Training Log Archive: shanel

Event: MetrO 11-12: Coogee
 

Event: WARA Upside-Down Rogaine
 

Too tired to type more after catching up on the rest of my log, so more later.

Wil and I v's the main contenders icky's, tandrooms, julf and finally Mark "taking it easy" and Brian.

Leading in I thought 72km would go close to winning, bit possibly a couple more k's. So when we found about 70km to cleanup, we planned everything leaving to two 20 pointers either side of the HH as the ones to drop if needed. According to my string our planned course was 71km to cleanup.

Main problem with the plan was that we'd be in the bush around the NW when the moon had set, but we couldn't come up with a way to get there with more light and save the 20's till the end.

Off to a shaky start when 45 wasn't on the north side the north side of the dam as advertised, so circled right around to find it on the east side. Quickly through the next few. I walked straight past 66 as I walked up the gully, with Wil off to my left checking we were in the right feature. tandrooms came in from our right and found it behind me as Wil came across behind me as well.

Smooth from there, passed icky's heading the other way between 103 and 94, then passed them again between 48 and 83. Pretty much clean to clear out the southern half of the course, except for a small diversion up the spur to check we weren't too low for 73 before going back down to the control. Got a bit loose heading into 105 with our bearing and the ridge line diverging and some pretty scratchy stuff around, but got it eventually without loosing time.

We completely screwed 100, I'd lost contact with the map as we headed up the hill, I may have been trying to eat whilst we were still pushing the pace, eventually we bounced off Mark and Bryan. Then Heading into 32 I wanted to follow the ridge through the recently bulldozed area, but my bearing was pointing me off to the left of the ridge, so I slipped down a bit, Wil stayed up a bit and eventually we found it with the help of some luck.

Veered a bit to the left on the way from 84 to 95, as there was a team heading our way from up on the ridge, but the little knoll was obvious enough for us to zoom in on it as we got closer.

Bearing got way off heading to 30 so we missed the trampoline and when we hit the spur we guessed right and wasted some time before heading back down the spur to the control. We'd lost quite a bit of time by now and Wil was getting concerned we'd have to at least drop the 20's. We made back some time by the time we got to 64, but dropped 34 to get it later instead of 21.

Wil was lagging a bit towards the end, until tandrooms passed us heading towards 42, and we'd decided to drop 20, so were glad when Tooms said they'd dropped two controls as well. I wasn't game to ask what they drop, just in case it was two 20's as well, but I thought they must have dropped a 20 and a 30. In any case we raced in, with Wil have a sudden burst of speed and Tooms dropping behind, eventually I overhauled Andre and we got clear to get in 20 secs before tandrooms, and in the end we had enough time to have got 20.

I would have liked to go for it at the end and stuck with the plan as I thought we could run it out. But Wil was suffering a bit more than me (I was happy I was feeling a lot better than during the 6 inch) and since I screwed up the end game on the last couple of rogaines, I was happy to go with Wil's wisdom and play it safe. And I doubt we could have cleaned up with 15 mins to spare.

C • 71km 10

After dropping the kids at school and since Belinda insisted on also dropping Ryan off for his first day at kindy, I ran from the school up to Armadale to pickup my freshly serviced and newly bottom bracketed bike.

Very humid and not much wind. HR was up around 185 for most of the time, whilst running a very easy pace

Gentle ride home from the bike shop with a freshly serviced and newly bottom bracketed bike. Much cooler than the run there.

Got back from 5 days of freedom from the internet last night, little bit of catching up on training log to do.

Event: Perth Trail Series - Wallygrunta
 

Nearly the same loop as the previous day, with a bit extra added on the go around Mrs Mac's.