Training Archive: GeorgeIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-08:
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Sunday Jun 8 | ||
| Orienteering race (QBlll - snows hill) 49:18 [4] 5.5 km (8:58 / km) +140m 7:57 / km | |
| yayayayay! no mistakes! (well close enough) First good run for a while so I'm really glad, especially as it was a hard map that lots of people seemed to be making mistakes on. Spur gully with lots of termite mounds - which were really very helpful! All long legs so I just went really carefully and I think I crosschecked and thumbed my map really well. At one point I was a little bit unsure of exactly where I was but I thought I was in the right spot and worked it out after running a bit further so that was all good. Didn't run all that fast as I needed to be really careful, and I was aiming for a steady, clean run. So yeah, I achieved my goal!
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| C • ORIENTEERING IS BECOMING TOTALLY HIP 3 | ||
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| Warmed up running on the way to the start, but then it turned out it was quite a bit earlier than I thought so I waited for a bit (stretching) before doing some more. Tried to be really focussed, which seemed to work I guess...
Then a short warm down afterwards. | ||
Saturday Jun 7 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| Veeery short warm up before - didn't realise it was so late so got to the start and realised I couldn't keep warming up.
Cool down afterwards. I think this was really just a chance for me to try and get in the right frame of mind mentally as much as anything else, coz I was pretty disappointed about my run. | ||
| C • Warm up 5 | ||
| Orienteering race (QBlll) 25:00 [5] 3.1 km (8:04 / km) | |
| Most of it was ok but I made one really really annoying mistake at number 4 :( as well as a few other smallish things. I decided to go to the track and then follow it until another track joined it when I would take a bearing back into the bush. Soo I figure I couldn't get lost on the track, just run as fast as possible until the intersection then slow down. Except that I completely missed the intersection, I guess the track was fading away a bit, and went about twice as far as I should have, thought I saw the track, went into the bush, saw a dam coming up, saw a track on my left and realised I had gone wayyy too far! so then I ran straight back along the track and soon found it. GRR
I was really unhappy about making such a stupid mistake mainly because I've being doing this kind of thing at every single major event recently, and no matter what I do I can't seem to avoid it. I have no idea what to do about it other than keep on trying... | ||
Friday Jun 6 | ||
| Running 35:00 [3] | |
| Er.. well... just a normal run I guess. Didn't want to do anything too difficult before this weekends events.
Butttt more excitingly I have a swollen up finger!!! Coz in netball in PE today this guy wacked the ball into it when I was trying to throw it. And now it's really fat and sore. Luckily you don't run with your fingers! | ||
Thursday Jun 5 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| once again not home til 9pm ish tonight. stupid college information nights every night for a week! well i haven't gone to all of them so not every night but still. they should have an assessment free week this week coz of all the info nights taking up all our time.
i'm getting a cold. and grr. no training =( | ||
Wednesday Jun 4 | ||
| Event: TRAAIINNNNNIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG | ||
| Running 10:00 [3] 1.2 km (8:20 / km) | |
| Sort of a cool-down thing after O-intervals mainly just coz nomi and i wanted to keep running a little bit more. | ||
| Orienteering intervals (Radford) 35:00 [3] *** 3.15 km (11:07 / km) | |
| 4 intervals - 650m, 750m, 850m, 900m, plus waiting in between each.
well i wouldn't really say this was advanced O, especially the bits in the bush which were really easy, but sprinting (well not exactly but whatever) through the buildings while reading was pretty hard - well at least it would have been if there hadn't been lots of people around going to the same control ... it was hard to make myself stay in contact the whole time because of this so I made sure I tried to draw in my route and thought about how I would have done it if I'd been going more slowly and carefully. | ||
Tuesday Jun 3 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| well how was i meant to train when I had to do piano practice before I left for school and then left at 8:00am and didn't get home 'til 9:00pm??? it would have been pretty ridiculous. not to mention dangerous running around in the dark by myself. (well it's a good excuse... :P) | ||
| C • TRAIN 3 | ||
Monday Jun 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| Running race (ACT X-country) 16:41 [5] 4 km (4:10 / km) vdot: 45.7 | |
| Went way better than I expected! Pushed much harder than at northside and I assume my time was quite a bit better too but I don't actually know what it was - just guessed. I kept overtaking people and then right near the end I was quite a few metres behind the girl in front of me and I decided to try and beat her, and then we practically tied it was so close but they gave 6th to her, so I came 7th. I'm pretty sure that means I won't get to go to nationals but someone might drop out I guess...
I'm really happy with my run - it shows that I could actually be an okay runner if I always trained! Then again I'm really really ANNOYED to the extreme coz if I'd realised I would get to go to nationals if I beat that girl I'm sure I would have started sprinting sooner and could have - butttt a friend had told me that we (the under 16's) were up against not only the 17's, who were running with us, but the 18's too, who weren't running with us, so I figured I had no chance of making it. grrr... | ||
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