Training Log Archive: jennycas

Around Panorama with Fern, Tyson, John, Simon. I knew where I was going!

It was a war of attrition among the Arrows today, but I was actually looking forward to the long race. The forest was pleasant spur-gully - if it had mallee trees then I would have been running at Burra. Bloody tired though, both in my head and legs. I got a rest halfway to the first control when some old guy who had slashed his wrist on the derelict fence needed help wrapping it up (there wasn't nearly as much blood as I leaked from my knee at Easter, but he was a bit spooked).

Ran fairly cleanly and solidly, lost my head running into 6 (the vague termite mound) where Anna caught and passed me. In hindsight, I veered right away from a patch of smoking ground and crossed the gully which was so shallow I didn't notice it, then saw the track to the east in the distance but thought it was the track to the north. Probably lost 4-5 min there.

The neuroma in my foot was a bastard from the spectator leg to the map change. Usually plays up at about the hour mark then I know it will settle, but jeez it hurts at the time. I had already worked out what was going to happen in the second part which was a bit boring, but as I went into the spectator leg Tracy and Clare passed me so I chased them which provided a bit of impetus.

Happy with my run but would like to know what I can do to get under about 90. Have 3 kids, if Tracy's example is anything to go by...only joking! I can tell I've lost core stability because of not running in the terrain for a month, so I might go bush a bit more before Pichi Richi.

Event: SILVA National Orienteering League
 

Sand mining sounded like fun, and mostly it was. I took a couple of wider route choices on purpose to get a better attack point and it paid off, though may not have been as fast as going direct and crossing my fingers.
Going back up the hill in the open stuff was a bit of a slog and I thought I was too high when actually I was too low on the long leg, but the rest was okay.

Bruce CIT is pretty small and I wondered how they would get decent courses out of it. We crossed the same area so many times that eventually I was running on map memory, and my route choice looks like spaghetti. Going past the steam rising from the underground vent was pretty cool. Only control I had trouble with was on the south side of the buildings where the gravel road was mapped the same as the bitumen.

Didn't want to do this as much as I wanted to sleep in.....

This was originally going to involve intervals or fartlek or some such but my hip/hamstring/ITB was too painful. Sitting all day at a desk will do that to you. Lots of stretching.

Only 6 more tickets to use up before the pool closes for winter, at the end of May....

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With Helen and Fern after warmup with everyone else. I felt that my newly-massaged calves should not do intervals!

Attack Of the Killer Physio

Should a fly happen to land on you, when you have needles sticking out everywhere, it is extremely difficult to brush it off! My legs feel much better after being thoroughly stretched and beaten up. Shoulders were pretty tight too, I had been waking up with pins and needles down my arm.

Strengthening and stretching 20 min