Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Local event on Smiths Reef. Chose to do course 1 for a change. Needed to log a longer run this week and course 1 is close to that these days. Also suspected that the best leg of the day was only on course 1. So it proved to be. Advised other regular course 2 runners to try course 1 and all agreed it ws the best choice.
Four errors.
2 Lost 1.45 by thumbing over control and running for 3 instead. Realised error before doing full damage, but still gave away almost 2 minutes.\
6 Slightly to the left. Finding the one big pit in amongst the hundred required dead accurate nav or good luck. I took the latter. Lost 20 seconds.
8 The long leg through the featureless plain. Veered to right to tag a later control as a way point. Veered too far and had to run down the road till I saw a side gully. Lost 1.10
9 The leg of the day. It doesn't look too hard, but I managed to make it otherwise. Vague gully count until entering a series of parallel gullies. Hit the correct one, but in the simplification process overlooked that the control was on a small spur to the side of the gully. Ran right past and further up the gully. Lost 1.50. Looking at the control its hard to see how it could cause trouble. But Ted, Julie, Nigel and Craig all made this similar error or went up the wrong gully. Didn't talk to anyone who spiked it. Nomination for leg of the year. Quite out of keeping with much of the rest of the course.
After 9 the extra distance really started to bite, that and not eating since 7.00pm the day before. I think my legs hit the wall when faced with two hills on the second last leg. It was hard to mainatin any sort of pace. The others who promoted themselves from course 2 for the day had similar experiences.

Into the fourth week of sticking to the fitness plan (sort off) and now starting to see the green shoots.