Sunday Sep 24 |
| |
| Event: ACT Championships
|
| |
| Event: Victorian State League #11 Mt Tarrengower
|
 | Run race ((orienteering)) 1:28:30 [4]**** 10.8 km (8:12 / km) +460m 6:45 / km | |
| spiked:24/27c |
| One of those days where I never really flowed, and seemed to keep picking the rougher side of the line. Not particularly strong up the hills either. Lost 1.5 minutes at 8 and 30 seconds at 9, and got caught by Gareth at that point; sort of stayed in touch with him through the middle section of the course. Didn't miss much from there but not particularly quick (and picked Gareth up again at the third-last after he made an error).
7th was probably about a par result in the best M21 field in Australia this year, but should have been a bit closer to the big guns than I actually was. Very impressive effort of Julian coming off a long layoff.
Honeysuckle Creek isn't the lovely bit of bush it was before the fire, but the runnability isn't too radically different - not as many really thick bits, but also not as many really open bits (or maybe it's just that the courses didn't take us into them very much). |
| |
| C • SBS World News 4 |
Saturday Sep 23 |
| Run 1:04:00 [3] 14 km (4:34 / km) | |
| |
| Up in Canberra for ACT Championships weekend, assuming there is an ACT Championships and that we don't have a total fire ban declared on us tomorrow. (It will be a pity to lose the event, especially as it's got just about the best field on offer in Australia this year, but it's a definite risk, as Friday indicates that total fire bans are being declared on days which aren't genuinely extreme and I fear the same may happen tomorrow).
Anyway, went out for a pleasant, steady run on Black Mountain and Bruce Ridge - a solid run with little sign of soreness and reasonable hill strength, on a morning which felt like it belonged in December. Ran into Grant, Shannon et al in the middle and turned around to go with them for a bit, then encountered some familiar MTBers on Bruce Ridge.
The latter group were useful as they were able to tell me how to get out of Bruce Ridge now that the routes I was used to using have been cut off by the road construction - normally it would have been tempting to cut across anyway but there was actually work going on in the area today. This detour made the run a bit longer than planned, as well as introducing some unscheduled (if straightforward) terrain running. |
Thursday Sep 21 |
| Run 1:46:00 [3] 23 km (4:37 / km) | |
| |
| Never felt particularly comfortable - hip more of a nuisance than in the last week or so, and like last night, feeling lethargic on the hills. At its best in the last 20 minutes after long stretches of plugging away. |
| |
| C • Multiple sessions 1 |
Wednesday Sep 20 |
| Run 1:01:00 [3] 13 km (4:42 / km) | |
| |
| A pleasant session, much of it on the small tracks along the Yarra between Gipps Street and the pipeline bridge. Picked the pace up quite nicely at the end.
Waking up to the radio reporting a round-up of where all the bushfires are and their current status is not something one expects in Victoria in September. (No maps affected as far as I know). |
| Run 52:00 [3] 11 km (4:44 / km) | |
| |
| Ran a street-O event, not very fast. Made a route choice error from the start and was playing catch-up from there onwards, not that I was that concerned about the result (otherwise I would have run faster). Not a great run - took a while to get going and lacked energy on the hills. |
Tuesday Sep 19 |
| Run intervals 39:00 [5] 7 km (5:34 / km) | |
| |
| 8 x 400 session on a 2.5 minute cycle, 10 minutes each way to warm up/warm down. Lap times: 81, 78, 78, 78, 77, 75, 75, 77. First time I've done a track session for a while, partly because the Clifton Hill track was being rebuilt - nice surface now.
Not a bad session, particularly in the second half. Went a little bit lactic on the last couple of reps but nothing like the DS session two weeks ago.
The north wind was well and truly in. In January that would mean 40 degrees was awaiting us; it's not quite like that in September but it was still pretty warm. If there's going to be a wind at all on this track a northerly's not a bad one to have, as it's a headwind on the first bend and a tailwind when it really starts hurting around 300. |
| |
| C • clifton hill track 3 |
Monday Sep 18 |
| Run 48:00 [2] 10 km (4:48 / km) | |
| |
| The MFR Monday night run. Felt pretty smooth at a fairly easy pace. Spent a fair bit of it with Tash and Anna Skarbek trying between us to work out how to solve Victoria's water problems.
(On the evidence of today's radio talkback, most people here seem to think that the main reason for Victoria's water problems is all those people wasting the stuff in (insert name of place a safe distance from where caller comes from here), which isn't exactly productive). |
| |
| C • Water politics 2 |