Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Ran street-O at Mont Albert as a tempo run of sorts (though you always seem to be slower in the dark). This was longer than most street-O courses are, and I always had the sense that (a) I hadn't done a very good job of the route choice and (b) I was going to struggle to get them all inside the hour. The bid to do the latter was further derailed by some unusually sloppy navigation for a street-O (the first one probably wasn't in the right place, but the other two mistakes were entirely my own). Decided after 14 controls that I probably didn't have time to get them all inside 60 minutes (or even inside 61, which would have been worth it because the control I ended up dropping was a 5-pointer and the per-minute late penalty is 3).

Tonight, though, was mostly about the running and trying my hand at going a bit faster again. I wasn't always comfortable doing so, but did feel a bit quicker in the second half (and the splits bore that out). A long outing for a first faster street-O and I'll be interested to see how I back up in the morning.