Training Log Archive: mary

MOC camp sprint quali for sprint final and for knockout - wanted to do ok so I could have a good crack at the knockout so was pretty focused but felt a bit stomach ill starting (either from milk, water or windy roads, or all)
Just tried to run sensibly, within the speed I can navigate and planning ahead well and it paid off with a good result of 6th.
Probably could have saved about 30-45s on hesitations/route choices/one 15s error on no. 2 where I got spat out of an alleyway to below not above a staircase, so pretty good to feel like it was good and good result but still room for improvement.

Sprint final - really really hard technical area, hardest sprint I’ve ever done and totally minced it! It’s been a big week and I was feeling pretty tired by this point!
Spiked no2 but had no idea where I was and was convinced it wasn’t my controls so just hung around it not punching getting confused till the fast Russian 1min girl came into it. And then it all kept going downhill from there - I just kept losing contact and doing a similar thing on lots of controls, then on the way to no15 a bunch of Italian guys started really aggressively yelling ‘where are you from’ at me and Pete and I just lost concentration and carried onto 16 without going to 15 so MP in the end which is a bit like whatever cos I would have been at the bottom of the results anyway! Shame I couldn’t keep it together but splits analysis shows there were some really good legs... so that and watching Pete’s GoPro of my race will give me something to work from... and I am pretty grateful I just got to run in such a fucking crazy hard area :D

All these distances and climbs from these sprints are definitely not accurate - strava and polar are showing very diff things but there is no way to keep GPS in these crazy hillside Italian towns