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Thursday Aug 13, 2015 #
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So, WOC is over
I moved to my flat in Germany on Monday, and been pretty busy getting set up there since. I haven't been doing any training except for the 15 minute walk to the uni, but I bought a bike today so I've got that going for me. All in all, I have the "post Europe depression" except I haven't left Europe!
Have also had time to look over my races at WOC from GPS and splits. Don't really expect anyone to read this it's just me putting it down for a record.
Sprint Relay: probably the best i've felt biomechanically (injury free, fit, fresh) for a few years that day. knew what I needed to do for the team and was really enjoying myself. watched a little group of runners go out just as simon was coming in to changeover, which put me off my race plan. instead of being extra careful in the dunes I went full gas trying to catch them, and messed the first one up, by about 15seconds. tactically I don't think this mistake made much difference, cos suddenly I was with canada and GB, which helped me through the tricky stuff up to the spectator heaps. but the mistake felt awful. let GB do a lot of the navigating, then unleashed what I could in the parkland. saw one brief glimpse of BUL/ESP but the GPS shows how close they were, we were catching them all the time. so I'm happy with my run in the end, managed to deliver hanny up close to a lot of teams. every country is so closely matched in sprints, the difference between top ten and 16th is nothing.
Middle: Really off day. hard to describe, feeling ok warming up and knowing what to do in the forest, but just no mental space or something. couldn't focus or run hard until late in the race. felt so slow in all the really crap terrain, and evidently everyone else could go hard. then all of a sudden into fast stuff, then finished, but did manage to stuff up the second last one (that thierry messed up). so not happy with this run, embarrased really.
Relay: after the day before, I was so amped for this one. unlike last year I had confidence and was relaxed about it all, could kind of look around and enjoy the moment while waiting for simon. had heaps of headspace, and while navigating I could abstract myself from the race and be able to assess what was going on and think through my technique. started with spain and ukraine roughly simultaneously. was pretty sure oleksandr kratov was gonna drop me but I was confident with taking this spanish guy on, but they slowly got ahead of me. I was prepared for a lot of forking, but no one was prepared for 6 way forking in quarantine. on my own after a few controls, but it felt good, and I was getting glimpses of kratov in front of me for ages which kept me confident (GPS shows there was actually a group forming around him but I never saw anyone). Some small wobbles from me while on my own. then as the terrain opened up, there was spain! (although I couldn't remember if i started with them or germany cos i was fully in the red zone physically). then suddenly there was Russia, WTF were they doing back here with the minaut countries! maxed out the heart rate to keep up but didn't really, leaving Brodie with a tough job to do knowing there were teams tantalisingly close to him ahead. Moral of this race was that simon and I needed to be a lot fitter to give us any chance, even if brodie had a good race 23rd wasn't much to race for. so in the end I was happy that i've finally had a clean run in the forest at WOC, and felt like I actually deserve to be there, but just not fit enough, it always feels like AUS starts each leg in the relay with a pack, and finishes the leg about 1min behind it. need higher price engine over the next few years.
Given how bad my trainings been the last 12 months i'm pretty happy with my personal performance, but really feel like I let the team down, entirely on my speed.
I moved to my flat in Germany on Monday, and been pretty busy getting set up there since. I haven't been doing any training except for the 15 minute walk to the uni, but I bought a bike today so I've got that going for me. All in all, I have the "post Europe depression" except I haven't left Europe!
Have also had time to look over my races at WOC from GPS and splits. Don't really expect anyone to read this it's just me putting it down for a record.
Sprint Relay: probably the best i've felt biomechanically (injury free, fit, fresh) for a few years that day. knew what I needed to do for the team and was really enjoying myself. watched a little group of runners go out just as simon was coming in to changeover, which put me off my race plan. instead of being extra careful in the dunes I went full gas trying to catch them, and messed the first one up, by about 15seconds. tactically I don't think this mistake made much difference, cos suddenly I was with canada and GB, which helped me through the tricky stuff up to the spectator heaps. but the mistake felt awful. let GB do a lot of the navigating, then unleashed what I could in the parkland. saw one brief glimpse of BUL/ESP but the GPS shows how close they were, we were catching them all the time. so I'm happy with my run in the end, managed to deliver hanny up close to a lot of teams. every country is so closely matched in sprints, the difference between top ten and 16th is nothing.
Middle: Really off day. hard to describe, feeling ok warming up and knowing what to do in the forest, but just no mental space or something. couldn't focus or run hard until late in the race. felt so slow in all the really crap terrain, and evidently everyone else could go hard. then all of a sudden into fast stuff, then finished, but did manage to stuff up the second last one (that thierry messed up). so not happy with this run, embarrased really.
Relay: after the day before, I was so amped for this one. unlike last year I had confidence and was relaxed about it all, could kind of look around and enjoy the moment while waiting for simon. had heaps of headspace, and while navigating I could abstract myself from the race and be able to assess what was going on and think through my technique. started with spain and ukraine roughly simultaneously. was pretty sure oleksandr kratov was gonna drop me but I was confident with taking this spanish guy on, but they slowly got ahead of me. I was prepared for a lot of forking, but no one was prepared for 6 way forking in quarantine. on my own after a few controls, but it felt good, and I was getting glimpses of kratov in front of me for ages which kept me confident (GPS shows there was actually a group forming around him but I never saw anyone). Some small wobbles from me while on my own. then as the terrain opened up, there was spain! (although I couldn't remember if i started with them or germany cos i was fully in the red zone physically). then suddenly there was Russia, WTF were they doing back here with the minaut countries! maxed out the heart rate to keep up but didn't really, leaving Brodie with a tough job to do knowing there were teams tantalisingly close to him ahead. Moral of this race was that simon and I needed to be a lot fitter to give us any chance, even if brodie had a good race 23rd wasn't much to race for. so in the end I was happy that i've finally had a clean run in the forest at WOC, and felt like I actually deserve to be there, but just not fit enough, it always feels like AUS starts each leg in the relay with a pack, and finishes the leg about 1min behind it. need higher price engine over the next few years.
Given how bad my trainings been the last 12 months i'm pretty happy with my personal performance, but really feel like I let the team down, entirely on my speed.