Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Updated last week's posts with DOMA maps etc.

Around the wildlife sanctuary clockwise starting from North Karori. Added in some off-the-fence mtb tracks for variety, up to the turbine. Only saw one biker (look for the spike in my HR, I wasn't paying much attention and got a surprise. Oops.)
Followed the single tracks up to the turbine. Except, there is no turbine now. Apparently it reached the end of it's safe and useful life and is being replaced by a bigger, better, shinier one. Not a fan, the original turbine is a Wellington icon. Sad to see it go, even if keeping it would have simply been a nostalgic indulgence.

Other than the one biker it was just me out there, running around in the cloud and rain, with the sound of the birds and dinosaurs in the sanctuary for company :)

C • redundancy 2

Short skyline run from Crofton Downs over to Mt Kaukau and down. Gusty Northerly to battle with all the way up the electricity board track, and along the ridgeline. Good to have though or would have been stinking hot.

Bonus day in Christchurch. Run from Georgia's up into the Port Hills. Took the 'least-steep' track...hmmm all relative I spose? Once I could see the radio tower on top, of course I had to go to it. Stopped for views at the top, before winding my way down.
Georgia warned me not to go on one particular track unless I wanted to be decapitated by mountain bikers...but I couldn't remember which track it was. So that added some spice to the descent.

Hot day out at the otago middle champs at bannockburn. Awesome gold mining terrain set on the steep slope above the town. Steep downhill start with a tricky no.1, i overshot slightly but sighted no.18 and could realign myself off it to relocate. Tje course worked its way to the bottom of the map where i caught la up before starting the slog back up. Small slip on 13 in the area where i remember losing a lot of time as a headless chicken back at nationals 2010... The area is full of knolls and rock heaps split by erosion gullies, short legs but very easy to get off direction as you search for ways down and up the gullies.

From there we traversed up to the main basin. With the final leg being a b!tch of a climb up to the rim. Rough going for the end of a course, let alone end of a week of racing!

Map: http://ogang.org/doma/show_map.php?user=lizziei&ma...

Otago long champs with a course that was suspiciously similar in shape to nationals long champs 2010...
Maybe lost 45s on five otherwise clean through to 22 where i fluffed 20s or so in the circle, despite being wary following the lung buster climb.
Closest ive been to beating the whole m20e field i think. Just cameron ahead by 30s...satisfied to be so close...but aaaah shoulf have had it! ;)

Map: http://ogang.org/doma/show_map.php?user=lizziei&ma...

Jog round fields and control collecting.

4min interval doing the first and most interesting part of the sprint course, through the school.

Rest day. Have been adopted as R5 for a couple of days. Went for a family walk out at lake sylvan. Couple of hours relaxing walk in what would be some amazing orienteering terrain if we could get access from DOC. Tim and I kept sprinting off trail on little excursions to run through the beautiful terrain.