Running intervals 1:45:00 [4] 17.0 km (6:11 / km) +122m 5:58 / km
shoes: Saucony Kinvara TR
Well, if I wasn't tired before, I'm definitely tired now. Its a nice coincidence when Frank's XC is pretty close to orienteering, as was the case tonight. I could run the race, and then jog over to rundle and do an imminently dull course over there.
First was Frank's race, where Francois went out really, really fast. Faster than I knew I could manage, and I pretty much packed that in after about 800m. He just slowly pulled away, and actually for the first 2.5 I had another guy on my tail, until I hustled on the downhill to the creek bridge and then promptly gapped him. I definitely felt tired tonight, so this did not feel amazing, and Francois eventually put almost a minute over me, more if he hadn't taken the scenic route. I'm probably okay with these being over for the spring.
Then, I headed over to Rundle for Wednesday night.... "training"? Rundle is a tough map to work with, no doubt, since there's just not much there. And perhaps it was a valiant effort, I'm not sure. Either way it was a far slower effort than the XC race, 'cause I was tired! Tough to maintain the usual easy run 5:00/k pace, moreso on the jog back to the car at Goldbar.
Next week's orienteering is at Terwilligar which will be good because its more technical but OH WAIT they were going to use my corporate challenge courses but will now save those next year. So instead of helping the new-ish planner come up with some long courses, we're going to just use old courses. I wonder if this person was given the opportunity to try designing some courses with some mentorship. Gee whiz, if only someone who was too busy to plan their own meet would have offered to help people like this. Oh right, they did.