Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

A mostly wet day. Only got the enthusiasm for a run after the rain stopped. The run was cut short by failing light. It will have to do. Its been a marathon day for orienteering administration. I think I have done nothing else but that and the run between the hours of 10am and midnight. The list, as far as I can remember.
Get the results and Route Gadget up on the web site for Saturday's event.
Sort out the web site front page with full details of the upcoming State League event.
Draft and redraft the Lyell Creek event for Pater Galvin. I think in future I will stick to the adage.. no map amendments by telephone.
Clean up the condes file for the SS event.
Create and populate the OE2003 file for the Lyell Creek event with courses, classes and entrants. 66 entrants are in. Entries arriving after Sunday can wait til Wednesday. I'm away on work the next three days..
Create a map for the following weeks Black Jack Gully event based on Ian Johnson's fieldwork. I didn't need this one, but its a labour of love. I think its a good area and I would like to see Ian Johnson enjoying people running on it. Its almost impossible to recondile the 8 A4 sheets of fieldwork. I wish I's been able to give Ian a rudimentary base map before he started.
Creating a condes file for Ian Johnson's course.
Mailing the above two items to Ian on Monday morning.
I'm away in Hobart next weekend. Won't be at orienteering. I'm feeling very good about that. I'm tired of all this labour for the sport.

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.

Picking up controls as a warm down.

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.

Getting a bit religious about the back exercise.

Back maintenance run.

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.

C • Relayed comment from Than... can't spell it. Geoff Hudson. 1

A delicate run, with very tight hamstrings after yesterday's hills, and a back problem resulting from bending down to pick up some socks....

Sore back. Remediation required. May be too late. Tomorrow will tell.

Punishment for stupidity and slackness on Sunday. Twelve climbs and descents of the Short St hill. Should be Short and Sharp street.

A cursory warm down so I could get in the car without fogging the windscreen. it fogged anyway.

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.