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Sunday Sep 11, 2016 #
Orienteering long (State League 12) 1:52:00 [4] **** 16.02 km (6:59 / km) +372m 6:16 / km
shoes: Salomon Fel-Cross 3 July
What a bloody adventure that was! Really keen for this one as it was a great test before Aus champs for fitness and nav over a long course. Whenever I get excited about a course I always make mistakes early on which is something I'm going to have to rectify with some sort of mental preparation. Lost about 4 minutes on the 1st control which should have been a REALLY easy compass off a track bend. No idea what I was doing for the first 10 minutes of my course really.
After that, smooth till 10 where I was caught up by Shep. I saw him as I was going back onto the track on the way to #5 so I figure he was about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes behind me at that point in real time. I had a pretty smooth next few controls and he eventually caught me at the control on 10, the placement of which which confused us both a bit. We ran together till 13 through the BINGO controls and back into the sandstone. Then I made the bloody huge mistake of thinking I could take time out of shep with some nifty route choices. BAAAAH WRONG! Lost 2 minutes in the thickest tree-corpse infested gully I've ever been in, as well as a good section of bark from my legs. After that I was physically pretty wrecked from the effort of getting out of that gully.
Long leg to 18 and my mind was nowhere. I had a route planned and just ended up on the wrong minor track and couldn't figure it out. Probably needed 2 gels out there today as I was seeing stars. Lost around 6-7 minutes on that control alone just through not finding that track and having to bash till I got to the major track and then bashing back into the control :(
So if you've made it this far, the message is mixed. I'm pissed off with myself for some really rookie errors especially when I had planned on taking the 1st part of the course really carefully and ignoring that completely. I should have just ran with Shep rather than trying to avoid following him. As much as I hate following, most of the time if you try and not follow you're putting yourself in a bad route choice just to avoid following. I think physically I was capable today of around a 1:35:00 or even better but after 3 hours sleep the night before and a 4:30hr drive I wasn't quite mentally up to it. But I'm buoyed by feeling strong in the forest and having the mental fortitude to push on after missing the 1st badly and getting completely scratched to shit by the forest. Shep is a great mark to look up to. Always great to have him at events as something to aspire to and a mark to strive for :)
After that, smooth till 10 where I was caught up by Shep. I saw him as I was going back onto the track on the way to #5 so I figure he was about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes behind me at that point in real time. I had a pretty smooth next few controls and he eventually caught me at the control on 10, the placement of which which confused us both a bit. We ran together till 13 through the BINGO controls and back into the sandstone. Then I made the bloody huge mistake of thinking I could take time out of shep with some nifty route choices. BAAAAH WRONG! Lost 2 minutes in the thickest tree-corpse infested gully I've ever been in, as well as a good section of bark from my legs. After that I was physically pretty wrecked from the effort of getting out of that gully.
Long leg to 18 and my mind was nowhere. I had a route planned and just ended up on the wrong minor track and couldn't figure it out. Probably needed 2 gels out there today as I was seeing stars. Lost around 6-7 minutes on that control alone just through not finding that track and having to bash till I got to the major track and then bashing back into the control :(
So if you've made it this far, the message is mixed. I'm pissed off with myself for some really rookie errors especially when I had planned on taking the 1st part of the course really carefully and ignoring that completely. I should have just ran with Shep rather than trying to avoid following him. As much as I hate following, most of the time if you try and not follow you're putting yourself in a bad route choice just to avoid following. I think physically I was capable today of around a 1:35:00 or even better but after 3 hours sleep the night before and a 4:30hr drive I wasn't quite mentally up to it. But I'm buoyed by feeling strong in the forest and having the mental fortitude to push on after missing the 1st badly and getting completely scratched to shit by the forest. Shep is a great mark to look up to. Always great to have him at events as something to aspire to and a mark to strive for :)
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Thursday Sep 8, 2016 #
Strength n stuff (5 minute plank workout) 5:00 [3]
Netty (Full game!) 35:00 [3]
Well the hammy and calf probably would have preferred if I didn't play netball but my mind craves the game. A win this week. Opposition down a WD, which made it a bit easier.
Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 #
Running 48:26 [4] 10.49 km (4:37 / km) +234m 4:09 / km
shoes: Saucony Kinvara 6 (August 2016
Muscles complaining. Will probably have no training for a few days while I let my calf and hammy rest until Sunday. I think I just keep coming back to training a day or two too soon and it never quite heals. Annoying. Pathetic training session really.
Note
seeing a very fat man on a very small vespa struggling to go up a hill today with heaps of traffic behind him lifted my spirits.
Strength n stuff (5 minute plank workout) 5:00 [4]
Tuesday Sep 6, 2016 #
12 PM
Running long (The death of a cat) 1:41:36 [3] 20.63 km (4:55 / km) +281m 4:37 / km
shoes: Saucony Kinvara 6 (August 2016
Decided against my usual tuesday speed session with the flyers because I want to give my muscles a little bit of a break from high intensity stuff for a little while. But I wanted to make sure Nic had someone to introduce her to everyone as she was trying out the flyers session for the first time.
Introduced Nicola. Made the absolutely massive mistake of mentioning orienteering to someone who I thought I'd already gone through the labour intensive task of explaining it to. I had not explained it to this man. There went 5 minutes. Anyway, ended up doing 2 of the 6 800m intervals just cause, then went on with my long run. Down to bar beach, then merewether, up to the top of the hill then back down to the beach, then into Glenrock. Then down fernleigh track, through Adamstown, past the race course and home.
I encountered a black cat near Hamilton. Apparently the sight of me running down the footpath scared the shit out of it and it ran onto the road. I hear a crunch, and a loud meow of pain. Then I turn around and see the cat dragging itself off the road. A few minutes later and the cat was dead. The guy who hit the cat (driving an X5, soul patch, douchebag haircut) didn't want anything to do with the situation but I made him take responsibility. I left the scene, and jogged home. Sad for the cat and its loving owners.
Introduced Nicola. Made the absolutely massive mistake of mentioning orienteering to someone who I thought I'd already gone through the labour intensive task of explaining it to. I had not explained it to this man. There went 5 minutes. Anyway, ended up doing 2 of the 6 800m intervals just cause, then went on with my long run. Down to bar beach, then merewether, up to the top of the hill then back down to the beach, then into Glenrock. Then down fernleigh track, through Adamstown, past the race course and home.
I encountered a black cat near Hamilton. Apparently the sight of me running down the footpath scared the shit out of it and it ran onto the road. I hear a crunch, and a loud meow of pain. Then I turn around and see the cat dragging itself off the road. A few minutes later and the cat was dead. The guy who hit the cat (driving an X5, soul patch, douchebag haircut) didn't want anything to do with the situation but I made him take responsibility. I left the scene, and jogged home. Sad for the cat and its loving owners.