Training Log Archive: coady

1 fly, 3 back, 5 breast, 9? free .. didn't keep count

Not a great start, running late, had to run to start and got there as my name was getting called - missed things like taping shoe laces. got a warm up, but was walking 3 mins into the run (up hill)

took the high route to 1, passed #9 to get a sneak peak of its location, just under 26 mins and 1 down..22 to go ...

pretty straight from 1 to 7, falling near 3 and down to 5, which shook me up a slowed me down for a minute or 2

drifted a little west to 8 but realised soon enough and went E 150m to flag.

over the top to #9 and it was the first flag I missed, hit the clearing at the NW of the circle then contoured to the S of the circle, if only I remembered when I ran past it to 1

straight from 9 to 12,
from 12 West to the hill then SW then S around and down the last hill to 13

14 was my worst error, after struggling with the hills and difficult terrain, it opened up to 13 so was tired, (fastest km split here) drifted S then got confused 100m before the control, winsplits have this as my only error losing 2 mins.

the rest were pretty straight, minor error going 50m high at 19, looking for wrong feature, ran 30 m south of 21

23 controls, 1 error at 14, 3 minor errors in circle at 9,19,21, drifted off course at 8 and 14, am pretty happy with that effort

physically/mentally struggled with the last loop, could still run but had to be very careful with navigation, picking features every 100m.

got to the finish with nothing left ... struggled with breathing, puffed for the next 15 mins, could only walk with small steps, layed down and experienced a tight chest .. nothing painful ... water helped .. hot chocolate helped more, had a chat to the first aid, as I started to shiver he said I had mild hypothermia ... yay .. put a thermal top on and finished the hot chocolate .. much better.

oh .. finished 20 of 23 finishers (31 entered)

Event: ACT Middle/Long Championships & NOL
 

Nol8 26/33 in m21e

good run with one 2 min error on 9 and a few smaller errors

went right to 3 and hit the track at top of hill, may have been slower than straight, perhaps route choice error but no nav error

ran hard and had a clean run to 8, Andrew Barnett got be just before 6 starting 2 mins after

drifted right to 9 then took a right turn, relocated at the track at the clearing 200m NE

had a wobble at 14, decided to take it carefully from then to finish so was a little slow and making small 20 second errors on 16 and 17, but thought that would have been better than gunning it and getting lost losing a few minutes.

pretty happy with the run and fitness, 2 months ago I was 10 kg heavier and would have been 5-10 mintues slower on fitness.

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