Training Log Archive: Lizzie

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knew my sprint form wasnt in bad nick going into this race so was looking forward to racing against the nz girls again.
- got thrown straight into the detail from the 1st control, luckily our 1st was pretty simple and gave a chance to read ahead a little bit. (unlike mum's 1st control which looked pretty insane!).
- #2 a lot of people lost a fair bit of time on, but i picked the right gap and although i stopped dead for a second to read the intricacies of the map, got it cleanly. extra confusing due to the description of paved area corner, rather than a building corner.
- 3 i'd already decided to head back out to the front of the school, didnt really see the other route to the back, prob cos it was more complicated. so good choice.
- 4 was my main time loss. just didnt read ahead enough and before i knew it i was off my route choice and double taked up the steps. then decided the control was half way up the hill (it isnt), so road was a bad choice (it wasnt). went across the carpark and down the hill, then had to go around an uncrossable wall. silly and unnecessary loss of time.
- was going to go through the courts to 6 but was blocked by a hockey goal so went around.
- 7 i should have cut through the white to the top more, too hesitant.
- 8 didnt read the description, so only found it was at the bottom of the wall when i got there, should have gone other way around the last building.
- happy with route to 9, stayed clear of detail and blasted round the road. again others lost a fair bit of time going through.
- cant even remember 10, just was there suddenly!
- lost time coming out of 11 in the maze of tracks. otherwise happy though amber took a chunk of time out of us going over the hill. so should have considered that route more.
- rest was pretty straight forward, though i heard the loudspeaker going through the spectator saying i was way infront==subconcious easing off in last loop. stink. wish they wouldnt say it when you can hear!
- lost time on 20 as i glanced at the map to see if the bank/cliff was passable or not and instead read the impassable fence next to it. so hesitated, stopped, ran along it a bit. decided id misread as everyone had gone over it, and then went. lost 5s there. dumb.

happy all up, nice to be back in it :)

Course 2 - Splits

run around palmy airport with brother. was at a decent clip as he has long legs and is getting pretty fit! stomach felt real gluggy thanks to iced mocha an hour prior to run. legs good though

3 days to go... getting pretty excited! :D

while watching morning tv, i'm embarrassed to admit...

up to the saddle

monas. felt good yeah. didnt quite make it back to start point, 28s off. but more up hill on way back

home time

Run with one of the french guys from work who's been saying for weeks that i should take him for a run. He started out way too fast for me, but being the stubborn pig i am i just stuck with it, and took him up the steepest, roughest track i could think of to slow him down! Seemed to work and we did 1 and a bit laps of circumsicion at a nice pace. beaut evening for it, was just awesome. Bit dark coming down though, but not quite dark enough for the full moon to light our way though!

whilst watching the last quarter of the pulse-tactix game on tv. who knows why they show it here, but the pulse managed to win. which has only happened 3 times this year i think, and possibly on 5 times in their history?!

over to st johns in deakon for 1st aid course

and home, thankfully before it got too dark and cold :)

up to the saddle, down and over bruce ridge. couldnt help doing a few single tracks on the way, but then it occurred that maybe that wasnt the best idea with nats in a week! managed to stay on anyway but yeah :)
eventually i got myself over to UC

running warmups before the 2 exercises

sprint race round uni of canberra. not ideal shoes for it, but was biking over and didnt want to leave a bag with my bike.
pretty sweet area, with plenty of hidden little passages. unfortunately no.5 was in construction area, so had to do quite a detour to get 4 - 4.5 - 6.
felt incredibly dodgy sprinting around the accommodation buildings! to the point that i didnt go right to some controls (the ones at the inside bottom of the walls running around the buildings). Messed up in the 2nd bit in the accomm as all the buildings look the same! tricky.
pretty ave all up really but good to get a hit out before next week

stopped at bruce ridge on the way back home and reran controls 3-13 from the NOL race in march. I think i had the complete opposite run from then, spiking ones i missed before, and messing up the ones i'd done well! guess that shows i was concentrating more on improving my mistakes from last time and not enough on clean navigating the entire way!
still felt like a headless chicken. splits make for interesting reading, but overall time is pretty similar; 13.44 this time, 13.38 last time!

between exercises, a couple of last single tracks and back home. minus a minute or so for when my chain decided it didn't like running round in circles anymore

ps. foot felt sweet today. yays