Training Log Archive: jennycas

Stefano, Orienteering SA's visiting Italian coach, has mapped Apex Park playground plus the surrounding BMX track & creek at Hawthorndene, and set sprint training tonight. Which was lots of fun because we were paired up to do 3 short courses of about 1km each, alternating as a relay. I was paired with Zara and I lost time on the very first control because I could see it but I couldn't get through the thicket to punch it (Simon crawled where I didn't dare) and also later on threw away a couple of minutes where both Meredith & I got really confused looking on the wrong - unmapped - mound near the creek because we'd stopped too soon. After this I realised that Z & I had the same course configuration for our team as Meredith & Des did, and it turned out that our teams had fairly similar overall speed! Meredith runs faster than me but she kept her feet dry whereas on the last leg I splashed through the creek 3 times, having taken my cue from Zara who was wisely thinking like a rogainer :)
9:57 - stuffed this one up
5:41 - shortest
8:49 - longest

Parked at the playground and ran across to meet the others at Belair, so that I could make a quick getaway later, but I hadn't counted on it being a relay and so was late for online OA Board meeting (which was also causing me to snub my spouse on his birthday, but we'll do something nice together this weekend).