Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Walking 1:30:00 [1] 10.0 km (9:00 / km)

Running 44:26 [3] 6.88 km (6:27 / km) +100m 6:01 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 1:15:00 [1] 5.0 km (15:00 / km)

Walking 1:00:00 [2] 3.0 km (20:00 / km) +80m 17:39 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Course setting race (Mt Tarrengower) 55:07 [3] *** 6.01 km (9:10 / km) +250m 7:36 / km
spiked:6/7c shoes: Kayana White/green

Test run of one of Julies courses.

Walking 1:30:00 [1] 7.0 km (12:51 / km)

Running 44:00 [2] 5.4 km (8:09 / km) +150m 7:09 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Running 31:43 [3] 5.1 km (6:13 / km) +30m 6:02 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 2:00:00 [1] 6.0 km (20:00 / km) +50m 19:12 / km

Running 40:00 [3] 6.0 km (6:40 / km) +80m 6:15 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Running warm up/down 9:10 [2] 1.35 km (6:47 / km)
shoes: Kayana White/green

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running hills 11:28 [5] 1.35 km (8:30 / km) +220m 4:41 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 1:30:00 [3] 6.0 km (15:00 / km)

Rock climbing 20:00 [3]

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Technical training 1:44:30 [3] 13.15 km (7:57 / km) +120m 7:36 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Real Orienteering race (Borhoney Ghurk) 43:24 [4] **** 4.27 km (10:10 / km) +165m 8:31 / km
spiked:14/17c shoes: Kayana White/green

Vic Middle- blow by blow
0-1 Realised the green was worthy pf respect. So slowed down to make sure my quickroute trace was red and would stand out later on. A green trace would disappear.
Also kept to the top and then veered right when it felt about time.
1-2 Kept on the top and turned left when the mining detail appeared.
2-3 Bendigo red line technique worked well until I reach the cliff just before the control. Rockclimbing skills helped me keep on the red line.
3-4 Looks like I climbed another cliff. Can't say I noticed. Was keen to bypass the piles of rubble on the red line.
4-5 Tried to red line but failed to climb as I did, so was a little low. First error.
5-6 Red lining worked
6-7 Red lined but again failed to climb. Hd to at the endof the leg. Error 2.
7-8 Red lining required another cliff climb. Well actually bloody steep hill climb. As the control was on top, there was no point trying to go round.
8-9 Red line through detail
9-10 Almost red line through detail.
10-11 I did think about an attack point strategy, but in the end red lined, hoping to collect myself on the cliff on the line. Didn't see it, though the GPS said I went right next to it. weird. And so made the significant error of the run. Error 3 cost 2-3 minutes.
11-12 Suspicious of red line, so too a more careful route. Which was a waste of time. This was a red line control.
12-13 Down into the gully and ran along the bottom to avoid needing to think. Apparently there was a second control up top which cause the best fun of the day... but that was when I finished.
14-15 Red line
15-16 red line
16-17 Track
17-F track
Arrived at finish to hear Chris N discussing his dnf due to that control pair at 14. I enjoyed claiming Roch and I (2nd and 3rd to his 1st) would protest if he was reinstated. Pity I couldn't stop smiling so I wasn't very believable.
How can a setting mistake like this happen. Very easily actually. I have come close myself. It comes from making late tweaking to courses, and no longer looking at the interaction between courses. Quite human. Other than that, I thought this was one of the better Rex Niven courses. Good terrain helps as well. The regrowth improves the challenge.

Real Orienteering race (Browns Reef) 47:55 [3] *** 6.78 km (7:04 / km) +125m 6:28 / km
spiked:8/10c shoes: Kayana White/green

The misses weren't very significant.
Speaking of misses, this course was set by two young ladies in the club. At a guess Leisha is 18 and Corrina about 15. They put a lot of thought into the task and it shows. Its a very good sign for the future of Victorian orienteering.

Walking 1:30:00 [1] 7.5 km (12:00 / km)

Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.7 km (7:09 / km)
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 2:00:00 [1] 10.0 km (12:00 / km)

Rock climbing 20:00 [3]

Walking 1:30:00 [1] 6.0 km (15:00 / km)

Running 35:00 [3] 4.2 km (8:20 / km) +50m 7:52 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 2:30:00 [1] 10.0 km (15:00 / km)
shoes: Kayana White/green

Back, core and achilles 25:00 [1]

Running intervals 13:30 [5] 2.76 km (4:53 / km) +10m 4:48 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Running warm up/down 14:02 [2] 2.27 km (6:11 / km) +12m 6:01 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 2:15:00 [1] 9.0 km (15:00 / km)

Real Orienteering race (Chewton Diggings) 1:06:46 [4] *** 8.3 km (8:03 / km) +300m 6:49 / km
spiked:7/8c shoes: Kayana White/green

A true long style course on the right sort of country- lots of good sized hills and quite a few tracks. Some punters don't like this, thinking Chewton is only for Middle Distance, describing this as a runners course. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the long discipline. Its a tough nuts course. Course 2 at 6.8 k and 300 metres climb was tough. I didn't have any navigational failings, but I finished unsure I had chosen the correct routes and also feeling like it had been a hard day. Thats correct for long.

Back, core and achilles 30:00 [1]

Running 35:12 [3] 5.19 km (6:47 / km) +70m 6:21 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Running 10:00 [2] 1.6 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: Kayana White/green

Running hills 5:36 [3] 0.75 km (7:28 / km) +125m 4:04 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green

Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.75 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: Kayana White/green

Walking 2:15:00 [1] 9.0 km (15:00 / km)

Running 1:16:00 [2] 10.56 km (7:12 / km) +60m 7:00 / km
shoes: Kayana White/green