Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

8.8k straight line. 240m climb possible.
Notable day in a number of ways.
First, lovely terrain with good course setting. The emphasis was upon long rather than middle. As a consequence I felt much more in control than yesterday. I am realising that my strengths are spur/gully and granite. I have some improving to do gold mining terrain. In fact, after the Lithuanian experience, I'd feel more in control there than in this complex mining terrain. Still, I only made two error sof significance. One was entering an erosion area too early. I worked that out straight away, so lost perhaps a minute and a half. The other was actually the second last real control, being spur gully. Came in too high and turned up rather than down. I had relaced the mind at that stage. There were another 4 controls where I was a little messy in the circle. Came in on the wrong side of the feature. Stuff like that. Comes from not reading the control descriptions. A bad habit developed in Bendigo spur-gully terrain. I'm not going to count that as a spike anymore. A spike is a spike is a spike.
Second notable occurrence. Injury free!. I assumed that sledge was going to be course 2 (10k). I knrew this was silly with my achilles problem. Intended to to course 4, but saw that Ian Dood had run course 3. So I changed plans and gave that a go. I half expected to be limping by the end. No warmup before racing. But the achilles gave little problem. Was able to run to the end!
I'll have to check the NOL results to see if I am challenging Clara for last now.

Here is the analysis of the FOOL.
Men it was pretty simple. Because the big names were overseas, there wasn't much in the way of financial constraint. You could buy the top three scorers for less than 60k. You needed Uphill, Jackson, Crane and Robby Preston. The latter two were vastly underpriced. I was on the combination, but so was everyone else.
The women was not so simple. You could not buy the top three scorers for 60k. Grace is the one of these three not to have. Best combination was Anna Sheldon, Kathryn and Kirsten. The only addition possible that would raise the score of these three was the vastly underpriced Anna Quayle. It wasn't possible to shift a surplus from the men to women to improve on it. Unles syou had a trade profit.

I wasn't on that combo. In fact, I think I stuffed my calculations in the trades.So this might all be utter crap.

C • FOOL 2

I shouldn't have done this. It reduced the achilles pain free time available for the race.

Great terrain, great map. What a weekend!
Achilles after 35 minutes. Not bad enough to stop me running, just to slow me down.
In the FOOL it seems I have chosen the optimum selections for the "Cousins Option" team. That selection was easy for the men, but the womens results are a real mix up. Only Grace Elson achieved a top 5 placing on both sprint and Middle. Unless you made an enormous profit in the previous round, you can only afford to buy three of the 5 who got top three placings on either day. The best selection of the 5 is Grace, Anna S and Katheryn. You also needed to have the cheap buy of Anna Quayle. That gave 1,2,5 for the sprint and 1,3,5 for the Middle. Thats what I had. Of course, its all too late. I made a meal of my Easter selections.
Makes the Long race very interesting. Jo A will appear in the results I imagine after missing sprint and 7 in Middle. That will spread the scores around.
Pity the WOC selectors. The long becomes the real selection race for the domestic men, and it will decide quite a few places for the women now.

C • I'm hoping for wooden-spoon pr... 3

Achilles exercises

Achilles exercises

14.40 on the ascents. this was meant to be tomorrow, but tomorrow looks like a Liggo day.
"Climb Every Mountain"

Whilst the brain was wandering amongst the hill ascents, I decided another discussion theme....

Life's Big Questions
Todays subject matter is 'Healthy Easting for a Healthy Life".
The question... should Hedgehog slice ooze or break? Creamy soft or soft biscuit consistency?

Today song has to be...
"Misty" by Garner and Burke. Lounge music standard. Also a Clint Eastwood film prop.
Tempo planned, but didn't feel up to it. So will do some more tonight when the body feels less creaky.

Two Neagars

Three neangars to complete what I was too slack to manage this morning.

"In the early morning rain". ... Gordon Lightfoot I believe.

C • Singing in the Rain 7