Training Log Archive: taramelhuish

day 5 - good run again today, I knew by now that the green was easy enough to get through so going straight was almost always the best route, though I did go around the lantana filled creek. Nicola caught me pretty early on which kept me pushing to try to stay ahead/ keep up which was really good because I was orienteering a lot faster than on my own. Although in the green-hashed-open section with many twisty paths I had no idea where I was so followed Nicola way left to near #16 instead of #12 (obviously wasn't looking at my compass either), and after correcting that felt like a bit of a snail for the next couple of controls because I lost sight of her, finished well again after that though which was good :)

day 4 - much nicer open forest which was nice and easier running. again slightly wobbly on the first couple of controls and throughout the whole course I had a tendency to check every other control that wasn't mine in big creeks and things which was pretty stupid :/ but didn't really make any other mistakes. caught Toni around #11 which increased my pace a lot from there because she was trying to keep up, and I was trying to not let her, so in general a pretty good run

day 3 - the greenest map of the week, plus was very hot/humid so by the end I was absolutely sick of bashing and taking whatever tracks I could. Was a little bit sloppy on the first couple of controls but then got into it more, before slowing back down and getting pushed around a lot once into all the green stuff where a lost little bits of time all over the place. Overall though not shocking and made it to the end which felt like an achievement itself

xmas 5 days, day 2 - not a particularly good map, just a lot of tracks and green but did mostly alright apart from running straight past #9

xmas 5 days sprint, pretty good run on a fairly fast/open campus map, just a couple of hesitations here and there but nothing major

Long run w Stephen in the Lane Cove national park, was really nice after the 3k trek to get there...went around the river on the walking trails so lots of rocks to hop over, as well as some dodgy signposting meaning that we had a very slow km rate (as well as from running slow). Was a bit humid but early enough that it was still nice :)