Training Log Archive: Billenicus

Sprint score event with question and answer controls round Parliament.

Good fun, but a bit frustrating at times having to slow down to read inscriptions and plaques. One or two small slips where the brain just got overloaded, but otherwise pretty good - the main losses were in trying to find the answers. Good exercise to try to keep going as smoothly as possible.

Loop of Botanical Gardens as a warm down (pretty much round the perimeter). Legs feeling fairly tired on the hills.

From Keith George Memorial Park car park up the Southernmost track up to the ridge, then a fairly complete loop of the top half of St Pats Forest and back down the other track.

Up towards the ridge there is now a big sign saying "Private - no entry" and the track has been diverted to not go up to the main track. Old track still there though so went that way anyway. But if you ever want a good reason to not live in NZ - that's it. Lovely places to run but you can't go there because the countrysides's effectively closed off. Grrrrrrrrr.

Anyhow, felt OK, but foot a bit sore. Descent at the end not much fun with wet leaves covering wet tree roots. Felling continuing in St Pats Forest, which is a shame because the flatter forest at the top is just starting to get pretty runnable.

Running the kids score course at Harcourt Park. Effectively a night sprint rogaine with over 30 controls. All pretty easy but still useful traing at a reasonable speed in the dark. Adding to the fun was a thunderstorm - loads of lightning providing extra light, and rain just turning very heavy towards the end.

Collecting controls afterwards. More thunder, lightning and rain, plus small ponds where it had been dry half an hour earlier.

The Whitemans Valley loop, anticlockwise.

Conditions good. Generally feeling pretty good, and legs quite tired afterwards.

Up Avro - down the track to end of Pinehaven Rd - Pinehaven Sch - Chichester Drive - Witako.

Still mostly passable down the hill, though need full leg cover (not a problem with today's temperature). Witako track as runnable as it's been, though the track back down onto the road at the end is getting a bit overgrown.

Felt generally pretty good. Foot seems to be fine again now.