Training Log Archive: david

Event: Victorian Long Champs (SILVA NOL)
 

Was expecting big things after running strongly yesterday. Unfortunately yesterdays strength was lost somewhere in between finishing yesterday and starting today.

Lots of stupid route choice, which probably explains how quite a few people got past me without me seeing them. Legs felt quite good the whole way, with only a few weak spots, it is just a shame that I couldn't get them to move any faster.

Event: Australian Middle Champs (SILVA NOL)
 

First mistake today was expecting to be outwitted by Warren, and he did not dissapoint. Losts of lost time on lots of controls, which was a shame as I was generally running pretty well. Managed to loose time on some of the major route choice legs as well

Took quite a lot of effort to get warm

Short run after work

Bit of a strange run today. Went out to the Ballarat mine and ran around some of the tracks near there. A little bit of interesting terrain around, shame it is all covered in blackberries and gorse. Windy, cold and wet out, but only got rained on once.

Little better today. Hopefully I will be able to muster some more enthusiasm for the weekend.

Work took up most of my day, and I could not be stuffed doing anything in the afternoon. Had to force myself to go for a run, and as a result, didn't enjoy it that much. Just missed getting caught in a downpour.

Short run after work.

3 hour Maxi at Creswick Diggings. Nice day to be out in the forest for a long run. Navigation was even easier than last year, and the organisers were probably lucky not to lose a number of controls given some of the people that frequent the forest.

Plan was to get to the first control in front of the pack, and to stay there fore the race. Made a few little errors, and was a little cautious on some of the controls where the descriptions didn't specify what side of a feature the control was on, or if the control was at the top or bottom. Struggled a lot in the 3rd half hour, but managed to pick up the pace again towards the end.

All in all, a nice day out. Will probably be a bit sore tomorrow.

C • K's 3

Fantastic evening for it. Even stayed light for the whole run for a change.

Really could not be stuffed tonight. Cold and damp.

Easy run around Spring Gully Res after a pretty big day yesterday. The bush is pretty spectacular around Bendigo at the moment...

Reasonable run for the most part. Pretty steep and slippery out there, but a very nice area. Redeemed myself somewhat for my disaster here last year, but thought it was going to happen again when I climbed up much too high on the straighfoward number 2 and lost about 6-7 minutes on a relatively easy let. Got my head together after that and finished off reasonably well, but it was a slog up the hills.

Always try to run up Mt Alexander at least once a year, and seeing as though I have only done it on the bike this year, today seemed like the best oppertunity I would get. Felt like a bit of a cop out starting at the intersection rather than further down, but I figured that I had already run a course, and that was good enough.

Thought the weather may turn to shit at about 4pm today, but it was still pretty nice when I left work. Don't know what is going on, 2 half decent runs in a row.

C • weather 2

Lovely evening for a run. Finished work early enough so that most of it was in the light as well. Almost felt warm out there running.