Training Log Archive: AlistairR

Event: New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2012
 

Long warm up before the sprint, feeling good.

Nationals Sprint Champs M20. Was pretty pumped before the start and went out a bit hard, lost 10-15 seconds on the first control. Was good from there to the spectator putting some decent speed into the easy legs as I knew the second half was more complex. Lost another 10-15 seconds on the control after the spectator as lost contact with the map slightly. Good on the next loops just struggled to stay on top of the map and had quite a few hesitations. Passed Liam (2minutes) at control 12 and caught Eugene (1minute) at 21. Got caught out by th balcony control at 22 like most people and lost a good 30 seconds. Found it and boosted the last 2 controls into the event center.

Came 4th, 2 minutes ahead of Ryan, 4 minutes ahead of Liam. Would have been nice to be 2 seconds faster and got 3rd place ahead of Duncan but a good run anyway.

Mens Elite - Splits

still very slight sore throat. Flying up to CHCH today then to auckland tomorrow morning.

Cruise down to logan park, dynamic stretching, 5x150m strides, jog back to Carrington. Feeling good except for very slight feeling of sickness, downing the berroca and hoping it comes to nothing.

C • Nationals 2

Cramming for exam tomorrow. Will do an easy run and some strides tomorrow to get my legs all ready for nationals. not sure I'll have the speed for the sprint but Should be all good for the long.

right knee was sore before the race yesterday and sore on the downhills during the race. Isn't sore today but only doing one easy run before nationals to make sure I'm recovered and knee doesn't get worse.

Warm up.

Otago Long Distance Champs M21E. Went out at a pretty solid pace as the course was only 11km long and Earnsluegh is usually pretty quick, turns out the planner got the scale wrong and the course was 16.5km. Was running well until about control 20 where I died a bit and had to walk some hills, suffered from there to the finish (30 controls). Made a few mistakes, couple of minutes at 1 as I was to low, minute at 4 as I was at the wrong rock, same thing at 18 except more like 2minutes. Was alright run as I wasn't as far down as I usually am in a race that long although I don't know what time Carsten did.

Event: Otago Champs 2012
 

warm up.

Otago middle distance champs M21E. Had an exam in the morning so couldn't do the sprint, was also a bit brain dead by the time we got to the middle. Was an alright run just a bit sloppy and was struggling to concentrate. Made quite a few small errors (around 20-30seconds) but nothing big. Looked at my watch with 5 controls to go and saw it would be pretty close between me and Ed, that motivated me to push a bit on the last few and I sneaked in 1:30 ahead of him and 2:30 behind Carsten and Tane.