Training Log Archive: jennycas

Event: Easter 2013
 

Sprint around Latrobe uni campus, nicely set by Toph. The mistakes I made were in the bush - overrunning the first control by 50m and ending up at the second (I suspect I wasn't alone, but I had the second-fastest split belting back to 2!) and then on the northerly bush leg 5-6 I aimed right on purpose, but when I came near the road and saw the houses I thought I had to go further right because they should be to the left, but I was actually looking at other houses further right, which were folded under on my map. Figured it out pretty soon but probably lost about a minute, and 4 places (or 7 if you include the junior girls), between those 2 errors. But I'm sure that those other people made mistakes too, and could say the same. Not sure about my route on the leg after the spectator control; that got a bit messy at the end. But mostly I felt that I was making decisions well, and also running quite well for me, certainly faster than I was thinking!

Prologue Course 2 - Splits

Knees were a bit hammered from terrain (3 days in a row at Easter could be problematic in that regard) so I swam. Smells emanating from the bakery were very fruity - I guess they're making hot cross buns!

Terrain loops of Blackwood forest, jumping as many logs as possible. Not super fast because the needles were slippery especially when playing pine tree slalom. But felt fairly good, certainly stronger than I have for a while. (Really meant to start doing this a few weeks ago!) Was still warm out but I think I finally acclimatised to 30+ earlier this month. Also it was good to concentrate on something other than this afternoon's somewhat disquieting meeting (neither first nor last in the drip-feed, death by a thousand paper cuts, sequence of Things That Are Happening To Repat For The Good Of The SALHN).

A bit stiff from gardening but felt like I got through the longer bits quite well, only I couldn't turn my legs over any faster when it came to the shorter ones.

Warmup 8 min, warmdown 15. Surprisingly humid.

Pretty wrecked today so didn't go to Lady Alice (it's only Para Wirra in disguise anyway). Instead took dog to beach with George, pulled lots of weeds in the garden (but only about 10% of those available to me) and in the evening went for a ride. This made me feel better, but still fairly exhausted.

C • Me too 4

A day in God's Country, with Steve & Zara. That's what Andy Thomas, the landowner of Twigham and Merridee, calls it out that way. We were pretty late at his place last night looking at maps and getting contact details of other landowners, so didn't leave Burra in a hurry this morning. Visited a couple of other landowners, a couple of potential hash house sites and then spent time at Bri Glen Springs where Steve checked out the May badge event's assembly area and Zara & I jogged up Wonna Creek (would be impressive to see it in flood) to Merridee ruins so I could show her the detailed stonework on the old chimney. Nice that our spring 12 hour rogaine is coming together already :)