Training Log Archive: Tynomite

10:52 AM. Para Wirra.
Burned 812.2034 calories.
Para Wirra OY Course: M21AS 5.8 km 215 m

Oh golly. What a race. It never starts well when i don't even feel like going out on course - I've had a lazy week, and felt like a lazy Sunday. But 1-2-3-4 were some of my worst orienteering in a while. Once i told myself to "harden the fook up" i started to think and act more clearly. Still my legs needed more encouragement. Felt like bailing at a few controls but got thorugh the worst of that. To recap 1-4:
Start to 1: Didn't think, ran off without a plan, no bearing and not much of a clue, too late to reconsider, so just kept going for the track
1 to 2: Again, no proper direction, once i hit the fence, i thought "hey, lets use that"
2 to 3: Oh the whopper - Sauntered out of 2 with a better idea of direction, but was still dragged down hill it seems. Then i hit what i thought was a cliff, searching the map i found a cliff that was north of my control, and it seemed feasable that i had drifted this far. WRONG. What i couldn't see untill i had turned south and reached the shade of the trees was a little bare rock, barely visible on the map. Oh joy. Lets climb up the hill and try all this again.
3 to 4: grr hmmph, and F^^%$##. That is all i have to say about that leg.

3 - Splits

5:50 PM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 496 calories.

6:43 PM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 441 calories.

5:12 PM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 500 calories.
The Block

Up Suffolk Road, down Olave Hill Road. I made it around before the light died away. Quite a pleasant and cool evening.

5:11 PM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 550 calories.
Minnow Creek Loop

A nice evening run along Minnow Creek. Lot's of dog walkers and so many off lead wanting to trip you up (the dogs not the owners). Felt pretty good for a change.

6:46 PM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 470 calories.
Monday Run

run around the 'dene with Jenny and Simon. It was cold.

10:19 AM. Mount Crawford.
Burned 453 calories.
Chalks Minor Event Course: 3 5.2 km 120 m

The typical Mount Crawford experience - cold, damp, lots of crap on the ground and legs that only require you to go diagonally across bloody one way runnable forest. Still the epitomy of Adelaide Orienteering. Reasonably straight forward course, though i got so confused between 8 and 9 as the contours just don't seem that right here. I think the gull is much deeper than depicted on the map. Lovell's Bakery for lunch with the family. Patrick had a mum milkshake.

9:18 AM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 375 calories.
Belair Loop

A grand morning for a ride. Dusted the cobwebs of Matt the Mountain Bike and rode him around the park (that inuendo was not intended). I seem to have lost the ability to pump oxygen around my body as i really struggled up any sort of hill at all without having to have mulitple rests. So many people out and about in the park. I'm so pleased that trail running has really become popular, and that those people are all friendly. It's great to finally share the lesser known parts of the park with people who enjoy it too!

6:43 PM. Hawthorndene.
Burned 354 calories.
Very Small Run

Run with Simon and Bridget in the bitter bitter cold. Simon spent the whole time coughing while bridget didn't stop singing "Here's Humphrey"

1:22 PM. Tungkillo.
Burned 327 calories.
Control Checking

Checking Controls for the CLub Relays. Beautiful day, lets hope it is like this for the event.....