Training Log: jennycas

Note

Direct consequence of meeting Vanessa (& Reuben at the bike shop) for lunch: purchase of a new bike :) Yes, it does fit in the car to get back to Adelaide!

C • Good Work 1

orienteering race (street O) 40:18 [4]

Scatter O, Melbourne style, at Canterbury. $4 gets you a black & white map and the company of about 200 other people. B course collects 15 of 20 controls. From the mass start everyone headed west so I did too. It was as good a choice as any. I wasn't feeling very imaginative so leaving out a cluster of 5 in the east and being as efficient as possible through the rest, became the plan. I think it worked. There were people coming from every direction, at every control, and I managed not to run into any of them! When I got back the people on the finish all yelled at me to punch the finish control. What the? How is this necessary for an untimed event? (Results are just points based on placing, I think.) Anyway, I don't know which B course guys beat me back, but none of the guys on A did!

running 48:05 [2] 8.5 km (5:39 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 15

Leisurely run from Melbourne Uni through Royal Park & Princes Park with Peter Taylor. Discovery of the day: he keeps 2 chairs at his desk; blue for when he is decently fresh & clean, and red which can be sweated on after running! Takes a mathematician to think of this, also to describe the point in the run with least altitude as the nadir. I'm still not convinced that you can use 'nadir' as a geographical descriptor...

C • Leisurely 2

orienteering (Petticoat Gully) 50:01 [2]
shoes: new Olways

Simon set 4 tricky short loops in the NW corner of the map (where WOC trials middle 2007 was) and we started out intending to do these as sort of sprintervals but it was too wet, muddy and slippery to race. My splits: 13.19, 12.16, 11.17, 13.09. I had a wonderful time in the pouring rain and for some reason received an easter egg from Simon as prize - either for being the only person daft enough to do all 4 loops, or for having the muddiest bottom afterwards! (After John went to the trouble of putting out tapes for his course, all the drowned rats piked on it and we went to the pancake parlour in Ballarat, where Sus demonstrated how to hold a sugar packet between top lip and nose then flip it into one's mouth. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then this must be a highly prized skill, because soon most of the Arrows were trying it, with varying degrees of success!)

orienteering race (Eureka NOL Sprint) 30:30 [4] 2 km (15:15 / km)
shoes: new Olways

Bryce's Flat (Bryce's Area of Pebbly Undulations being too long a name to fit on tourist maps). Possibly my slowest km rate in a NOL race since WOC trials 1999 (80min for 4km on Non-Smokers) but I think I lost less than 2 min in error/inefficiency, and clearly half the field lost more than that. Maybe I got the knack of reading the mullock heaps quicker than some people?

orienteering race (pairs mixed relay) 48:23 [4] 4.2 km (11:31 / km)
shoes: new Olways

1st leg 2.9km, 32:54; 2nd leg 1.3km, 15:54. I was concerned that Reuben had drawn the short straw being teamed with me, but think I actually held up my end of the bargain okay. All the girls (well, nearly all) turned right, across the creek, out of the mass start, getting the hill out of the way early on and following the track to the Blowhole. I was still within sight of Sus and Bridget till about 5, then V went past me, then Zoe & I tag-teamed the rest - I got away on the uphills then she passed me on each descent. (I was doing way better on hills than yesterday.) At the end Lauren came hurtling down the hill behind me but I held her off. Second run was less interesting because by the time Reuben handed over to me the top guys were already going out on their final leg - so I stood aside to let them cross the creek :) Ran the second half of this with Lucy McGarva, as I had done in the sprint. This was a great relay format, but since when does a relay involve not using relay software, or having cumulative team times displayed?