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Saturday Nov 8, 2014 #
9 AM
Run ((orienteering)) 1:15:46 [3] *** 7.9 km (9:35 / km) +360m 7:49 / km
spiked:12/14c
Perhaps it's not such a bad thing I got my WMOC long problems out of the way in the same year. My cold took a significant turn for the worse overnight, and I barely slept (which may or may not have been related), so it wouldn't have been a great day to have been attempting to race hard in an A final.
I was in two minds about whether or not to go out at all but decided I might as well at least see how it felt. It didn't actually turn out too badly - cruised around and enjoyed myself on most of the course (except its more physical bits - the eight-contour climb through partially felled area on the way to 1 felt almost as big as the Bon Accord wall), without any sense that I would have had an extra gear to use had I been trying to race seriously. Only a couple of tiny wobbles on 4 and 9. Caught the Swede who I considered my most likely challenger for fastest time today (like me, he had an 11th and a DNF) at 5, and got away on a route choice on the way to 7. Ended up having the fastest time by 8 minutes (though it isn't officially a "win" because people who don't complete the qualifiers aren't eligible for official B final results), which is a pretty good indicator that it was a race I had no business being in (even at considerably reduced capacity).
Course was quite physical but had very little in the native forest (just a couple of creek crossings). More surprisingly, the A final didn't have that much there either and their course profile wasn't so different to ours. Looking at their results, I think even at full strength I'd have struggled to make the top 10, with a position around 12-15 more likely (in today's shape something around 20th would have been more realistic).
Jenny won again. Other Australian top 10s: 7th for Paul and 10th for Ted in M60, and 9th for Ann in W70. Geoff's picked up a similar bug to me and was well down. Simon, I think, can also be pleased with 15th in M35 in his first attempt at this level.
So ends a week which started with promise but ended in frustration. The next stage of the adventure starts from here - beginning with an overnight trip to Iguacu Falls tomorrow night. The plan is certainly to keep up regular training throughout (except if trekking), but it may not conform to patterns as regular as I usually do, with long runs on days when I'm in one place for a couple of days and probably the odd rest day when the transport schedule doesn't allow any other options.
(I'll have about 7 hours to kill in Porto Alegre tomorrow - will be searching for a sports bar or equivalent, as tomorrow afternoon features the Brazilian Grand Prix followed by the Porto Alegre derby in football, a particularly high-stakes affair as both teams are in the pack of four within two points fighting for 3rd-6th and the last two places in the South American club championship - Fluminense, who I saw in Rio, are in that bunch too - and might even be close enough to challenge for the title if the leaders stumble. Don't expect a lot of goals - the season record of Gremio, one of the teams involved, is played 32, goals for 27, goals against 18).
I was in two minds about whether or not to go out at all but decided I might as well at least see how it felt. It didn't actually turn out too badly - cruised around and enjoyed myself on most of the course (except its more physical bits - the eight-contour climb through partially felled area on the way to 1 felt almost as big as the Bon Accord wall), without any sense that I would have had an extra gear to use had I been trying to race seriously. Only a couple of tiny wobbles on 4 and 9. Caught the Swede who I considered my most likely challenger for fastest time today (like me, he had an 11th and a DNF) at 5, and got away on a route choice on the way to 7. Ended up having the fastest time by 8 minutes (though it isn't officially a "win" because people who don't complete the qualifiers aren't eligible for official B final results), which is a pretty good indicator that it was a race I had no business being in (even at considerably reduced capacity).
Course was quite physical but had very little in the native forest (just a couple of creek crossings). More surprisingly, the A final didn't have that much there either and their course profile wasn't so different to ours. Looking at their results, I think even at full strength I'd have struggled to make the top 10, with a position around 12-15 more likely (in today's shape something around 20th would have been more realistic).
Jenny won again. Other Australian top 10s: 7th for Paul and 10th for Ted in M60, and 9th for Ann in W70. Geoff's picked up a similar bug to me and was well down. Simon, I think, can also be pleased with 15th in M35 in his first attempt at this level.
So ends a week which started with promise but ended in frustration. The next stage of the adventure starts from here - beginning with an overnight trip to Iguacu Falls tomorrow night. The plan is certainly to keep up regular training throughout (except if trekking), but it may not conform to patterns as regular as I usually do, with long runs on days when I'm in one place for a couple of days and probably the odd rest day when the transport schedule doesn't allow any other options.
(I'll have about 7 hours to kill in Porto Alegre tomorrow - will be searching for a sports bar or equivalent, as tomorrow afternoon features the Brazilian Grand Prix followed by the Porto Alegre derby in football, a particularly high-stakes affair as both teams are in the pack of four within two points fighting for 3rd-6th and the last two places in the South American club championship - Fluminense, who I saw in Rio, are in that bunch too - and might even be close enough to challenge for the title if the leaders stumble. Don't expect a lot of goals - the season record of Gremio, one of the teams involved, is played 32, goals for 27, goals against 18).