Sunday Mar 23 |
 | Orienteering race 1:59:09 [4]12.2 km (9:46 / km) +565m 7:56 / km | |
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| am: Easter Day 3. High Plains North. Bit of a marathon effort today. Felt slow and old. Got passed by Lorenzo, then a stinger, and then finally by Blair. Each time I was overtaken I thought " ... he's not going too fast. I'll just see how long I can stay with him without bursting a boiler". Turned out to be not too long in each case, although it took Blair 4 controls to get clear. After he got away it was survival mode until the end. I was damn sore and tired by the end. Started thinking seriously about retirement in the latter stages of the course.
The granny glasses were servicable. |
Saturday Mar 22 |
| Orienteering race 50:53 [5]4.5 km (11:18 / km) +160m 9:36 / km | |
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| am: Easter day 2. Hillview. What a disaster! Couldn't read the map that well on the run. And couldn't make myself slow down enough to be able to read it properly either. As a result made two dumb mistakes. The second one was a ripper. Ran off the map but wasn't aware that I had ... I was stoked
I've been wearing contact lenses for 6 months now and they're fine for the usual day to day stuff, but they just don't cut the mustard for orienteering in a detailed, rocky area. It just takes too long to change focus when I want to look at the map. in a rough area you don't have the luxury of gazing at the map for too long, and usually I ended up having to look at where I was putting my feet before I could really read much of the map. Back to granny glasses tomorrow!
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| The nocturnal activities of some of the Dubbo locals on Sat night reminded of my high school days when 'dubbo' was a term used to refer to a dimwitted person :-) |
Friday Mar 21 |
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| Event: Australian Easter Three Days and Prologue
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| Orienteering race 18:05 [5]3.4 km (5:19 / km) | |
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| md: Usual crap run in a sprint event. Everything went Ok apart from a 180 out of one control. Didn't go far before I realised but it probably cost 45sec. I wasn't expecting too much from today's race, I just didn't want to lose any time through dumb mistakes. Oh well ... the real orienteering starts tomorrow. I'll be able to go a bit slower and hopefully have just a little more time to actually look at the map. |
Thursday Mar 20 |
| Running 31:11 [3]6 km (5:12 / km) | |
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| pm: Run along the river in Dubbo. Something to get the circulation going and loosen up the legs. Not sure how I'll go tomorrow. It was uncomfortably warm in Dubbo and I'm not used to the heat any more. |
Wednesday Mar 19 |
| Running 30:13 [3]6.5 km (4:39 / km) | |
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| am: Short run in Kings Pk before flying to Sydney for Easter. |
Tuesday Mar 18 |
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| Did absolutely nothing today. Was going to be a non-running day but I originally planned to go to the gym in the evening. Was so busy getting ready to fly to Sydney that I ended up missing out on the gym. |
Monday Mar 17 |
| Running 32:28 [3]6.7 km (4:51 / km) | |
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| am: Little bit of jogging in Kings Pk. Now have a sore heel (right) to add to the teeny weeny collection of aches and pains. |
| Core stability 46:00 [1] | |
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| pm: Core and postural |