Training Log Archive: candyman

Warm up from Andy's house to the Pinnacle for the race. We were adopted by a border collie on the way, we thought we had outsmarted it when we locked it outside the gate entering the pinnacle, but no, the dog just ran parallel to us outside the nature park and then found a hole and followed us the rest of the way to the cross country. Did some drills and run throughs before the start and then stumbled back downhill to Nat and Andy's place after the race, part way with Gramps.

One of the few 'real' cross country courses left on the calendar. A poor turn out due to most cross country club members disliking hills, grass, dirt, almost anything apart from flat bike paths, also Nationals Cross was on down in Hobart so the top 6 or so runners were missing too. Had a solid race despite nearly being tripped over by the dog that adopted me and Andy on the warm-up, lead from start to finish and ended up winning by 2 minutes from Andy who just beat Gramps (Trevor Jacobs, a 50 year old who ran the Pikes Peak Marathon in the US last weekend and just flew back to Australia)

It was two 4km laps, ran 13'56 then 14'28 for 28'25 total. The last lap really hurt.

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