Thursday May 31 |
 | Gym 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| strength work at race elements with Imo. Simon continues to come up with new methods of torture. all this gym work does seem to be working though - I can now actually do multiple chin-ups without needing to cheat (not sure how this helps my orienteering though) |
| Running 1:15:00 [4] | |
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| run + hill session with pat's group. felt surprisingly good given that my running has been rather occasional in the last week and the gym session was pretty tough. |
Wednesday May 30 |
| Cycling 28:00 [3]12 km (2:20 / km) | |
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| cruised into kangaroo point to go climbing. battled the commuter-world-cup along coro drive. |
Tuesday May 29 |
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| (sick) (rest day) |
| feeling a bit crap... for a few days now, so going to take a few easy days to see if I can avoid getting properly sick.
I probably should use the time previously allocated to training to marking that pile of assignments that I've been ignoring. |
Sunday May 27 |
| Cycling 2:00:00 [3]55 km (2:11 / km) | |
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| ride from boonah with Dan, Nic and Lisa. out towards mt alford, round lake moogerah and to the cafe in kalbar for waffles! then back to boonah. |
Saturday May 26 |
| Running 2:30:00 [3] | |
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| long run through mt barney national park. ran from waterfall gully over cleared ridge, down yamara creek to barney creek and out from lower portals. last 15mins in the dark. |
Friday May 25 |
| Cycling 1:50:00 [4]50 km (2:12 / km) | |
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| trolls. felt like shit. first ride for a while and it was actually quite cold out this morning (relative to the amount of warm gear I was wearing!) |
Thursday May 24 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| morning run in the frost in Orange |
| Orienteering race 18:28 [5]3.4 km (5:26 / km) | |
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| sprint race in orange. hanny got me by 2mins, but I managed to beat all the juniors luckily!. map was the mental hospital, so there was a bit of crazy stuff going on behind the big fences - one dude was having a major tantrum! |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday May 23 |
| Running 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| morning run from the scout camp |
| Orienteering 1:40:00 [4] | |
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| put out controls then shadowed the juniors around at gumble creek - route choice exercise with really long legs. |
Saturday May 19 |
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| Event: Aust. JWOC Trials
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Friday May 18 |
| Note | |
| (sick) (rest day) |
| what a crap week. was tired after the weekend... so took monday off. then felt tired and sick on tuesday and wednesday, and since then work has gone crazy, and I haven't slept, and I feel like total shite and I've had a headache since sunday arvo. I'm finally in canberra for the nol races, so I can't actually do any work, but I think I've totally forgotten how to sleep. somehow I think I might not be racing so well this weekend... |
Monday May 14 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| felt a bit crap today, so decided to sleep in and skip trolls. |
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| C • sleep ins 3 |
Sunday May 13 |
| MTBO race 1:34:00 [3]27 km (3:29 / km) | |
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| MTBO at Esk forest. probably would have been better off sleeping in. misting rain that was enough to be really annoying without actually wetting the ground, and certainly not enough to make the sand patches rideable. Never really got particularly motivated, and ended up getting beaten by a couple of minutes on course 1.
Dragged Imo and Dan out - Imo had some big adventures and ended up in a cow paddock off the map, but finished halfway down in course 1. Dan flew round, but had punched the wrong first control.
Helen and Craig raced as well - Craig was on his new bike he bought for $180 on e-bay which gave us all a good laugh. I think he had a rather frustrating day, and realised how much of a POS his bike really was (I don't think he really believed us). but he still finished in about 3 and a half hours! |
Saturday May 12 |
| Running 1:05:00 [3] | |
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| this was meant to be a long run, but as I felt totally shite I shuffled back to clares early for yummy breakfast. |
Friday May 11 |
| Cycling 1:50:00 [4]50 km (2:12 / km) | |
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| trolls ride. started easy, but got stupidly fast through chelmer. managed to hold on till yeronga, but then got dropped. rained on us about 5 mins before coffee. took a while to realise what was going on! |
Thursday May 10 |
| Gym 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| training at Race Elements with Imo. Simon had a whole heap of new nasty exercises for us - the worst was an asymetric bench press where you have to hold one end of the bar so all the weight is in one hand and pulling you sideways off the bench. |
Wednesday May 9 |
| Cycling 1:50:00 [3]50 km (2:12 / km) | |
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| usual trolls ride. still feeling a little tired from the weekend. |
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| C • CONGRATS 6 |
| Orienteering hills 35:00 [3] | |
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| the usual anzac park hill run with Rachel... except I was totally shite and Rachel dropped me almost immediately. Rachel ran really well, but I just bludged around and skipped a loop to catch up. oh well, good to be out doing something I guess.
went climbing afterwards and had to shout gelati cos I used my knees. |
Tuesday May 8 |
| Running 50:00 [4]11 km (4:33 / km) | |
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| run before and after intervals |
| Running intervals 17:00 [5]3 km (5:40 / km) | |
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| 5 * 2mins with 1 min recovery + jog back to track. wasn't feeling to great tonight, but didn't feel as bad as I expected. |
Monday May 7 |
| Cycling 1:20:00 [3]35 km (2:17 / km) | |
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| recovery ride into the city and back with Dan. |
Sunday May 6 |
| Orienteering race 1:17:52 [5]10.5 km (7:25 / km) | |
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| Long distance trial at Creswick diggings. Started so badly! lost heaps of time on all of the first 3 controls and nearly called it quits, but gave myself a good talking to and took off up the hill to 4. from control 3 on I had a really good race, and felt really strong to the end... just a pity it wasn't quite long enough to catch up the time I'd lost at the start! |
Saturday May 5 |
| Orienteering race 18:46 [5]2.9 km (6:28 / km) | |
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| Sprint race at monash uni in melbourne. A bit early in the morning for running that fast, and thinking that hard. Tried to go through some doors that wouldn't open on the way to #1. I think I got all the right route choices, it just took me a little longer than it should have to figure them out at times! stuffed up at the end coming out of #10 cos I didn't see the buildings on the map that were covered in out of bounds symbol. |
| Orienteering race 31:48 [5]4.4 km (7:14 / km) | |
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| Middle distance trial on Petticoat Gully. After a lot of very average runs I really needed at good result, and I certainly did that! I started pretty fast, but didn't take the best route between some of the earlier controls cos I was running too fast to read the map properly, but still hit the controls ok. got things sorted from 4 on, and started running a lot more smoothly between controls. picked up the pace in the open section in the middle of the course (but destroyed my tights running through a thick patch of trees). I was totally wreaked coming up the hill, and nearly lost it on the control after the spectator (went way too low), but relocated quickly enough. Staggered up the hill at the end with very empty legs!
I was really happy with the intensity of running and navigation I managed to maintain through the whole race - definitely one of my best!! |
| Running warm up/down 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| before and after races |
Friday May 4 |
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| Event: Aust. WOC Trials
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| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| bludge day before the big weekend (although ended up being too busy to do anything anyway!) |
Thursday May 3 |
| Cycling 1:20:00 [3]35 km (2:17 / km) | |
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| river ride with lisa |
Wednesday May 2 |
| Running 35:00 [5] | |
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| anzac park run with rachel. feeling pretty crap and didn't end up running very fast, but it still hurt lots. rachel burnt me on the last couple of hills. |
Tuesday May 1 |
| Running 26:00 [4]6 km (4:20 / km) | |
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| ran down to the track and did the 5k warm up loop with the guys. been feeling a bit sick all day and spent the whole run struggling not to chuck so decided my training was over after that and went home.
very strange thing happened - I nearly rolled my r ankle but managed to save it, but instead of feeling any pain in my ankle I got a really sharp nerve pain in my r wrist! |