Training Log Archive: kate

warm up with amber...went through reserve etc...think my climb on my garmin is so wrong..its giving me really big numbers??? help?

C • Climb 2

Spanst with Amber in the reserve...we did the whole session with 3 sprints up hill at the end...was tough

warm down in the reserve and on the roads back to ambers

Up the Peak on the the tracks a bit and home today with Amber after work...I was a slow mofo! :P Feeling rather tired...guess wasn't used to standing on my feet all day at work again...Feel as though I have lost my mojo to run up hills strongly :S oh well...itll get there I hope

cruise with Amber after her work

C • fiji? 2

Core strength of my big strength program

P.S Ran with my NEW Garmin :D :D

Cruise with Amber around the streets of Havelock in the dark after her work...had such a weird stomach...so did Amber...Top of my foot still a bit sore from the wknd :S Arch felt ok though

Rest day today :) Amber and I were tired, so decided this would be good for us :)

couldnt do the arvo session as had to come back to leave for Hawkes Bay...such a long drive!

10min warm and 10min warm down
Bit tired and slow from whole weekend and the surprise 21st everyone threw me the night before :D was so cool!

O training with National squad+others...must say, it is blimmin wicked we have a pair of coaches like Jean and Al to spend time with us and helping us actually become awesome at orienteering :P
we went in pairs for this training...I went with Amber...we were given a map and it had the start triangle(where we all were) and one control on it...we were told to navigate there and then come back...not too speedy, just at our pace...we could come back a different way if we wanted too...
After that, we were then told the point of the exercise :P we had to get our maps take off us straight away, then I had to draw for amber what I remember/what would help her navigate to that control...so all she had was my hand drawn map :P Was pretty funny...wernt allowed words etc...so it was simply just a simplification exercise and getting us to think over how we orienteer naturally and what we see and think...we did this a few times...although one of ambers maps, I had no perception of how far I had to go, and ran way too long and had no idea what the map was telling me :P it was a pretty good interpretation, although I got tripped up my having no scale :P
fun times!

10min warm up before the relay...
15min warm down with Immy and Ang after the relay

Nationals Relay
I was in the 2nd team with Hamish G on first leg and Devon B on 2nd leg... Hamish had an awesome run, and actually wasn't too far behind Duncan and with some of the other guys like Martin peat etc :P
then Devon had an ok run...but we were already quite a bit behind from the leading teams at this stage...
I had an average run...felt i could have run a lot quicker...wish I had someone to push me along :P
Lost about a minute or so to #9...really screwed it up...didnt judge how far I had come correctly, and also was off my compass a bit :/ lost a little bit on 10...
then...picked up 173 instead of 172 in the map change...fml!! I was certain I had got 172...maybe it looked like a 2 to me when I was tired? grr...stupid mistake...should have double checked...
so anyway there was only one split difference on the 2nd loop and it was #13..they were so close to each other too...I actually ran past my actual control.. :S stuffed up 14 a bit...wrong exit direction and ended up on other side of the hill...and exit direction was wrong for 15 too...came out at track way down, then had to run quite a way...the rest were all good.
So angry that i did that...sad that I missed punch for our team too :/ I managed to put the map back on the fence when I finished so that team could get the right one, as they hadnt gone through the map change yet...pheww...