Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Control site and map checking for Crusoe Heights Pseud-O. Ironic that this will be the clubs first introduction to the largest previously unmapped area of bush adjacent to bendigo suburbs.

Another go at extending the Mt Korong map. Its really intimidating looking at all the rock and then convincing yourself you can map it. I can only last 3 hours and then I'm mentally exhausted. Spent much of the time remapping the edges of Alex's work. Its a good way to understand his style.
Only logged 1 hour of walking. Its a guess. More mental than physical training.

Back on the job. Nigel organised a scatter event at Smiths Reef. There were 25 starters, and the auto-results system picked 16 different variation in the first six controls. This course divergence suggests a well set course. I didn't settle on my final control order till half way around the course. Often the scatter order is sorted within the first minute or so. That's why I don't have a great love for this format. At least with a score event you have the time vs points trade-off in the final 5-10 minutes. I do like that particular adrenalin rush. Its just that it takes the rest of the race to get there. In a couple of weeks we settle into line course fomat for the season proper and I'm looking forward to that. Give me middle distance courses in complex terrain, or good long course setting in our spur gully. I agree with Alex Tarr's comments in the latest Australian orienteer. We get too few great long courses. Many of our local maps are unsuitable for middle distance. So if it's not Tarrengower, Kooyoora, Korong, Diamond Hill, or the mining detail of Fiddlers and Kangaroo, I want to run long legs that leave me wondering if I chose the best route.

Picking up controls. We tried hanging SI gear today. I hate it, and so do a few others. In a few weeks we will have the stands sorted out. Looking forward to that as well. Tonight the task is sorting out event download using SIME. None os us has really mastered it yet.

Tonight's Iron Chef was one out of the box. Truly awe-inspiring cooking by Harada. I wish I had the money to eat at the Kyoto Brighton Hotel! I wish I could cook like that.

Felt too humid to run hard, so I decided if it was slow running I might as well do something else. Embarrassed myself by having too much fun, so I'll have to ration myself. Back to running tomorrow.

Spring Gully street map. mediocre run. Pretty good area as far as Pseud-O goes.

C • Spring Gully 2

Something like fartlek. Maybe fartlots.
Don't know why I leave my brain in a bucket when I buy running tops. Went out in the new top and realised.. yep, its blue. So it is a March Fly magnet. Gave up on the forest and went back to the roads for som epeace and quiet.

Rest day. Off to family birthday party. I'll try not to eat too much and undo the gains in the weight box.