Saturday Jul 19 |
 | Running warm up/down 5:20 [2]1 km (5:20 / km) +20m 4:51 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
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| Real Orienteering 39:10 [4]*** 6.8 km (5:46 / km) +130m 5:15 / km | |
| ahr:143 max:160 shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| The annual Ian Johnson Lyell Forest event. We know by now what to expect.... open country, limited climbing and accurate control placement. This means only one thing.. no excuse not to run as hard as you can on the red line. I didn't feel like a race today, with a cold, and a recovering back. But once I started I kept the heart rate monitor up above 140 most of the race. It was my fastest race for the year, almost breaking six minute kilometres. If you can take enjoyment out of a pounding heart and running straight at controls, this was a great day. |
| Real Orienteering warm up/down 22:49 [2]3.31 km (6:54 / km) +55m 6:22 / km | |
| ahr:111 max:132 shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| Picking up controls as a warm down. |
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| THE TEXT MESSAGE
Jool's phone has been rejecting text messages. After getting it fixed yesterday, the first message received was last night, from Big Ev. Due to a cancelled train, he missed the flight from Barcelona to Stockholm and had to buy a new ticket. Pls send money. Last I heard he had a new ticket and should be at O-Ringen in a few days time. And I was just about to place a bid on a 1916 Gibson A-1 mandolin. It would have cost pretty much the same as the new ticket. Good thing I hadn't placed the bid. |
Friday Jul 18 |
| Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1] | |
| (injured) |
| Getting a bit religious about the back exercise. |
| Running 23:00 [3]4.3 km (5:21 / km) +40m 5:07 / km | |
| ahr:133 shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| Back maintenance run. |
Thursday Jul 17 |
| Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1] | |
| (injured) |
| Embarrassment prevents me logging my weight. Due to sore back, have been taking certain medicines, which have the side effect of sending intestines to sleep. Anyone who has thought I am full of it can be assured they are on the money today. |
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| C • Relayed comment from Than... can't spell it. Geoff Hudson. 1 |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2]5 km (6:00 / km) +20m 5:53 / km | |
| ahr:120 (injured) shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| A delicate run, with very tight hamstrings after yesterday's hills, and a back problem resulting from bending down to pick up some socks.... |
| Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1] | |
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Tuesday Jul 15 |
| Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1] | |
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| Sore back. Remediation required. May be too late. Tomorrow will tell. |
| Running hills 37:59 [4]6.04 km (6:17 / km) +420m 4:40 / km | |
| ahr:132 max:150 shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| Punishment for stupidity and slackness on Sunday. Twelve climbs and descents of the Short St hill. Should be Short and Sharp street. |
| Running warm up/down 6:43 [2]1.02 km (6:35 / km) +10m 6:17 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| A cursory warm down so I could get in the car without fogging the windscreen. it fogged anyway. |
Monday Jul 14 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Jools thinks she saw Big Ev on the telecast of Le Tour! He and Murray were along the road about 27 k before the finish. Its a reasonable chance it was them. Not many people would be wearing and Australian O team track suit track top and be as tall as Murray. |
Sunday Jul 13 |
| Real Orienteering race 2:59:56 [3]24 km (7:30 / km) +565m 6:42 / km | |
| ahr:128 max:149 spiked:19/23c shoes: Brooks Thingummyjigs |
| The Maxi 3 hour. Why maxi? Does it mean anything?
Six errors. Four were navigational. In order:
Start: Wore tights, gaiters and a raincoat. Pulled the raincoat off early, but there was no room in the pack for anything else. For an hour I was comfortable, but then the weather improved and soon enough I was overheating. I found a stash near the main road at 90 minutes and peeled it all off. This took a bit over three minutes. At that stage, being lured by easy bitumen running I made a major strategic error. More later.
Control 55: Lured away from my line by Bruce Paterson.. Sorry allowed myself to be lured away. Went past control. Lost 3.30.
Control 44: In an effort to get away from Bruce, took the dangerous route choice. Went past a gully as I was too low down the hill. 2.00 minutes.
Control 33: Veered to the east into a parallel gully. 2.00 minutes.
After 49: 90 minutes. Changed clothing. Ran north on the bitumen to warm up with just shorts and short sleeved shirt. Should have gone south and forgotten about controls 57, 38 and 47. This had major implications later in the race.
Control 48: Went too low across a hill traverse, counted an extra gully and started looking too early. 2.00 minutes.
At this stage I am 6 k of direct running from the finish with 40 minutes in hand. I finally decide to drop controls. Dropping 59 was easy. The direct route back was through 40 and 36, with a small detour to an intermediate 60. Dropped 37. At this stage I had 2.7 k direct to finish and 14 minutes. I had to drop the remaining 5 controls and run as hard as I could to get back without going missing the deadline. Travelled at about 5 .20 pace for the next 15 minutes. It was gradually downhill, but it still hurt at this stage of a 3 hour. Got the heart rate up to 149. Arrived back with 4 seconds to spare. Pleased with that.
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| C • Timing 6 |