Saturday Jul 14 |
 | Orienteering race (Aus Champs) 1:33:00 [5] 15.77 km (5:54 / km) +600m 4:57 / km | |
| ahr:182 max:231 slept:8.0 shoes: VJ Falcons |
| Was happy to have another good run, and even happier it was in an important race. It wasn't as tricky or as tough as I thought it would be... the long leg to 9 probably helped in that area. Started slowly, being a bit off at 1. Then lost another min at 8, was too low and thought the boulder and spur that the control was on was the top of the hill. Clean run from then on. Caught Blair leaving 9 after he made a mistake and we were together for the rest. Had another heart rate jump over 200 just after leaving the spectator control, thought it might have something to do with taking a gel with caffiene in it? So it was a bit of a struggle to catch up to Blair on the uphill leg into the green. Thought if I could catch and keep up with Blair's pace over the next couple of controls I would be able to finish the course a bit stronger through the less physical bits of the course. The last 1 or 2 km felt much better even with the heartrate still over 200. |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons |
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Friday Jul 13 |
| Running 21:00 [2] 3.96 km (5:18 / km) | |
| ahr:129 max:138 shoes: Brooks T4 Racer |
| Easy run with Patty from the good ol' Shearing Shed and around the river in Dubbo. Ran through most of the Dubbo Dash course, and some of those banks looked a lot steeper and muddier than I had thought at the time... was probably pretty lucky to finish the race unscathed considering I was wearing racing flats. |
Thursday Jul 12 |
| Orienteering race (Western Plains 2) 26:31 [5] **** 5.2 km (5:06 / km) +185m 4:20 / km | |
| ahr:179 max:188 spiked:19/21c shoes: VJ Falcons |
| Middle distance public race after the jwoc middle finals. Really happy with the run, one of my best races both techinically and physically. Back to running like I felt at the end of last year. Spiked the first one which got me off to a good start, which got me concentrating well. Control flow was good and had no real errors. Two route choice errors on 10 and 12, and a couple of other very small misses, but probably couldn't have run it much better. |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons |
| Warm up before the start and cool down with a few of the boys afterwards. |
Tuesday Jul 10 |
| Orienteering race (Western Plains 1) 1:04:12 [5] ***** 9.62 km (6:40 / km) +415m 5:29 / km | |
| spiked:15/21c shoes: VJ Falcons |
| Bit of a weird race... mixture between some really good orienteering and making really stupid crap mistakes. Started bad with big mistakes on 1 and 4, then smaller ones on 3 and 6. Realising Toph had just caught me 3 minutes at 6 was enough to get me moving fast. Started running fairly well and reasonably cleanly. Tried to pull away from Toph from 9 onwards and got out of sight by 14. A small mistake on 15 and then a wobble on the way to 18 let him catch up again. Then we both ran off the map before 18... and lost a few minutes trying to figure out where we were. Thought it was pretty stupid to cut the map off so close to the course on such a technical leg. Put a last burst on to the finish.
Enjoyed the terrain.. pretty awesome map. Looking forward to Thursday's middle if I can start thinking properly out there.
Had a strange pain at a few stages down the muscle below my knee on the front. |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons |
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Monday Jul 9 |
| Running 20:09 [2] 3.56 km (5:40 / km) | |
| ahr:132 max:157 shoes: Brooks T4 Racer |
| Easy run with Patty and Em from Akuna Motel... mainly on the streets. Dubbo really isn't exciting... a big artificial lake was probably the most interesting find. Most of it was a battle with Patrick to try and get the greatest distance on our Garmins... by looking like idiots running around in circles on the streets. Unfortunately... Patty won :( |
Sunday Jul 8 |
| Orienteering (Dubbo Dash) 14:28 [5] ** 3.25 km (4:27 / km) | |
| max:192 spiked:17/17c shoes: Brooks T4 Racer |
| Dubbo Dash. Probably the easiest course I've done for a while... and the mass start made it even easier. Was good fun tho... and bloody dangerous at the same time. Saw some awesome stacks during the course... credit has to go to Bryan's stack on the concrete on the way to 2. Lost the lead going to the 5th and never got back in front. Happy to hold Matty P off tho. Didn't feel as fast as I thought it would... |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks T4 Racer |
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