Training Log Archive: jools

Relay event. I enjoyed this map and was amazed to be running over old, probably fossillised, oyster shells. The terrain was steep and rough, with many steep gullies. Made a couple of errors, and lost probably 8 - 10 mins of time, but for me this is not bad. Had a great team - thanks Margi and Prue!

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C • VIc champs 16

This event for me was another championship disaster. I was entered in the W35A class and set out on the 7.5 km course. Ran the first half of it with out much difficulty, with a number of paddock legs, finding controls in the rocky features. I totally lost contact with the map on a rocky slope, where I was missreading parallel rocky slope features. I spent over 40 mins trying to understand the map and read the features and couldn't work out why it made no sense. It wasn't until I'd given up and was walking back to the assembly area that I realised I was on the wrong slope. I put this down to being tired and having a cold. This didn't help my thinking at all. I get very disappointed that something like this happens at most national championship events. I would love to have a clean run at a long national championship event....

Australian sprint championships. This was held in another school campus, and I'm not good at sprinting all the way around these courses. I tend to jog around, keeping track of the map and clue numbers, and then put in a sprint at the end, in the finish chute, which is not the way it should be done. I felt a bit of a fraud collecting the 3rd place in the W35 class after this effort.