Monday Apr 28 |
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| (sick) |
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Sunday Apr 27 |
| Orienteering race 35:00 [4] | |
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| Flock Hill. Awesome place. simply designed course went basically up for 24 minutes, lost for 4 minutes, then down for 5 minutes. Was feeling crap on the hills walking and waiting for Chris to catch me. But was entertained by the awesome rocks. Missed three by 1 min. Then blew no. 8 big time when Chris caught up. Was not far off with initial attack (It was well hidden on the other side of the small rock I went too) but really relocated poorly wasting alot more time than everyone else who seemed to make the same mistake. The down hill was fun although I was dissapointed to not catch Chris up again. |
Saturday Apr 26 |
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| Classic Race at dalethorpe. Skipped it cos sick. Glad I did in hindsight. |
Friday Apr 25 |
| Orienteering race (Sprint) 15:00 [4] | |
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| SI champs sprint, Carstens Beach supreme. Was an awesome course/area. Didn't have too much top gear because of cold but didn't matter too much as it was a good technical course. Felt good at the end/afterwards which probably reflects how hard I pushed. However I didn't make so many mistakes as normal for me in a sprint (except poor route to no.1) so maybe more oxygen is my solution to my shit sprint results. Got pipped by my new arch nemisis Scott. And 3 seconds by both James and Mark. But smoked by my hairy arch nemisis the Fornicator. |
| Orienteering race 1:10:00 [4] | |
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| SI champs. Night mass start race. This is the sort of event I dream about. Fun fun fun. However I didn't handle the excitement well at all. Stuffed the first too rushing and following to lose the pack...but then didn't learn my lesson at all and continued to fumble around the two loop course with most of the other "elites". NAN (New arch nemesis) Scott toyed with me for most of the course then burnt me at the finish. I need to get back my competitive aggression...I can't believe I let a 16 year old school me. |
Thursday Apr 24 |
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| (rest day) |
| Getting sick, not too bad yet but I'm coming down with it and want to run this weekend. |
Wednesday Apr 23 |
| Running - Off road (Fartlek) 30:00 [4] | |
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| After ride. Thighs like solid brick but other muscles ok.
Whilst I felt ok training, as soon as I finished I knew the cold I've been fighting off for a few days had struck. Dissapointed as I wanted a big two weeks of training which would have been easy with SI champs this weekend and ARC next weekend. |
| Mountain Biking 1:05:00 [3] | |
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| Ride over new tracks with Marquita and Rob. Went up phils track at the start so thighs were screaming from the start. |
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| C • Biked it? 1 |
Monday Apr 21 |
| Running - Off road (am) 20:00 [3] | |
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| Running - Off road 45:00 [3] | |
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Sunday Apr 20 |
| Orienteering 1:24:00 [5] | |
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| Auckland Long champs. Waiuku South.
Had a good run, a woopsie on the first than a minute later on when lost concentration. Other than that I was hammering along battling with young Scott. Bloody hell was he impressive. Spent everything I had trying to stay with him, then when he swerved off I tried to run off, only to lose a minute and he took off. Really put the hammer down catch up again. Both of us struggled around ok from there. Was tired but pretty pleased with that, thinking we had done enough for a win or second behind Carsten. Was amazed (especially after yesterdays slack effort) to see so many others running well also. Mark smashing it out in 78.
Was pleased with my fitness improvements from Nationals, but pretty keen to step it up again after getting a pasteing from so many. |
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| C • Champion 1 |
| Wind Trainer 30:00 [3] | |
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| Get rid of some of the lactic acid and Hieneken. |
Saturday Apr 19 |
| Orienteering race 42:00 [5] | |
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| Well what can I say. Was okay. Just made three seperate parallel errors on the long leg, the most significant one ending me up in the middle of a dark green patch. Lost 8 min on that leg. Felt ok just lacked that spring and strength up hill. Feeling very good afterwards... resisted the urge to either do more training or get drunk.
Simon J took it out in style. Nice one laddie. |
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| C • Drunk 1 |
Friday Apr 18 |
| Running - Road 25:00 [4] | |
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| Flat road run with some stride outs. Felt real good. Looking forward to tommorow. |
Thursday Apr 17 |
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| (rest day) |
| Was gonna go training but had piked on the long run in town. then got caught up at work till late. Might be a good thing as I feel alot fresher now (friday) and can give auckland champs a descent nudge. |
Wednesday Apr 16 |
| Wind Trainer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| It was raining and dark. |
Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Running - Road hills 17:00 [5] | |
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| Mt Eden the long way. 5.48, 5.42, 5.36.
Quite reliefing to not get my arse kicked like usual and to get faster. Pretty knackered still. Enjoying my easy week.
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| Running - Road warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
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| Up, down and all around. |
Monday Apr 14 |
| Running - Road 30:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Apr 13 |
| Mountain Biking 1:03:00 [3] | |
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| Rode to the OY from home. Struggled to keep up with Marquita, was a bit knackered from yesterday. |
| Orienteering race 1:24:00 [3] | |
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| Was very tired starting off and just about dead by twenty minutes. Fought so hard to not DNF and keep jogging (mostly). Made some stupid mistakes because of tiredness, like not bothering to look at the map and thinking I could just go on memory, but wasn't even in the right area. Not a very positive training day really but still time under the belt.
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Saturday Apr 12 |
| Running - Off road hills 23:00 [4] | |
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| Three Hill reps, Gumboot gate hil. 7.26, 7.21, 7.29.
Bloody good.
Bit of a head cold coming. |
| Running - Off road 50:00 [3] | |
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| I was running. |
Friday Apr 11 |
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| (rest day) |
| Still pretty grumpy. |
Thursday Apr 10 |
| Running - Off road 1:45:00 [2] | |
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| Long run Okura Bush walkway with Mark, Tim and Elmo with no light. I was feeling very flat.
Then found out I only got the long for Czech. Dissapointed. |
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| C • WOC 12 |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| Mountain Biking (Night) 1:25:00 [2] | |
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| Woodhill with Greg. |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Running - Off road (Morning) 30:00 [2] | |
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| Mid morning Yog. |
| Running - Off road intervals 8:00 [5] | |
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| eight 50 second intervals from road up to domain steps. Slowed steadily to 57. |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
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| Warming up/down and all around intervals. |
Monday Apr 7 |
| Running - Off road 45:00 [3] | |
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| Day light savings ended so I thought I'd celebrate by running in the dark with a headlamp. Buet night. Went up to turn back on hedleys fence. Can't beleive I'm feeling so good considering I felt so crap on friday and saturday and then busted my arse totally on the ride yesterday. Just a bit tired up the steep hills but enjoying running. |
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| C • hard yards eh ! funny you g... 2 |
Sunday Apr 6 |
| Orienteering race 1:00:00 [4] | |
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| Score event at home. Was going ok then diverted to turn the electric fence off that was supposed to be off. Then took a while to get my mojo back before racing at the end. Chose a few bad routes and was running out of time to get home....thankfully I ran past the barn so I jumped on the motorbike and raced accross a few paddocks only to miss by 9 secs. Not sure if I should include the hour of motorbike riding picking up controls as training since I've used it in a race and I need more training.
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| MTBO race 53:00 [5] | |
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| Mtbo race, slater road. beat marquita and Mark L. |
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| C • Top Effort 1 |
| Mountain Biking warm up/down 10:00 [3] | |
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Saturday Apr 5 |
| Running - Off road 1:30:00 [2] | |
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| Very Very Very, tired and unfit. struggled the whole way. Feels good to train hard again even though im so pathetic. |
Friday Apr 4 |
| Running - Off road 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Run from home. Nice to be running out the back again its been awhile. Felt knackered so eased into it and came right after 35 min, then was stuffed again for the last 5. |
Thursday Apr 3 |
| Mountain Biking long 1:55:00 [2] | |
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| Good ride with Greg at the bike park. Haven't been for about 2 months. And before that I don't know when. So had to pace myself, and was understandably weak. But hey it was fun. |
Wednesday Apr 2 |
| Orienteering race 37:00 [4] | |
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| summer series, the domain. Tried hard. good course. Was a disorganised guy today, should have made time to do more running. |
Tuesday Apr 1 |
| Running - Off road (Morning) 28:00 [3] | |
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| Amazing. I feel good again, Niggles have gone, even hip felt good. Even woke up early. |
| Running - Off road 14:00 [5] | |
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| 6 Times Bowling club hill at the domain. I was very very slow. I was taking about 2:11 at the start and dropped down to 2:27 at the end. I think James was doing under 1.50. |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
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