Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Even more fun. A long style race in the full Cantara Dunes area. Made the requisate number of errors until I deduced that regrowth mean white on the map was often green. This is a fantastic map. One of Australia's best. I needs an update for the current vegetation. Looks unlikely that will ever happen. So everyone who wants to claim they are an Australian orienteer should run here before the map is retired. I tend towards the position that there are few harder navigation challenges in Australian orienteering.
Jools swore she would never run here again after dnfing in 1994. I finally enticed her back (I had made two more visits in the meantime). She finished the course this time. In recognition of this feat, she purchased a bottle of champagne tonight. I drank to her achievement, and the joy of running in this area. Well, running, walking and even crawling.

CANTARA EVENT ON ROUTE GADGET (Courses 1,2,3)
I'll put my route up tomorrow. Sporttrack software is failing me. I need to find a new way of creating a gpx file. In the meantime, I look forward to seeing any other routes on there. I'll sool Jools onto it tomorrow.

Warm up run for the SA Sprint Champs. They don't get much better than this- an undulating track through sand, not too soft, not too hard. Like the bear story.. just right.

A load of fun. Sprint orienteering racing in the norrthern section of Cantara Dunes. This is my style of sprint orienteering. Fast running, natural terrain, challenging navigation. I failed to catch on early that straight line was often not the best option. A minor highlight was dead heating for third. I have never dead heated before for a placing. The low average heart rate indicates the logging of times of confusion.

Even fuller of it.

Diagnosis confirmed. Optimistic outlook is limiting myself to 3 runs a week, probably 30-45 minutes max. Its either turn to blubber, or visit the pool and ride a bike. Blubber sounds appealling. Running might eventually be extended with recourse to ice, transverse massage, pre and post run eccentric stretching, paracetamol, diclofenac... I go no further, other than to observe that i was ahead of the physio on the drug regime! Yesterday's run was a product of this strategy.

Managed a short distance without inflaming the tendon.

Back into the core and back exercise, once again combined with eccentric achilles stretching. I think this latter problem is something I will have to grow accustomed to.

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A worrying sentence:
"Due to the potentially long recovery time, some cognitive behavioural strategies for goal implementation may need to be established."
Refers to management strategies for my recurring achilles problem. Sounds like a sentence in more ways than one.

Done some more reading on the problem. Maybe its time to go invisible again.