Training Log Archive: nh

Wasn't very focused going into the race so as a result I made lots of silly mistakes at the beginning of the course and couldn't get into the map.

Map 1
Started off with James so I pushed it a little at the beginning to show him I had this race and kept in the lead. Didn't read the map enough though and got caught out by a dead end. Did a full face plant off a cliff at 2 and lost my compass so I did the rest of the classic without it. Difficult climbing the bank from the stream after 3, and made a silly decision on 5, taking the wrong cemetery road. Cut in to the wrong re-entrant on 7, but thought I was in the right and lost a lot of time here, including climbing the slippery bank back out of it. Simple controls back to the pivot

Spiked 13 and ran low on 14 as it looked like a better entry into the control than the upper route, which also had a large bush climb. Slow into 17, spiked 20.

Map 2
Simple routes 1-3, but overshot 3 after climbing the bank. Slow through 5 and 6. Attacked the course through this section as it was really fast but quite easy to overshoot controls, and I wanted to increase my lead. Ran too low on 13, cutting directly south and contouring would have saved some time. Difficult entry into 14, hard to tell how far around the track I'd run. Mostly strait to 15 and 16. Took the most obvious route to 17 staying low but keeping to fast areas. Worried I was going to miss the indistinct track though. Took the easy option to 21.

Map 3
Dropped in too low on 3 as I was confused about the extra re-entrants not shown. Also didn't have a solid attack-point on 5. Tried to cut down the gully to 6, but it was full of ongaonga. Glad I didn't though, running the top was definitely best. Tricky picking the spur on 8 and I overshot it. Found a large area of fight while climbing to 9, and mucked 10 thinking it was in the re entrant.

Attacked the hills a little hard and wrecked my quads by the end. Should have slowed a faction in the beginning to get my head into the race.

Fartlek in the Botans with Jamie, did some extra running before and after to add some length. Went 100% on the last two hills and felt pretty smashed, but great afterwards when I'd recovered. Great fun hitting every hill hard, then a good jog home after to remove lactic

Ran around Otari and the skyline. managed to score a break in the storm so I had fine weather for the whole run! Lots of fallen trees and branches over the tracks form snow weight. Still a lot of snow up on the skyline. Tried to keep my HR at 145 which is about 70% of my max, but it felt to easy and 160bpm was much more comfortable.

Sweet run up on the Skyline in the snow, waist deep in places! Really tiring though, was planning to get to Kaukau but didn't even get close, the snow was so hard to run in. So much fun though

Ran to the supermarket to get some stuff for dinner