Training Log: carolinepigerre

Easy with the crew to the bridge for a play and then back. Really nice and chill

Contour only training in the forest from home.
With Julian talking everything through which was really good.
Focusing on generalising shapes better and just reading contours more.
Useful to see what he was using when he took 2 of the legs.
Another beaut day out, sunny tops of hills were so nice and the forest is so open now without any of the leaves, really cool to see the changes in seasons.

Easy, was nice. Felt like I should be doing something outside though because it was sunny for the first time in 2 weeks!

Night pairs training w club on contour only map.
With Bella, good to talk things through.
Noticed I was struggling to hold direction and kept getting disorientated, especially on the legs she was taking even though she was doing them fine.
Need to do more contour only training though, this was good to force me to use them better.
Generally pretty low confidence throughout, I think the lack of visibility really stuffs me over. Even though my legs were generally fine I came out of this not feeling good about my orienteering which is annoying but not stressed because after all its just night training.
Really fun to be out with someone else!

Mila by Night #1
Bit of a failure, aim was to run hard and follow the front girls and just get a good physical workout from it and not worry about the orienteering.
Not good at this and was off the pace from the start - a combination of looking at my map too much so not running hard but also tired physically and just couldn't push. Front girls were out of sight just before the first control. Didn't find the first control, though I was super close to it but didn't really realise and then didn't bother searching for it, or going to #2. Went down to the track, double checked where I was just to be sure and was contemplating just going straight to #5 but ended up going to #3. Not the best route there but I knew where I was the whole time and then the group who had started 5 mins after caught and ran through me there so I stayed with them for a bit. Getting tired now so got to the circle for #4 but didn't go searching because I was too lazy to go up the hill and same for #5. Then decided to go straight to #8 which was again on the top of a hill so didn't end up actually going to it. Across the paddock where the eventual winner caught and overtook me but stayed with her for #9 and #10 which were fine, as was #11. Skipped #12.
Fun, but came out feeling like I hadn't really gotten much out of it.
Have some different things to think about and focus on for next time though so hopefully can make that better.

Pool was packed

Bodypump
My stick arms were struggling at the end even though I had the lightest weights but good sesh.