Training Log Archive: mary

One of those could have been runs by me. Actually felt a little burst of energy today, map looked real fun and atmosphere from the final was great!
3poor route choices that cost time, over 30s each on two of them! And kinda still shuffling despite feeling less lethargic!
Really enjoyed it though! Had a great day, and a couple of the Czech organisers wanted to buy Brodes and I a beer after to say sorry for the issues in the sprint relay, which was just great to get to chat with them about the formats etc and think we will go stay with Jana tomorrow and check out another map on tues... less hills I hope! So something pretty nice has come out of that shitty day!
Managed to take a very small roll on my bad ankle walking down from a little castle this afternoon, but it’s been aching up the peroneal all evening... hopefully eases of tomorrow.

Warm up, up to the castle - very cool

Not a fab race again from me - physically spent, im feeling overworked exhausted (even though it was a relatively easy week at work - think it’s just the cold) and had nothing in the body to give! Strava says I had 15mins non moving time - there ya go! I know I can run so much better than this, but I also don’t feel like I deserve to be here this weekend when I’m just trying to hang in there.
Technically not bad - only one bad control which I actually spiked, but didn’t see so then just ran around the rocks like why is it not where it should be!?!? Disadvantage to be out alone because if you weren’t dead sure on the rock pillar/crag you were at you couldn’t see past it to work out where! Restrospectively all the fast people took the wide as route choices where I didn’t, but I was so slow, yeah it would have saved time but not made it a great run anyway!

Everyone was so pumped up about the area it was very very cool in the rocks and fun starting in the castle - but god so hard!

Real easy around middle model, beaut forest so feeling excited for it! Picking features fine at low speed but overshooting at pace... got to find the happy medium tomorrow

Lots of standing around...

Sorry in advance to anyone who is reading this but I have a lot of feelings I want to jot down about today.
To put it into perspective it doesn’t get much worse than this...
Was supposed to be running first leg on an adhoc team... to get to the quarantine and be told that the other girl had decided to change the order at check in (as that’s even allowed!?!?) this is after a day of putting up with her bitchyness and then complete refusal to even communicate with the other runners about if she was running at all! The organisers then argued about which of us was running first leg for about half hour... by which point it was about 15mins before call up and I still didn’t know what I was running!
When they told her she would have to stick to her original order she flatly refused to take off the first leg bib so it got to the point where everyone was done with arguing with her and I agreed to run 4th if they didn’t charge our country for it... also because by this point I was totally unprepared and not warmed up for first leg and sick of having this stupid cow make a scene in the team zone.

I wish I had just walked away and said I’m not running. And I’m annoyed I let myself get so worked up about a race that didn’t even matter... but I wanted a practise at running this format first leg.

She was so fucking slow that our team went out so far last... I had been in the warm up zone for over 45mins by the time I started and was by myself for the entire thing and I was not in a good frame of mind.
I had spent my time warming up really trying to calm down and focus being so aware that I was stressed... but evidently I just watched all the other teams and wound myself up even more. Thoughts of; this sucks that we don’t just have a team, look at all the other team managers... packing their athletes bags, standing in the toilet queue for them, sorting out their teams... we don’t have a Manager to fight the organisational battles with the stupid Spanish girl, I am completely alone in this quarantine... no wonder we are always one step behind (yeah proper melodramatic but it’s true... there are so many little things that are just not feasible and therefore don’t give us an edge).
I thought I’d calmed myself down but obviously not. I made loads of mistakes and then for the first time ever just completely ran past a control and evidently dsq’ed. I had no fight, just felt lonely in quarantine, and on the course, and just kept thinking what a waste of time - I’m just putting unnecessary kms into my legs before tomorrow middle.

It was great to have a good warm down chat with Lizzie and get some of it off my chest and we actually had a right chuckle because it took a good 15mins for me to even realised I’d mp’ed... chatting about route choice and I’m suddenly just thinking hold on... I didn’t go there, what where are my splits, ohhh yeaaaah I really didn’t go there.
Had a good chat on the phone to Dad about how I feel about having to be so independent as an athlete at these races while you watch all the top teams get coddled and how easy it is to snowball in a bad state of mind if your overwhelmed by something.
One to bury in a deep dark box and quickly move on from, but also one to learn from!

I’m feeling sick, tired, overwhelmed, fed up and unprepared for these races. I’m hoping to calm down and go ok the next two days so I don’t go away from this weekend feeling completely disheartened which I feared would happen if I started international races again before I felt ready.

Good chats and photo stops with Lizzie

WU not feeling good

Pretty disappointed in the map... felt like I was doing a parkrun for half of it. Not feeling up to it, not got the speed and looking over splits I made some big hesitations that cost me probably well over 45s all up. Finding it very hard to focus this weekend when I’m feeling so tired.
Came home and slept for a couple hours in the afternoon so body is obviously still pretty fatigued.

Found the SF and finals (and even QF to some extent) far more interesting to watch, better designed and more like orienteering. I can understand why they make the qualifier easier but frankly this may as well have been a white course or something for a child

Side note: didn’t like racing in these shoes

Easy itw... really tight left groin... I’m blaming Joe Law and his Sally’s and I’m gonna be mad at him if it’s still tight tomorrow

Hfw

Jog around the edge on the two sprint heats I got Brodie to set last weekend... had a bit of a mare with a client this morning, and on top of still being pretty low on energy, I also felt mentally drained... wasn’t picking routes well, planning ahead and sometimes even skipping controls... hopefully got that out my system and can find a bit more energy for tomorrow!

Planned to run PB and tonight but just slept both... been sleeping soooo much, esp considering I’ve had relatively easy days at work... hopefully it’s helped and I feel better tomorrow pls pls pls

Cancelled morning clients because I was still feeling so tired despite sleeping loads on the weekend... easy day in the shop but was getting pretty cranky and restless so just went out for a little jog! Easy round west one map, still getting a bit lightheaded

good turnout... lads being lads