Paddle warm up/down (River) 20:00 [3]
shoes: Endorfinn Ski
Went down to Sandy beach for a paddle. I wanted to see how I have improved since the last time I went to the CDU training.
20 mins warm up paddle at a steady pace before doing the roughly 3.2 km course used in training.
Paddle (River) 18:58 [4] 3.2 km (5:56 / km)
shoes: Endorfinn Ski
Started well but really feeling the easterly after a few minutes. I still lose a lot of time on the turns, maybe I should pick a course without 2 u-turns.
Didn't think I was doing that good but surprised to see I was just over 14 mins when passing the starting jetty before the second turn. Really pushed it back into the wind for the last few hundred and finished 1:10 faster than the last time I did the training in November.
Paddle (River) 20:00 [2]
shoes: Endorfinn Ski
Another 20 mins at a more leisurely pace.
Practicing a couple of turns but I still need most of the river to turn around.
Orienteering (Nav Dash) 28:47 [3] 5.0 km (5:45 / km)
Started behind stevej and massive matsiv and saw them running off the wrong way after #1. Luckily Steve turned around quickly but the next I saw of Matt was running off from #10 the wrong way still looking for #2 (He still did better than my effort last week for his first event).
Had a good tussle with Steve from 2 through most of the race ( the sprint to #5 had me worried ). Some trouble at #14 and a couple of poor route choices but overall felt comfortable with where I was during the run.
No trouble with the knee which was good as 5km is at the limit of comfortable running at the moment. Happy with the time, Next target sub 25. Then I will have to work on improving the running a bit more.
Still learnt a few more lessons today. Well done MTBjen, it was a good course ( the best I have ever run ).