Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Sprint training at Massey.. ind starts. Two 5 min intervals and a12min course (I think, lap button didn't work). Rest wu and wd and jogs in between. Good stuff

Out to whiteria for another sprint. Mass start this time vs the boys and ellie. Love the technical campus here, and they're putting up some.more small buildings too. Woo.
Almost finished within sight of Joe...almost.

Collecting the last of the rogaine tapes from skyline with the gg

Indoor. Another win. Another goal-less game for me. Gotta find my aim

o-gang run up Otari from Bengtsson's. Good pace up front with Greg, Joe and Stu today. Did some bunny chasing.

From wilton bush, south toward the sanctuary, up and across to Johnston's hill and back through the lower tracks in Wilton. Managed to avoid the gale force Northerly, with the sacrifice of having to run a couple of km on concrete (ew)

o-max around Oma Rapeti. Cool little map with a maze of tracks in native bush, 1:2500 map with 5m contours haha. Very easy to miss a track turn off and then be very lost.
Lost about 30s on #4 when I got the wrong track and went the long way around a loop. Otherwise happy and clean. A few ankle tweaks on roots along the way but all good.
Lucky I didn't read the name of the map before the run, as once I did I just had the song in my head the rest of the evening...

i forgot my watch so need to wait for Ellie to log hers before I know time and distance... ;)

Standard short wilton loop. Legs feeling remarkably OK after yesterday

From Waiohine gorge CP up the valley along the gorge, then on up to Cone saddle and up the ridge to Mt Cone. Met Granny goat on top, who'd tramped through from Otaki forks over the previous day and a bit. We timed it remarkably well, with her arriving on the top 5mins before me. Not bad considering we were both 30mins behind our agreed meeting time!
4 and a bit km along the rough and rooty single track along the valley in the muggy heat to begin with. Then turned hard left and up the saddle track, which isn't exactly maintained, although someone had helpfully put up orange tapes in the most overgrown bits. The track climbs quickly to 570m, before then dropping a bit and sidling back up toward the saddle at 560m. I refilled my water at the bottom of the climb, but was thankful for the couple of stream crossings towards the top where I could restock before hitting the top ridge.
From the saddle to the top is about 2.5km with 500m climb. Hadn't eaten enough by this point, so was a struggle on the last climbs. Happy to find mum on the top and collapse in a sheltered nook in the snow grass to eat lunch.

Took GG's larger pack for the steep descent back down to the Cone hut turn off

Swapped packs again and got to let loose down the last descent back to the gorge. Nice long ice bath for my legs while waiting for the GG at the bottom (while chilling the bottle of L&P in the river)