Sunday Mar 11 |
 | Run race ((orienteering)) 54:54 [4]*** 8.7 km (6:19 / km) +350m 5:15 / km | |
| spiked:14/16c |
| First State Series on Bungal. This is a gully-spur area, very fast on top of the plateau dropping to some mountain-goat stuff along the edges. Main problem today was simply not being fast enough - 7 down on Troy and 4 on Bruce and Warren. Lost a minute or so on 5 - plan was to drop to the riverbed (which was predictably waterless) but couldn't get through between a cliff and the green and had to go over the top of the cliff. Also lost a bit on 8 through being worried I was about to make a massive parallel error and going out to the side to make sure. One of the deepest local M21 fields we've seen for a long time. |
Saturday Mar 10 |
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| Event: Eureka Challenge Weekend
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| Run ((technical)) 25:00 [4]**** 4 km (6:15 / km) +120m 5:26 / km | |
| spiked:13/15c |
| Sprint training on the south end of Nerrina with various mass and tight chasing starts. Got left for pace at various times, but got the last laugh on the final sector when Troy's pack went astray and I went through the lot of them. Not bad for a first crack this season at technical mining. |
| Run race ((orienteering)) 50:58 [4]**** 7.3 km (6:59 / km) +360m 5:36 / km | |
| spiked:21/25c |
| Felt half-asleep an hour before the start, which I didn't think was a good sign (and it wasn't). Very slow to get going, particularly up hills, although the easy first couple of kilometres meant that I didn't pay for this as heavily as I might have somewhere else. A terrific technical course on Nerrina from there (thumbs-up to Geoff Lawford). Handled the navigation well for the most part, but then lost it a bit at the end - a couple of 30-seconders in the detail on 22 and 24, then made a mess of the final route choice looking for a dubious gap in the green at the bottom of a big erosion gully I didn't really need to cross at all. |
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| C • A strong early candidate for the course setting award. 3 |
Friday Mar 9 |
| Swimming 30:00 [2] 1 km (30:00 / km) | |
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| Par for the course. No massage on Friday morning this time (he's otherwise engaged at the athletics nationals) so went to Fitzroy. |
Thursday Mar 8 |
| Run 2:06:00 [3] 28 km (4:30 / km) | |
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| One of my better midweek long runs in recent weeks, feeling comfortable through most of it. A hilly first hour around Ivanhoe and Eaglemont (including a bit of dropping political newsletters in letterboxes en route), then flatter out along the Yarra and through Viewbank/Macleod later on. Actually encountered a bit of rain for about 15 minutes (and it was enough to register the princely sum of 0.4mm in the Viewbank gauge - bring out the sandbags!). Tired a little in the last 15 minutes but still not a bad finish. |
Wednesday Mar 7 |
| Run 1:01:00 [3] 13 km (4:42 / km) | |
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| Lovely morning for it, the coolest we've had in weeks. Not quite such a lovely run - didn't really get going, although handled the hills in the second half reasonably well. Glad I'm not in WA at present.
On other matters, looks like I'm the only taker from these parts for Jindabyne. Before I start looking for something, are any ACT/NSW readers staying at Buckenderra or nearby and interested in sharing accommodation on the Saturday night? |
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| C • Oven 4 |
| Run race ((time trial)) 17:54 [5] 5 km (3:35 / km) vdot: 56.7 | |
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| A respectable time trial at last (by my standards at least) on the Tan. Started a bit slowly but built nicely through the run and an excellent finish. Threatened to get a stitch around 3k but it didn't develop any further, and had no more than the usual number of distractions on the Tan (including having to do a bit of a sidestep to avoid flattening a couple of wandering Grade 1s outside the Observatory). Once again running solo but passed the Midday Milers bunch at one stage. Again warm, and windy, but not as humid as the last few Wednesdays.
My time for the full loop (taking off the first bit) was 13.49, only 3 seconds slower than last week with 1.17k extra at the start, no-one to run with and a morning run. Probably says something for how bad last week was.
Splits: 4.05 (1.17k), 3.41, 3.45, 3.35, 3.29 (last two overlap slightly). |
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| C • which race? 3 |
| Run 30:00 [3] 6.5 km (4:37 / km) | |
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| Run to/from the Tan. |
Tuesday Mar 6 |
| Run intervals 40:00 [4] 7 km (5:43 / km) | |
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| In the days when I was living in Albert Park, the signal for me to switch from fartlek to track intervals was when they started building grandstands on top of my then fartlek circuit. I don't think anyone is going to be building grandstands on Banyule Flats and adjacent areas any time soon, but this was still a good opportunity to shift to the track.
8 x 400 on a 2.5 minute cycle. Very slow start even by my usual standards (83), but got much better as it went on and a succession of 76s in the second half, pushing much more strongly through the later part of reps. Conditions perfect except for sun glare - first sub-15 morning for 25 days (as readers of this morning's 'Age' would know). |
Monday Mar 5 |
| Swimming 30:00 [2] 1 km (30:00 / km) | |
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| Swimming at Fitzroy. Felt a bit stronger in the upper body than usual. One interesting moment when someone passed me and moved across so quickly that I thought it was certain that his legs were going to collect me - until I noticed that he didn't have any legs. |
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| C • Is the message? 5 |
| Run 47:00 [2] 9 km (5:13 / km) | |
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| Monday night from Zoe's place near Melbourne Uni, up around Royal and Princes Park. Felt smooth and comfortable most of the way. Definite gender imbalance tonight - the women outnumbered the men 6-2 (7-2 if you count the Melbourne Uni meteorology postgrad who joined us for a few hundred metres). |