Training Log Archive: nh

Event: Australian Middle Distance/Relay Championships
 

5th place in the Australian Middle Distance Champs. Sloppy race with lots of mistakes, and pretty exhausted after the week. Just felt like I wasn't really concentrating.

Oz Middle Course 1 - Splits

Fun training with Tom and Matt. Jogged a short course out at Orroral just to get used to the rocks again. A bit tricky at the start but once I got into the course it was ok

I have been doing way too much training this week to run well over the weekend. Tomorrow is going to hurt

Played a bit too much football with everyone for a rest day. Weekend could be interesting

Took some controls on the map from the School's Individual. Ran to the start and then did a bit of controls picking in the sand-mining area followed by some long legs across the vague spur-gully part. Decided to run hard for the first part of the Senior Boys course so I could compare splits with Tim. On the way to the 1st control I ran past two controls, so I assumed that there were controls out still. Then when I got to the control site and there was no control there I got really thrown. Forgot to take splits too. The sand mining area was quite tricky without controls but the vague part of the map towards the end was super easy. Just compass and run

Fast intervals with Matt Crane, Ian, Olle, Brodie and Kas on the Capital-O map again. 4 efforts, each about 5 min long. Felt pretty good once I had my shoes on but I developed a pretty nasty stitch which held me back a bit

Cool sprint around Canberra with Olle, Ian and Marketa on the Capital-O map. Not to hard but pretty fun. Keen to come back here at night

Nice run with Ian, Marketa and Matt Crane around and over Mt Ainslie. Marketa taught us all how to run properly on the downhills too. Except maybe Ian, he didn't catch on so quick

Cool mission with Tom, Greta, Anna and Marketa. Climbed the highest peak in Australia, Kosciuszko (2228 m). Really windy but not too much snow so it was quite fast. Lots of signs forbidding running on the walkway but, yolo

4th place in the Australian Long Distance Championships in M21E. 11 minutes back on the winner Matt Crane so I was quite far off the pace. Found it really tiring jumping over all the logs and branches in the forest. Technically it was ok, only one lapse in concentration where I drifted off-line. Could have taken some straighter lines though and dropped a few hesitations in the circle. Nearly ran into a wombat and stood on a snake too so it was a bit exciting at times

LONG Course 1 - Splits