Training Log Archive: CathW

Prolonged middle.
Meadows surrounded by mountains and smelling amazing as you ran (shuffled) through the grass. Also lots of scrub and rocks and a fair bit of grotty woodland, too.
Messed up no 12 - looked like the depression was alongside the gully rather than bang in the middle of it hidden in trees and rocks.
Had to make the mistake, otherwise I'd have been quicker round the prolonged middle than I was round the middle...



Fab week :)

Wasn't looking forward to this today after being so slow yesterday - 2km further was going to be a long one. Pleasantly surprised, still a long time, but not as long as I feared, and it was dry!
No mistakes, just incredibly slow through the terrain.

Wet, karst, one mistake on no 8 where I thought I was one depression over from where I was, otherwise clean, just mincing in the terrain and legs feeling tired. Should have been 2 or 3 places higher - very relieved to see how many others were out for a long time on a "middle" race, better placed than yesterday.

Event: Easter4
 

Koper sprint.
Mistakes on 7 and 13, which were frustrating.
As the old lady of W35 I was pleased not to be last!!
Not as complicated or narrow as Cres but a couple of good legs and a fun course.
Bring on the karst tomorrow :)

Back into Slovenia for today - compass work in relatively featureless scrubland with relatively limited visibility.
Hol found compasses really don't like working accurately with a mahoosive bubble, so left me at no 5 to complete the course.
Major oops on no 9 - parallel error on the walled enclosures (assumed I had drifted right - I had on all the others) and wasn't really concentrating. Kept relocating off the wall corner by the path or from the walled enclosure to the south of the wall corner by the path. Eventually worked out what was going on!!
24 hours recovery time - race 1 tomorrow evening is the Koper old town sprint :)

A bit of corridor/contour only/windows training for me while Hol did the course on a complete map. We met up at each control for a catch up. Much better all around :)

The rest of my middle race from last year - except that I did 12-13-14-15 in a squiffly way. 3 minutes faster than that part of the course last year, and I was lots fitter then... shows how hot it was!