Training Log Archive: MTBjenIn the 7 days ending Apr 20, 2008:
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Sunday Apr 20, 2008 #
MTBO race (middle) 1:00:54 [5]
slept:8.0 shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
This map was complicated but i found it much easier than yesterday because the tracks were clear. Still important to read contours etc in the very complex bit and for some reason got it right today. Partly because i figured yesterday's effort had destroyed any chance of making the team so i wasn't feeling so stressed! Finished 2nd. 10min off marquita (NZ) in 1st place and 6min in front of the next aussie in 3rd.
Lost 2 min on the second last control by allowing myself to get distracted by a superior orienteer!
Lost 2 min on the second last control by allowing myself to get distracted by a superior orienteer!
MTBO race (sprint) 23:50 [5]
shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
This one was heaps of fun- fast and tricky on the most twisted part of the nerrina map. Still riding slowish to avoid mistakes. After a couple of early errors (30-60sec each) i did ok. Only lost another 30sec by not seeing a route choice across a clearing at 8. Rode the last 3 controls really hard once i knew where i was going. Great fun. Finished 5th, 30sec behind 3rd.
Note
Apparently we made life quite hard for the selection panel by swapping first and last places and being so erratic. But i guess my good middle distance race was enough to show that i can probably learn to be ok by August so i did make the team in the end, along with Cath, Thor and Mel. Should be a really fun group to head to poland with. Very excited :)
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Saturday Apr 19, 2008 #
Event: Australian MTBO WOC Trials
MTBO race (long) 2:06:25 [5]
slept:8.0 shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
This one was a pretty dismal effort although i was actually quite happy. I made lots of silly mistakes- mostly just not thinking straight. Either thinking about distance while ignoring contours or vice versa. BUT having said that, i was using catching features and keeping in touch with the map well, so i didn't turn any of the silly little mistakes into 20min errors like usual. The course was tricky and the map really confusing in one particular part where the tracks kept disappearing. I was pretty happy with my route choices, so i guess the only real lesson is to focus more.
Finished last out of the 8 girls, 20min behind the winner.
Finished last out of the 8 girls, 20min behind the winner.
Friday Apr 18, 2008 #
MTBO (training) 1:05:00 [2]
slept:8.0 shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
Another practice course at Cheswick, just out of Ballarat. Great area, except for one heinously confusing and badly mapped section where i had no chance at all (and suzanne who put the tapes out had felt the same way so i didn't try for too long for that particular control). Otherwise doing ok. Still riding very slow and trying to get it right.
MTBO (training) 17:00 [3]
shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
Fun little sprint course in Victoria park in ballarat.
Note
Spent a bit of time in the evenings going through maps and talking about route choice. This is a first for me and was really useful. Also i think immersing myself in orienteering for a few days was really useful, i can feel myself getting better :)
Thursday Apr 17, 2008 #
MTBO (training) 28:00 [2]
slept:0.0 shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
O training in Canadian state forest near Ballarat. Short course in the twisty, confusing singletrack maze. Good fun and excellent practice- forced me to simplify because there is no way you can read all the tracks. Just have to eg head north along a spur, following whatever track goes that way. Took it very slowly due to extreme tiredness but also to get the nav right. Turned out it was pretty good practice for the long course on saturday (although i messed that one up!). This one went pretty well.
MTBO 1:10:00 [3]
shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
A longer course in the same area. This one i started out ok, then thoroughly messed up the middle, then did a few ok and bailed home. No excuse except tiredness for not thinking straight in the middle. Headed back to the caravan park for long-awaited nap, only waking up at 6 so missed the sprint training in the arvo!
Wednesday Apr 16, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 30:00 [2] 13.0 km (2:18 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Feeling a heap better this morning, even passed some roadies.
Roadie (commute) 33:00 [2] 13.0 km (2:32 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Home. And off to Melbourne again... thankfully left my bike there so don't have to pack it up tonight
Tuesday Apr 15, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 42:00 [2] 16.0 km (2:38 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
To work 1 then to work 2. Feeling ok today while John gets sicker. Cankles gone now. Urgh.
Roadie (commute) 32:00 [2] 13.0 km (2:28 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Home
Run warm up/down (token) 18:00 [2]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes
Went to training for a chat. Did the warm-up and cool down, then stretched while fletch and wil did their hill reps.
Monday Apr 14, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 35:00 [1] 13.0 km (2:42 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Slow, slow, slow. Nausea and tummy cramping and dizziness now subsiding, but still completely shattered. Feet and cankles still swollen, i feel like a crusty old heart failure patient. Nothing is sore today, yay! Although, after the last week, the ride to work is super-flat and the roadie seems amazingly fast! Struggling at work, especially with the endless walking to the waiting room and back!
Note
Just turned on medical brain and reread all the bits about nausea and dizziness and then swollen legs starting at the end of the rogaine. Around which time i drank 4L of water (not even sports drink) and ate far too little in about 20h of racing, and didn't sleep for several days. Would have been interesting perhaps to check my kidney function. Then again perhaps better not to know.
Roadie (commute) 35:00 [2] 13.0 km (2:42 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Home again. Still very slow and feeling very ordinary (after an exhausted and brain-fried day at work) but Hale Rd is a hill no longer. It felt tiny and was over so soon!