned from Canada in the morning, and Dion and Kirsten were also there.

Event: The Olympic Dream
 

Event: VOA Presentation's
 

End of Year presentations at Hanging Rock.
Scatter event on a fairly simple map, but there was good competition from Jymbo and Scammell. I waited for Jymbo to make a small mistake about 10 minutes in and then put the pressure on. Jymbo came back but couldn't quite catch me and I won by a second or two. Scammell chose a different route late in the course and lost a minute or two.

Fun relay. String course, Maze course, control picking. The hardest part was getting to the first control ahead of 30 others in a mass start, when the first control was only 20m away! After that I pulled out a comfortable 30s lead on a 3 minute course.
Helen Alexander was my partner and we finished 5th in the relay.

C • String Course 5

Long run around Yarra Bend. I ran with Dion for 90 minutes around some of the single tracks.

2 laps of tan. A lovely day for a run today in the sunshine. I managed to avoid the protesters for the G20 summit at the Hyatt.

2 laps of the Botanical with some surges. There was even a little sunshine at times today.

Street O at Bundoora.
Darebin Creek was flooded so the creek crossings were at bit hit or miss. Unfortunately, the crossing points that I chose were from the 'miss' category, which forced me to cross the strong flowing creek above my knees on two occasions, where the map said there were dry crossing points.
I ran strongly, but lost 2 minutes looking for a control described as 'tree near rock' in an area where there were about 200 trees and 20 rocks. This would have been ok if the control was where it was marked on the map. However it was misplaced by about 60m. It felt just like rogaining!

With weather like this I decided to stay inside at lunchtime today.
Melbourne, Australia
Light Rain Shower
7°C (feels like 3C)!

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2006 Tan Relay
6 x 500m + 830m
5 teams contested this year's race, with my team "Melbourne Midday Milers 1" coming third in 10.17 (5 seconds outside of Mottram's record).
I ran 1m21s from 2km to 2.5km, and then a 1000m tempo run immediately afterward to see the finish.

Other results
Sandringham Athletics Club 9.57
NAB 9.58
MMM1 10.17
MMM2 10.50
MMM3 11.14

1000m tempo, then 1 lap of the tan 500m on, 500m off.