Training Log Archive: shanel

Forgot my GPS again, so since I need to copy tRicky's time and distance I may as well do a bit more copy/paste whilst I'm at it.

Session was 4 x Kalinda, 3 min rest then again, all at threshold because Fletch had forgotten what the session was meant to be :-) We got a nice downpour on the way to the bottom of Kalinda just before we started. I ran the efforts by myself and some chick caught me on the recoveries. Went a little bit harder in the second set and my stomach was unhappy from about halfway through.

2:16
2:24
2:23
2:23

2:16
2:20
2:17
2:15

Rhyming Ricky failed to mention the young friend he bought along to impress by making her run in pelting rain.

C • How young? 8

Event: Malmalling
 

Forgot my GPS and can't remember exactly what my time was, so both time and dist are approx.

Spent lots of time randomly hunting for boulders, was miles north of 2. Not too bad through to the map change (except for boulder hunting), wasted some time on the way to 12 when I got confused on the track option. Screwed around a far bit with 13 and took a while to find it even with the track to the north and east to locate from. More boulder hunting to the finish especially the second last control.

H1 Course - Splits

Darling Downs to Claremont

Slightly cool this morning, luckily I had all my warm gear ready to go. May need better gloves but, fingers were frozen by the time I got to the freeway and I couldn't press the button to change the brightness of my dodgy front light.

Gentle ride the whole way with the Dalkeith loop added at the end.

Claremont to Darling Downs

Added the loop to the Riverside Dve underpass to avoid waiting for traffic and try to pad out to 50km. Very slow first half, got into more into it in the second half. Quite cold by the time I got home but didn't want to stop to put warm stuff on. Had to just overshoot home to get 50km.

S-M-H-S-M-H

3:44, 3:37, 3:25
4:12, 3:36, 3:24

Planned 30km in 3 hrs (hopefully a bit quicker).

Started from school and headed for brickwood reserve to warm up before heading up the hill and over, down at Wungong dam and back along Wungong river.

Found it really hard to keep the pace above a plod along the bridle trails and didn't quite get to plan, but closer enough. Legs were a bit tired and sore from yesterdays run I didn't really run freely the whole time.

Had originally conceived doing a gentle 15km, but it was getting close to 7 by the time I started so I figured something like 14km at 5min/k.

Didn't have to work too hard early. Thought it was 4km from Lord John Forest back to Matilda Bay via Moount St, so padded out nicely to get to LJF around the 10km mark and only about a minute behind 5min/k pace.

Cranked up the pace heading back along the river, still feeling comfortable but getting towards the top end of my available leg speed. Passed 14km and realised 4km was probably to the carpark after the brewery where I use to park long ago. Luckily I was still feeling good and kept up the pace with the extra motivation of trying to close in on a cyclist who'd passed me but wasn't really getting away, but I couldn't catch her.

Very happy with the run, felt good the whole way. Glad I had winter gear on when I hit some of the cold patches in Kings Park.

Only problem was stomach pain at work after breakfast. Better ring up for blood test results tomorrow, hopefully it's just a bit of heliobacter.

Token cool down and stretching.

Event: Munday Brook (MTBO)
 

Lots of slow and steady trying to work out some of the finer detail. Got a bit turned around looking for 11 after doing some bush/track bashing, hit the track to the west, when I thought I'd been heading north.

Felt a bit lucky to get 15 without too much trouble as I wasn't sure I'd come off the main road in the right spent, but was happy too have passed Robin and Jake on the way there since I was sure they would have started way ahead of me.

After 16 I took the the wrong turn off the main road because I'm sure my compass was saying it had turned fully east, so ended up going a slow way to 17.

Short jog out to collect the last two controls.

long - Splits

Darling Downs to Claremont

Chillaxing ride in, not too much effort. Sat behind a couple of others around Mt Henry to after Canning Bridge then went to the front most of the way to the narrows.

Had decided to add in the Dalkeith loop to CCGS, then had a slight detour round some road works, then took the worst possible route back to work via a sandy laneway.

Claremont to Darling Downs

Sufferaxing ride home. Got caught by a few small children riding a trail approaching Berrigan, after a few minutes of riding next to me then behind me, they gave up and went to find someone else to bother.

Started feeling a little bit tired along Rowley Rd, was trying to avoid switching off, but saw some fireworks over towards Armadale so enjoyed the action for a few minutes, after that the legs just weren't up for putting in any effort, they weren't hurting just lacking energy.

Planned to do about 15km. Started off OK. GPS battery died after 5 mins so with no watch I had to be a bit conservative to make sure I got back home in plenty of time to pick up the kids. Stomach got painful out near the rec. centre, as far away from home as possible, so walked a little bit till the pain eased off, then took it easy the rest of the way home. Dist. approx from nearmaps.

Gentle run with Richard, tried to keep the pace easy.

C • Easy for some 5

Event: Boundless Adventure, Canning River
 

Headed out behind Wally and Peter Gigengack. Decided to do all the bonuses without working out if they were worth it. Wally slowly got away, Peter was just ahead of me most of the way slowing me down punching a couple of controls, and he got a bit of extra gap at a couple of road crossing as I slowed for passing cars. Peter disappeared between 4 and X7 so I figured he wasn't getting the last bonus. By myself through to the the TA.

Started the paddle just in front of Andre stayed in front of him to P11 and P12 but he got just ahead on the way to P13, where we hung around for a while whilst the purple avenger clung onto the wooden post, until Andre nudge his paddle back to him, then I snuck in before Andre, but he still got to P14 before me and he slowly disappeared into the distance. I Thought the bonus X15, would just be worth it so went for it. Passed Grant Pepper on my way back from X15 but it didn't take long for him to get to X15 then come flying past again.

Onto the bike I think Peter Gige was transitioning just as I was leaving. Took the wrong road to the freeway, so a little bit of extra distance. Got to B2, couldn't find anything giant, Peter G got there as well, still nothing giant, eventually Peter said he was going to guess, so I did the same having already wasted 8 minutes trying to find the answer. Bit of leap frogging with Peter till he smashed away after B6 and I had a bit of trouble finding TA2 since I could barely make out the streets yet alone the names on the map.

Headed north on the aerial photo exercise, didn't look/consider if the options were worth it, just went for everything. Overshot X25 because I'd copied down the descriptions badly and thought it said carport not carpark, eventually decided there wasn't any building around so looked at the description a bit more closely and headed back to the carpark. Managed to avoid getting muddy without wasting too much time. Got back to transition with Grant Pepper still there and I think only one more person not to have gone through yet. Got going on the bike again before Grant and he kept catching me at controls till B8 after which I got a decent gap on him. Saw Andre and Peter Gige coming out of B9 as I was going in, so hoped I may yet catch them, but didn't.

Looks like I didn't really gain any extra time by doing the optional controls, so I guess if I hadn't done them I could have saved some energy and finished faster. But I think I prefer doing the full course anyway and it looks like I beat Andre after all, but still 9mins behind Saz. Pity I end up being one of the last finishers.

Short, easy loosener.

Couple of laps of the lake in 30:16 and 31:16.

Arms started feeling like they've been wasting away lately pretty early on.

Event: Australian Championships Rogaine
 

Event: WARA Autumn 12hr Rogaine - Mallee Fowl Replay
 

I guess it's time to put some words to log before all is forgotten.

Tim and I planned 80km by my string (straightline + obvious hill advoidance pinned in). Which gave us all but 6 controls which would have been 2500 out of 2760 pts and we would have had easy options to pick up 4 of those controls at the end.

We started off with Wil and Ben for the first 2 or 3 controls before we went around the SW corner in the opposite direction to them and we continued clockwise around the map whilst they went anti-clockwise.

We pushed over the ridge out of 84 and had a nice run down the watercourse to a track and on to 94. More track/watercourse/track down watercourse run for a couple of controls, passing David Baldwin who was in tourist mode a took a photo as we went past in full flight.

Got away from the watercourses for a while through 34, 64, 63 and felt comfortable minimising the climb across some of the higher terrain before going through a whole lot more watercourse work. Into a bit of a gorge for 82 as night fell and more of the standard pattern, up a watercourse, across a saddle, down the watercourse on the over side.

Got to 91 about 10:30, which was our first decision point. Our next control 83 was my 40km mark and I hoped to get there by 11:00 which would give us 13 hrs for the 2nd 40km. So we were looking good and headed for 83, but we were a bit sick of the watercourses so we decided to take the ridge up and over a big hill and down into the little watercourse.

But we tried to contour around the top of the hill and it got too steep to get round, leaving us with a slow difficult decent down to the main watercourse anyway. This cost us a heap of time, 3km leg took 1hr 20mins. So nearly all our extra time for slowing down in the second half was gone and things continued to get messier from there.

We tried the ridge approach again from 74 to 73 and failed again hitting the water drop just past the control. Warer drop was all but dry, luckily Tim still had heaps of water, so I got the last litre before we headed back up to the control and back down to the track, passing quite a few teams who were now heading for the dry water drop.

Tim was pretty knackered by now and I'd been having quite a lot of stomach pain and was having a lot of trouble finding anything to eat that agreed with me. Anyway, more watercourse towards 92 over a saddle and into another main water course up the second little side creek, but it quickly disappeared with no sign of the control. I had a quick look over the spur to the left which looked like it would be the first little side creek, Tim looked to the right and could see another creek that way so we went right to the next watercourse, nothing there, that must be the first one, so onto the next one, nothing fitted. Eventually Tim worked out we were on the longer wiggly creek way past where we wanted to be , so back over to the creek I'd originally spotted over the spur to find the control 70m from where I'd been half an hour earlier.

Towards 55 I was starting to really loose the plot nav. wise and was badly misjudging the distance up the water course and the direction we were heading up the water course, so heaps more screwing around, we were about to head up a big knoll (671) but decided it looked too big, so we sat down to gather our thoughts before eventually somehow getting it right.

All confidence now gone and heading towards 5am we decided a messy ridge route to 66 wasn't going to happen, so with another hour and a half of darkness to go we dropped down another water course to the road to avoid any more serious nav. before daylight. Up the road to 33, big water course to the hut at 67, time for Tim to sit down and relax for a while, so I took a few extra photos whilst I was waiting and worked out we could get one more control before cuttin gmost of the nice flat SE corner and getting as much as possible on the way in.

Finally did a nice ridge route between 86 and 69. Watercourse most of the way to 44. Cut the corner to 56. Then my biggest mistake, I thought the ridge up towards 93 looked too steep and we'd find an easier way up a watercourse a bit further down the river. But we got stuck in the gorge with no way out, by the time we got to a spot where we could get out of the gorge we were too far from 93 and had to drop it. In hindsight we should have just gone up the evil ridge or round the right side instead, if we hadn't dropped that 90 pts we could have got 7th place instead of 14th.

Eventually headed up a little watercourse to leave the gorge, but it was the wrong on, so we wasted a little bit of time going over to the right one. Quickly up to 54 on a big spur overlooking the HH, Tim wasn't sure we'd have time to get 53 on the summit, but we got it easily and we finished with over 20 mins to spare.

Still had plenty in the tank at the end, but my stomach really appreciated Tim easing of the pace in the second half. Not as good a result as I'd hoped for, but at least I know I need to work on my eating plan, maybe I'll try not eating next time. No blisters and minimal soreness afterwards. Hoping to go much better at the state champs.

I got my i-gotU GT-600 GPS logger (which I order from Adelaide) today. Just in time to fly to Adelaide tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have time to make sure it works nicely.

Gentle run around Kings Park to stay fresh and loose. Started out slow and picked up the pace a little as I went. Burst of speed at the end with the help of the little kicker.

May have spotted Chris doing a Floreat solo UWA sprint.