Training Log Archive: Shep

At Amiens/The Cascades, awesome area, awesome map and a good course. Started pretty conservatively, went a bit far left on 5 but otherwise ok until i caught Macey at 8 then missed 9 (maybe relaxed a bit once i thought I had another set of eyes on the map with me?). Ran too straight on the long one to 13 so dropped a coupla mins there. Got real tired on the way up to 15 so had a gell at 17 (caught bertbennett at 16). Got a bit confused on the edge of the circle at 18, couldn't see the boulders out in the bare rock so got a bit scared - I was in the right spot (those boulders are either tiny or not there) so should have just pushed on. Then threw it away on 22 and 23, dropped 5 mins on them - not sure what was going on, just did stupid stuff getting confused and not understanding what was going on. Macey and Bert left me behind. I think i was just real tired. Dropped out of the fight for 4th all the way down to 8th. Absolutely fuming after that, as craney would say I was in a boo. At least the cockatoos smashed it (5 of the top 9). Still a respectable result given how long I've been injured and how much it's still a problem so should be happier than I am... Did anyone else notice the European style decimal points (ie , instead of .) in the control descriptions?

Why were we running on 1:15000 on that map? Ridiculous. Interesting that the only people that enforce crap like that here in Australia were happily running on 1:10000 maps today. Don't get me wrong - the print/paper etc were excellent today, but what is ridiculous is adherence to a rule made by old men that are clearly most interested in keeping things as they were back in their day...

And of course my distance/climb for this race is an estimate, I wouldn't break the iof rule about wearing gps watches in a wre! That rule makes perfect sense... if your nav is so bad you wouldn't contemplate racing an elite wre...

Training Load 6 Days (!) 1 Hour

C • 1:15 000 14