Training Log Archive: Bomb

OY at White Rock. shit terrain, shit course, shit map.
first part of the course was average - easy controls, but had to run a bit slow cos of the long grass with heaps of rocks and fallen junk, then 5 was a bingo control on a badly mapped (ie, nothing mapped) hillside with low vis. wasted 10mins or so scouring the hillside and going back out to look for attackpoints on the track which didn't exist. was just about to give up and saw the flag. was ok for a few controls in the rocky stuff (and found a few people who had recently found their way back onto the map). made a big mistake on 14, and ended up too high, and too far along the rock, and was getting too tired and vague to concentrate properly.
nearly called it quits just before heading out to a stupid out-and-back control at 16 (especially as it started pissing with rain as I got to the track). was slow, but ok for the next few controls, but then wasted heaps of time on the massively wrongly mapped last control.
probably didn't help that I was still pretty tired from yesterday, and didn't really have the strength to run hard through the shit for too long, but the course and map were pretty bad.
got some extra strength training afterwards pushing cars out of the mud.

C • I'm glad i didnt go out the... 3

long run from Clares, with a fairly big bunch to start, then just wendy, then just me... mt coottha, slaughter falls, simpsons falls, ch9, boscome rd, and back to clares. last loop took a little longer than I thought it would, had only planned 2hrs. tried to work reasonably hard on the hills, and smashed it down ch9, which totally screwed my legs for the rest of the run. tired now. sat at clares for quite a while before I thought I could manage the drive home.

first one of these in the morning, and was smashed from the outset. legs still sore from yesterday, and half asleep. started to feel a bit better towards the end, but not enough for a decent time. maybe I need to go to work really early so I can run this in the afternoon again. not sure whether getting up to run or go to work at 5,30 is worse.

saw budda sitting on a log meditating on the top bit of track near the loop. small wtf moment.

ran home from work. a lot of running on concrete, so legs were pretty smashed by the end. backpack didn't bother me too much.

run into the city and back, a bit faster than I'd planned. ran into kieran and olly and stopped for a bit of a chat.