Training Log Archive: heyUIn the 7 days ending Oct 7, 2007:
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Sunday Oct 7, 2007 #
Note
Did absolutely nothing today - apart from sitting in a flying aluminium can
Saturday Oct 6, 2007 #
Orienteering race 1:48:01 [4] 12.9 km (8:22 / km) +525m 6:57 / km
spiked:26/31c
am: Oceania Long distance championships, Boboyan Divide.
Managed to get through this race reasonably well. I suspected it would be hard going if the course setter thought that 12.9k would be long enough for a 90min winning time, and I wasn't disappointed. Was pleased that I was able to keep going fairly well. Endurance is not a problem now - I'll have work harder on speed and strength.
Started cautiously and was a bit slow across the ground, especially around 2 and 3, where it seemed like half the forest was now lying on the ground and you couldn't go more than a few steps without hurdling or dodging fallen timber. Hit everything OK until 17 (apart from drifting off line on 5 and hesitating on a few controls). Misread the map on 17 and was too high on the slope. Corrected Ok so it probably only cost 1 min. Controls 18 to 29 went OK apart from a few stutters. Was feeling a bit weary though (particularly when running through the tussock grass in some of the open valleys). Managed to bumble on the last 2 controls (20-30 sec on each), but still finished closer to the winner than I have in a major race for several years. Finished 17th?, just in front of Warren :-)
Will start to work on strength over the next few months.
A curse on this blasted netkiosk. grrr... I'm sure that it's cleverly designed to do nothing in the last minute, apart from putting up warning messages about how your time is running out, so that you're forced to pay for more time just to finish the last little bit that you should have been able to easily complete if you weren't getting rid of annoying pop-ups (I'm only typing this because I had to put in another coin and now have time to kill).
Managed to get through this race reasonably well. I suspected it would be hard going if the course setter thought that 12.9k would be long enough for a 90min winning time, and I wasn't disappointed. Was pleased that I was able to keep going fairly well. Endurance is not a problem now - I'll have work harder on speed and strength.
Started cautiously and was a bit slow across the ground, especially around 2 and 3, where it seemed like half the forest was now lying on the ground and you couldn't go more than a few steps without hurdling or dodging fallen timber. Hit everything OK until 17 (apart from drifting off line on 5 and hesitating on a few controls). Misread the map on 17 and was too high on the slope. Corrected Ok so it probably only cost 1 min. Controls 18 to 29 went OK apart from a few stutters. Was feeling a bit weary though (particularly when running through the tussock grass in some of the open valleys). Managed to bumble on the last 2 controls (20-30 sec on each), but still finished closer to the winner than I have in a major race for several years. Finished 17th?, just in front of Warren :-)
Will start to work on strength over the next few months.
A curse on this blasted netkiosk. grrr... I'm sure that it's cleverly designed to do nothing in the last minute, apart from putting up warning messages about how your time is running out, so that you're forced to pay for more time just to finish the last little bit that you should have been able to easily complete if you weren't getting rid of annoying pop-ups (I'm only typing this because I had to put in another coin and now have time to kill).
Friday Oct 5, 2007 #
Orienteering race 16:30 [4] 2.6 km (6:21 / km)
pm: Oceania Sprint Championships.
Ran this as a solid training run. Couldn't really race it because I'm as blind as a bat and everything just comes up too quickly @ 1:3000. Wazza caught 2 mins on me and helped me through the last few controls :-)
Ran this as a solid training run. Couldn't really race it because I'm as blind as a bat and everything just comes up too quickly @ 1:3000. Wazza caught 2 mins on me and helped me through the last few controls :-)
Wednesday Oct 3, 2007 #
Running 46:09 [3] 9.5 km (4:51 / km)
pm: Newcastle. Hilly run through the old Glendale map. About 7 or 8 decent hills in this one. Very warm (max 35) so was hard work.
Tuesday Oct 2, 2007 #
Running 30:22 [3] 6.0 km (5:04 / km)
pm: Newcastle. Slowish run through the bush at Glendale. Ran part of my old weekend morning run course. Has a few hills!
Monday Oct 1, 2007 #
Orienteering race 41:29 [4] 4.7 km (8:50 / km) +230m 7:05 / km
spiked:16/22c
am: Oceania champs. Middle distance. Honeysuckle Creek South
Annoyed with myself in this race. Had a lot of trouble settling down in the early stages of the race. Stumbled on 1 and got 2-6 OK but wasn't really orienteering very smoothly at all. Lost concentration on the way to 7 and had a brain fade and started navigating to 8, which was about 150m farther on. Started to head off to 9, but fortunately realised that something wasn't right and stopped and screwed my head on again. Went back to 7, redid 8 and was then ready to start orienteering again. Very slow on 9 but ran much better for the rest of the course. Didn't wait around for the results :-)
I probably need to have about 5 or 6 races on technical areas to get back into practice. Local events just aren't challenging enough (except for the middle distance champs which was really good).
Annoyed with myself in this race. Had a lot of trouble settling down in the early stages of the race. Stumbled on 1 and got 2-6 OK but wasn't really orienteering very smoothly at all. Lost concentration on the way to 7 and had a brain fade and started navigating to 8, which was about 150m farther on. Started to head off to 9, but fortunately realised that something wasn't right and stopped and screwed my head on again. Went back to 7, redid 8 and was then ready to start orienteering again. Very slow on 9 but ran much better for the rest of the course. Didn't wait around for the results :-)
I probably need to have about 5 or 6 races on technical areas to get back into practice. Local events just aren't challenging enough (except for the middle distance champs which was really good).