Sunday Mar 16 |
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| Event: St Johns, Gauteng Short Course 5
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 | Orienteering race (Short course) 21:34 [5]*** 2.7 km (7:59 / km) +40m 7:26 / km | |
| 19c shoes: New Balance 477 |
| 5th Short course at St Johns. It was a really cold and wet day. Cindy was supposed to start 2mins before me and Tania 2mins after but there was a bit of confusion so we went of at 1min intervals. Cindy and I messed up no.4 so Tania caught us. I went pretty smoothly after that. Tania was out of sight by no.13. I took a different route choice to Cindy to no.13 but it didn't make much difference. We kept on passing each other but finished together. Tania won in 19mins, Michele 2nd and Jess L third. I enjoyed the map and course. Running in the rain was surprisingly fun. |
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Women - Splits |
Friday Mar 14 |
| Running (Sasol wichwood) 21:47 [3]3.26 km (6:41 / km) +40m 6:18 / km | |
| shoes: Adidas Response |
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Thursday Mar 13 |
| Running (xc prac) 15:40 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance 477 |
| Ran around sports grounds. Our coach is leaving at the end of the term so he's pretty much lost interest. |
Wednesday Mar 12 |
| Running (XC prac) 23:08 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance 477 |
| Ran on sports grounds.I took it easy because I didn't feel so good yesterday. I hope I'm not getting Alex's stomach bug |
Monday Mar 10 |
| Orienteering race (Schools league- delta) 22:35 [5]*** 2.6 km (8:41 / km) | |
| ahr:186 max:199 11c shoes: New Balance 477 |
| Schools league final. I had a pretty bad run. I just wasn't feeling it and my concentration was bad. I would like to blame the arm chair planning, the map which I don't think was entirely updated and the control placing which Henrik corrected slightly on the way round his course (not that I think I had any of those controls) but no one else seemed to complain.
I didn't feel like I was going very fast but my average heart rate was pretty high. I probably lost a few second at no. 4. I was confused at no. 5 coz the paths didn't match up but I shouldn't have worried about that. I didn't pace myself well so I had to walk up the hill to no.6. No.8 was much further down than I thought and the dry ditches weren't so dry. After struggling through the vegetation and long grass from 7 to 9 my legs were itchy and scratched and I was irritated. I definitely should have worn my gaiters. I wasn't concentrating to no.10.
All in all I wasn't very pleased. The navigation was pretty straight forward so I'm cross that I messed up so much. I grumbled a lot afterwards but looking at the map now I can't see much to complain about.
Stephanie won in 19mins, Zoe 2nd, Jess L 3rd. I'm not sure if Jess H beat me so I either came 4th or 5th. |