Training Log Archive: jennycasIn the 1 days ending Aug 16, 2014:
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Saturday Aug 16, 2014 #
10 AM
orienteering race (Booragul sprint) 18:15 [3] 2.2 km (8:18 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 19
So, we flew into Sydney last night and after a quick breakfast in Glebe headed up the freeway towards Newcastle. The event was at a high school on the shores of Lake Macquarie and I had a great view of yachts and rowers while taping my ankles. The race was good - a well set course with plenty of changes of direction and some long legs with the multiple gates about which we had been warned to carefully check whether or not they had been mapped as open. My ability to race was suboptimal, being pretty tentative on my knee and also apparently unable to lift my legs up any sort of an incline. I hesitated a bit choosing a route choice to 5 (there was only one viable option but it took me a while to convince myself of this), and misread where I thought an open gate would be on the way to 6 so doubled back when I could just have gone a bit further to another gate. And I can now see at least 3 better routes to 12 than the one I took. But oh well, it was definitely fun, although I'm slightly startled that some of the guys took 13 min for this course.
2 PM
orienteering race (Glendale sprint) 19:51 [3] 2.2 km (9:01 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 19
This afternoon's course had more climb and trickier split levels with ramps and stairs, being on a hillside. I didn't go the best way to 1 so approached it from the top of the stairs, which I then ran straight back up because I started navigating to 3 not 2. Correcting this effort involved a few otherwise unnecessary flights of stairs, then it seemed like I dropped quite a bit of height on the long leg to 4 and had to climb through an excessive number of courtyards, but I think everybody had to. Uphill's when I just seem to have no pushoff whatsoever, and so I was quite a bit slower on this course, except when running away from the swooping plover. Good fun though, and an area I'd like to run on again.
We headed into Newcastle afterwards and used the last of the daylight to drive around the foreshore admiring the view through the rain, before correctly identifying the restaurant strip. Within 200m there are 3 Thai and 3 Vietnamese restaurants, plus enough other options to make you think you're on Lygon St.
We headed into Newcastle afterwards and used the last of the daylight to drive around the foreshore admiring the view through the rain, before correctly identifying the restaurant strip. Within 200m there are 3 Thai and 3 Vietnamese restaurants, plus enough other options to make you think you're on Lygon St.