Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Karori Sprint Intervals, round 1. I may have missed better route choices on one or two legs but the only real technical issue was not enough planning ahead and too much standing still at controls in the latter third of the course (after quickly warming into good flow in this respect early in the course). Felt like I was going a bit faster than the k rate indicates - I'd like to put that down solely to the amount of zig-zagging away from the red line...

Round 2. Legs a bit heavy even though I'd tried to jog around as much as possible between intervals. Definitely missed a better route choice to 1 - sucked into starting the same way as I'd started the first loop when staying out of the buildings would have been much smoother, but executed it well anyway. Stopped wrong side of small building for 12. Had an unneccesary long pause at loop 1's finish control, more a process error than navigation. Also particularly in the first part of the course everything was coming up too quickly, despite the fact I was probably moving slower, was never really reading ahead and still have very little idea what was happening around 6 & 7, apart from that I found both controls!

Round 3. A fine display of headless chookery. With only a handful of new controls, probably guilty of too much 'I know where that is' and not enough navigation, plus after the first control there was no opportunity for a mental breather until leaving the 8th, but whatever the cause basically if there was a mistake available I happily volunteered to make it. I suspect the evil course setter knew exactly what she was doing putting this loop last.

Thanks Lizzie, both for your part in making this happen and also putting my setting-from-a-distance issues in perspective!

A beautiful day to wander around looking at rocks and things and deciding exactly where the landscape would be aesthetically improved by adding a small orange and white flag. Out there 6 hours but enough time spent standing still and thinking (or eating) to reduce that a bit...

C • where? 4

Brooklyn - a typical central Wellington mix of long, sometimes round-about road and track runs and a bit of bushbashing (distance travelled will be much more than red-line distance today!). Legs not quite as shocked as they were at the gardens the other day but still a lot more walking than there should have been. Better orienteering habits too, probably helped by the predominantly long, easily simplified legs in the early part of the course and by the time I hit the last little intensive section in the school, I was way too stuffed to outrun my map-reading... Over-ran #1 through not having my head into the scale once I needed to get off the main paths, #4 apparently the relatively direct contour-through-light-green was not the best option here as Simon Rea re-caught me here by going about 3 times the distance! And 6 again could have saved time on the final approach by going around rather than through the rough stuff.