Training Log Archive: Bomb

NOL long distance Awoonga. Another very annoying race. made one mistake - but it was a big one. lost the plot on the way across to 5 and didn't climb enough, so got all the creeks confused. ended up relocating on the guys control on the termite mound. lost at least 5 mins on that one, and a fair bit of motivation. tried to keep the pace going for the rest, but its a bit hard when you know its all over. managed to get around the rest without any mistakes, although perhaps could have saved a bit of climb out of 13. hit the wall right at the end, and the run across to 17 was a bit of a random stagger. splits for all but 5 were pretty similar to shannons and kathryns, which just makes it more annoying.

feeling better than yesterday which was a bit surprising (and good!) after it seemed like my cold was on its way back.

pretty frustrated with the whole weekend, and not just cos I screwed up the selection trials. the orienteering was generally pretty good, and there was plenty of stuff to be happy about - I think I'm running better than I have been, and starting to get a good race-mode back; even if only for parts of the course - but nice after 18 months of battling injuries. but instead of being happy with that I'm pissed off cos of 3 bad controls. poo

Event: SILVA National Orienteering League
 

NOL sprint at CIT. Pretty clean run, but took the wrong way round the buildings on a couple of controls - 2, 7 and to the finish. still not sure about the finish one - right is shorter on the map, but 50% longer in the splits - weird.
lungs struggled with the hard running, and from about 1/3 of the way through I was feeling really short of breath. coughed up heaps of junk after though.

NOL middle at wild deer sands. stuffed the first one, didn't see the termite mound under the pile of logs, so ran on, the figured I was too far and too low and ran back and saw it on the way back (1min). got the next few ok - bit of a hesitation on 3, but relocated quickly. lost another minute on 9 - ran down the gully, but lost contact a bit and turned in early. had trouble relocating, and started looking up in the white instead of down in the yellow. did a full lap of the thicket on 11, and was a bit hesitant running up into the nothing on 12. wish I could stop making dumb mistakes.
lungs felt much clearer this afternoon, but legs were a bit empty on the hills.

easy run round uni, with 3x500m to test out the legs a bit. 1.44, 1.46 and 1.45. fast enough, but still don't feel that great running.

very easy run to see if I could. legs didn't feel too bad (but I really was going slow), but lungs still felt pretty tight and clogged up.

serious downside to sister being a nurse - she caught a nasty case of gastro from a patient. she's in quarantine now.

snot-headness threatening to turn into snot-lungness, so might hold of running for another day.

getting better (ie, going to uni), but still a bit of a snot-head. hopefully I'll be well enough to go for a little jog tomorrow.