Training Log Archive: Zed

Day off today so I ran during daylight. Callum and I ran up the valley to Melville house track, left and up and over to Redwoods then up to top of QJD and home. Legs felt inexplicably tired!
Biddy I hope you read this as you will be impressed- I spent the first 2-3 km from the gate above the golf course up to Karka doing a word search! Finding numbers as words 1 -16 . Took me 20 minutes to complete and I ran slowly!! I hope my brain appreciates it's workout.

Spent rest of day until well into evening being domestic. Trying to pay more attention to catering ( until I get over it again.)

C • Word search 4

I have been studying my strava trace from Sunday with satellite background and it's quite revealing.
Bearings! Checking accuracy on control exit would help, even when 'just running out to a track.' Comparing myself with someone else on the same course (BC, also on strava) is also revealing and somewhat painful! His trace is 'Tysonesque'.

Stop start run with both dogs. Up to Karka and back.

O training exercise at Veale Gardens plus warm up and down. In a relay taking turns map reading and doing a word search. Poor Toby got paired with me and had to practice patience. Word search on the run was pretty hard! I nearly ran into a few things.

Includes waiting at lights.

Lunch time swim. Had a 50 m lane to myself felt really good to stretch out. Focused on a strong pull through the water and good rhythm and rolling my shoulders smoothly.

Course 3, 6.6 km
I enjoyed myself very much in the forest. Early on prior to making any mistakes I found myself thinking I was so glad to be orienteering rather than being on the nearby Mount Crawford trail run. My bearings varied from good to not. At times tracks were a better option for me. My time was pretty slow. My strava trace is revealing not the smooth flow I dream of!. On one leg (7-8 ) I had huge difficulty following my compass as my brain just couldn't match map to ground. I had to force reason ( represented by the compass) over ( incorrect) instinct. Annoyingly when I came across my control 12 on way to 8 I didn't realise it was on my course and missed an opportunity to take a much more direct route, continuing my clunky 'safe' / time consuming course. I was hailed on mid course. By the end I was pretty cold! I almost wished I did course 2 instead of 3 to see the higher ground and to have some longer legs.

Went home happy having enjoyed the course overall but I would like to get cleaner. More attention to exit direction, and keeping the plan together for the whole leg needed.

Loop in Belair with Callum - shortened version of the steps loop.

Slippery wet run down Turners and a lap around the forest with Leith. I was trailing behind with Bear being a tripping hazard dancing around my feet. Felt fine though, so pleased about that.