Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Event: Victorian Long Champs (SILVA NOL)
 

Folk Music Camps are very quiet in the morning, so I took an 8.00pm 'run'. Run is perhaps the wrong word for the second half of the outward journey. Its steep and very rocky in normal conditions. But this time the route involved climbing up rock slabs running with water hangong over cliffs. I cut the trip short after thinking Irisked doing a Water Minister.

Event: Australian Middle Champs (SILVA NOL)
 

Only one locational blunder, but a mediocre time. My mind was on the Roses Gap Music Camp, and orienteering was something to get over with before driving away. Pity really, as I had chosen to miss much of the first day of the camp to fit in this event. I like the map and I like Warren's course setting. I found the navigation surprisingly easy for my distracted condition. The only minor blunder was assuming a dirt wall would be passable and trying to go straight. I should have been safe and gone round. Maybe thats just bad luck. But I didn;t think about route choice and just went straight. As a consequence I dropped from 6th to 11th over two legs, 6 and 9. Both times I didn;t take the track option. For 6, I just didn''t see it. For 9 I saw it but wrongly assessed it as slower than straight.

C • where are ya? 2

I enjoyed putting out some controls for Evan on Browns Reef/BreakODay.
Only reason I have logged this is to note for those travelling down that:
1. the mid week terrain is open, softer than usual underfoot.
2. the weather forecast is good, after what looks likeit will be a winter weekend.
In other words, I think this will be remembered as a greattwo days of orienteering. Expect very fast kilometre rates. Try for a personal record. Shouldn't be hard for visiting Novocastrians, with perhaps one exception.

C • Hi, tried calling yo tonigh... 2

A morning run around the town of Corryong. Not much had changed overnight. Probably this observation is time-independent.

Off to Corryong today. There is a slim chance of a run in the mountain country, but weathe rlooks less than enticing. Back Thursday.

Surprised to have a still, clear, mild evening for a run around the streets of Corryong before the light ran out. Visited Jack Riley's grave because there was a sign pointing up the hill and I wanted a climb anyway. The Corryong cemetery prompted the thought as to what side of the horizontal-vertical quotient the town lies. Are there more in the cemetery or more still walking around?
Other points of interest discovered...
A bakery/cinema business for sale. With 70 seats it would house a sizeable proportion of the towns population. Probably the legacy of a moneyed enthusiast.
A 70s style sound shell in the Park. I went back with the fiddle after dark to try the acoustics... horrible.

Just stretching the legs to try and recover from yesterdays long run. Not really training or tapering for anything. Not running any of the Long Championships this carnival. I'll fit in a Middle and a relay.