Training Log Archive: nmulder

Ran the Brown course at Kloofendal from last week's event. Nice and fun for training. Interesting to see the splits and route choices compared to everyone else.

1 - went right and was suffering already at the first bit of climb past the out of bounds.
5 - Went left along the path and contoured in on top of the cliffs. Bad route choice, seem to have lost at least 20s.
6 - Went high route.
7 - North-west through the white all the way to the hiking trail and up that.
9 - RC along the fence.
11 - AP from the fence corner
12 - Went straight up the hill but should probably have taken RC up the fire break to the SE.
14 - Contoured around, seemed to work well, but hit patch of stoney ground towards the end.
18 - Exited 17 to NE, instead of the better SE direction.

Ran the new trails on the NE side of the reserve afterwards.

Brown - 5.5 km - Splits

Rode out at Heia Safari with Mac on the red route and half of the yellow route. Hectic Berg wind going at about 35km/hr.

Mac side-wall sliced on the red route. We tubed it and kept going. Fun technical stuff, especially the latest tracks on the red.

Av 15.2 Mx 40.2

Loop around Fourways Gardens, with the Frederic Road hill included.

Out through Jukskei Park, Malibongwe to Cosmo City then back roads and trails of Farmall / Lion Park area.

Av 21.3 Mx 61.6

Nathan gave me a head start, then started reeling me in from about 2km. 15s faster than last week.

C • 16:00 2

Run out past Fourways Mall, through Lonehill and Beverly A/H.

Mountain Marathon at Rocky Valley (Laurentia South)

Most of the terrain was burnt which made it more runnable, but a lot of the course stayed on the rocky ridges.

Messed up #1 by punching #24 first. Then settled down into a good rhythm and got sight of Eugene (-9 min) going into #6. Was about to catch him at #9 when we chose different route choices to #10, me running north side of the ridge nad him going south and over. His route was about 30s faster and I missed the control, failing to see Eugene coming out. Lost about 1 min, then also missed 4 mins on #11 where the control was hung on a crag higher than indicated. A bit disheartened after this, but had a steady run through to 14 where I got within sight of Eugene in the distance again. Took the southern (off hill) route to #16 which gave me a better AP into #16, where the map was also wrong. Saw Eugene miss #18 and finally caught him at #21 where I had a good strong leg up the hill. I got pulled by Eugene and Andrew towards the north at #22 but corrected. From then on better again to the finish.

So 5.5 mins of mistakes on the course. Even with that, not good enough to beat Brad (6 mins), but I was running well, was strong on the hills and am happy with my improvement. Physically, definitely the best run of the year so far. Technically decent, but can still improve.

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