Sunday May 6 |
 | Orienteering race (WOC Trials Long) 1:45:59 [5] 15.8 km (6:42 / km) +480m 5:49 / km | |
| shoes: new VJ twisters |
| 6didn't help as i missed 90secs and hit #2 before 1. Quickly raced thru 2 and 3 to stay away from Jimbo. Ran #4-7 ok, but not as fast as the leaders. Caught Big Ev, and proceeded to make the most simple parallel error going to #8. Choose to go the non existant track to 9, but I think there was more climb this way than i originally thought. 10,11,12 were ok. But i felt the glucose start to drain from my brain going to 13. I got it ok but was hoping i'd catch Ezy or someone to tow me thru the next tough section. Had my carboshotz at 14, but it was too late. Lost time to 15 and 16 as my brain shut down. 17 and 18 were ok but then i was caught by Simon. Tried hard to stick with him from 19-22. But just didn't have the legs going to 23 and lost contact. He spiked it, i missed it. Missed 25 (losing another 2 places) before finally making it home.
Very disappointing race. I've run out of energy like this before in rogaines/AR but never after 60mins. And in those situations at least you can hand the map to someone else.
Top runs from Simon and AJ.
Guess i can safely make alternative plans for the 2nd half of August. Oh wait I already have... |
| Run warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: new VJ twisters |
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Saturday May 5 |
| Orienteering race (WOC Trials sprint) 19:35 [5] *** 4 km (4:54 / km) | |
| 13c slept:8.0 shoes: Salomon Trail Comp2 |
| Another disappointing sprint. Took some longer route choices to evade imaginary uncrossible features exentuated by poor map printing. Also didn't see a few of the best route choices and didn't have much speed in the legs. Good thing there was a 2nd race to the day. |
| Orienteering race (WOC Trials Middle) 35:11 [5] 5.6 km (6:17 / km) | |
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| I had been really looking forward to this race. Again didn't start well, losing 30secs on #1. Got into the swing of things thru 3,4 (won both splits), but still hesitating a bit too much. Tried to push in the easier spur gully, but lost another 15secs at 8. Caught Peter Sheldon, but started to gap me by 13 so I figured i must have been running really slowly. But after comparing splits realised he was just running fast. Started to catch Ryan at 14, but missed bits on 15,16 and he was out of sight again. Got the rest of the loop ok but still not spiking them like i hoped.
Not a bad result but was hoping my gold mining technique would come straight back to me and it didn't.
Good course on a top map. I guess i have a bit of an advantage since i remember running the schools relays here back in '94 or something. Me, Tom Walter and Andy hill lost about 10mins on the 1st control around todays finish, but hammered the rest of the course only to come back about 1 or 2mins down. |
| Run warm up/down 40:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Salomon Trail Comp2 |
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Friday May 4 |
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| Event: Aust. WOC Trials
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| Kayak (Patterson Lakes) 57:00 [3] | |
| shoes: K1 Kayak |
| with Dave, Kim and Fatrat. Paddled one of Dave's many K1's- which was a bit tippier than mine, and i haven't been in the k1 much this year. Got a few tips form Dave about technique, but it's already pretty good apparently :-) |
Thursday May 3 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
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Wednesday May 2 |
| Kayak (Lane Cove) 1:13:00 [3] 11.5 km (6:21 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Red7 double |
| morning paddle with Fatrat. Nice morning but water was more scanky than usual. |
| Run tempo (Narmaroo Loop) 30:00 [4] | |
| shoes: old Asics 2100 |
| Ran at a reasonable pace, but felt a bit puffed. What a beautiful may day! |
Tuesday May 1 |
| Kayak (Roseville bridge to Spit) 1:05:00 [3] 12 km (5:25 / km) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Red7 double |
| with Prong at night. Full moon. No wind. Couldn't be more pleasant.
We were both feeling strong and pushed pretty hard. |
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| C • Romantic 4 |
Monday Apr 30 |
| Run (Two Creeks/Little Diggers) 48:00 [4] 8.8 km (5:27 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: old Asics 2100 |
| Prong and Ezy drove the train. I was a passenger. Feeling a bit tired, but it was a quick run. |
| Run (Drills) 17:00 [3] 2 km (8:30 / km) | |
| shoes: old Asics 2100 |
| At Roseville oval with Prong.
5x high knees
5x strides |