Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Some good photos of orienteers in the latest R4YL, although worra's name was spelt incorrectly and Miss Jones probably won't be too pleased to see herself referred to as a "former elite orienteer" (while in the process of doing the same time, to the second, for a half-marathon as I did for my last one).

Metro event at Plenty Gorge. Might not have gone to this had my club not been organising Stiffer than usual after a long run - obviously I still have some work to do getting used to proper long runs again - and it's probably fairly marginal as to whether this should be classified as a race effort.

Got off to a very unpromising start when the first control was in the wrong place. I lost 3 minutes here (Bruce also lost a fair bit of time). Took a while to get my motivation going again after that, but started to settle down in the middle third; never super-fast though. The course was a good deal kinder than it can be here, with no river crossings and most legs having options to stay high out of the steep areas (options generally worth taking).

Bruce's 10k PB obviously took less out of him, as he did 45.

I thought I might have had more running today, in the form of collecting the more far-flung controls, but I got back from my first lot of control collecting (a stroll around the easy course) to discover that Tim Dent was already off doing it.