Training Log Archive: Garry

Event: Western Cape Championships - Long
 

Bad start to 1, getting distracted by others & worse to 2 stopping early at the wrong re-entrant. Went round to 3 and straight to 4. Definitely quicker to go straight even though it was hard work. Pretty decent from 3 on to control 11 to which I stopped early. Had managed to catch Colin, but drinks at the two water points and then tired mistakes at 15 and 17 cost me. Felt the lack on long runs in the legs. Pretty happy with my run with exception of 1 & 2. Mistakes later were more due to tiredness.

C • Long Runs 4

Course 2 - Splits

Event: SA Sprint Championships
 

Event: Western Cape Championships - Middle
 

Very happy with my race. Did well on legs 8 & 13 which both involved the tricky climb above the car park. My route out of 8 became my route into 13, which let me decide early. A bit of a lack of pace on the long leg to 5! And then obviously got lazy on the last 5-6 controls where Mike did really well & I lost contact with him. Only major mistake of 10sec was to 4 where I made a parallel error. The one on AP to 16 was for me to check the map that I could get through. Pretty chuffed to beat the Gauteng guys who've been beating me in the GOC events.

One of my best-ever runs. Good focus the whole way through. Good flow. Took a conservative route into 1, but splits show this was a good move. Did quite a lot of rough compass and pacing work and hit most things spot on. Felt slow to 13 going over the top, but splits show it was better than others. Slightly off on 15, but used form line as effective catch feature.

C • Splits 2

Course 1 - Splits

Course 2 - Splits

Easy run at work. Back to fitness levels prior to getting sick - based on time taken round this route. Happy days with WCOC this weekend.

Stretches after the run at work.