Training Log Archive: fenry

Event: (MDC) Lover's Lane
 

M21 middle state champs. Pretty annoyed with my course, made a stupid mistake at the start, lost my head and did everything Craig told me not to. After that it was ok, minus one silly route choice in the mining and two stupid route choices on the last two controls. Might write a bit more later.

HM1 - Splits

Restin up getting pumped for tomorrow

Warm up run to kings park.

One of the hardest runs i've done in a while. Felt good though, sand track loop and back home - downhill finish felt good. Was going to do a long run today but mum had a talk with me and told me that this close to nationals i didnt want to do longer than i have to and risk and injury. one look at oscar had me agreeing.

Sand track loop at kings park

Event: Yetar Spring
 

H4 at Yetar Springs. Decided to opt for a shorter course to help prepare me for nationals, were i won't run more than 5kms on all but one day. And there was a lot of green on the long ones. Start to 1 was a good leg, offering an option around the bottom of the hill and one around the contours and over a couple of knolls. I chose the second, and executed it without any dramas. To 2 i followed the spur up to the rocky high point then contoured round, and saw the creek and hill from a 100m away. I climbed a fair bit, on 3, but it was just something i had to sacrifice to know were i was and speed up, full speed no mistakes. 4 was fine, the gully looked like it was facing west not south, but i knew i was in the right place, so i went around and sure enough there was the control. Fine to 5 and 6. I was running well out of 6, made it the 500m or so to the track and landed exactly were i should have, then i was lazy after the track and came to low, losing about a minute compared to the H3. Fine to 8, went over the top of the hillside to 9, then fast through to the finish. A nice course, run well for the most part, just a bit annoyed with no. 7.

H4 - Splits