Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Long run from Shep's mom's place with Shep, Andy, and Prong through Royal National Park. Thought I was going to die for the first hour, then felt better. Stopping for a swim halfway through was great, felt much better after that. Awesome run, saw a wallaby, a water dragon, and a whole lot of cockatoos.

Lunsen on WorldOfO's 101 Maps to Run on Before You Die: http://orienteeringmaps.net/blog/2010/02/12/lunsen...
Absolutely worthy of inclusion on this list, one of my favorite places to orienteer.

C • Lunsen 1

An early evening run from Surry Hills. Ran down and around Centennial Park, exploring as much as I could and stopping to take pictures of the black swans and the pelicans. Gorgeous park, nice to have it just a few minutes away.

Warm-up and cool-down with Andy and Amy. Hamstring felt ok on the warm-up, as long as I didn't try to run hard.

Sydney Summer Series #19 - Vineyard Creek
After the warm-up, I decided I would try running but never pushing the pace. This actually worked out better than last week since I started at a reasonable pace that I could keep up for the entire 50 minutes without feeling totally dead like I did after 15 minutes last Wednesday. Hamstring hurt occasionally, but never so much that I contemplated stopping. Ended up getting 29/30 controls and coming in 5 minutes overtime for 540/600 points. Andy got 560. Made mistakes on 13 (going up the creek into the control instead of taking the trail around. This meant running through green and a lot of lizards and spiderwebs.) and 23, about 30 seconds each. Much smoother navigating in general, though.
Map with course: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
Map with my routes: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
Funny write-up of the event: http://www.sydneysummerseries.com.au/pg2.htm#news
Results: http://www.sydneysummerseries.com.au/200910/SSS091...

Limping around today. Will take the day off and hope to be able to jog around the Summer Series event tomorrow.

C • SSS Travel 2

Warm-up and cool-down with Andy and Peter.

Sydney Sprint Series #6
Gladesville Hospital - a nice area with a lot of tricky places and uncrossable walls, but a less-than-perfect map not to sprint standards. I started this race very badly, making poor choices to 1 and 2 and then a horrible choice to 3, getting stuck and having to run around a long stretch of green and a cliff. This cost me 1:30! Gradually got better after that, and the end of the race was pretty good technically, but the hamstring that I pulled last Wednesday was clearly re-injured by running hard and caused me lots of pain the whole way. It is really frustrating to keep getting injured like this on top of my existing and never-going-away injury. Ugh.
Even a perfect run wouldn't have put me close to Andy's awesome 14:33.
Map: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
Results: http://www.nsw.orienteering.asn.au/sprintseries/sp...

A run on parts of the Great North Walk starting from Pymble with Andy, Ezy, and Glenn. A great run on nice forest trails, with a few exciting river crossings thrown in. The water level was extremely high because of the heavy rains, and we were up to nearly waist-deep a couple of times. Another highlight was a water dragon that was sitting on top of a pipe that was shooting out a tremendous amount of water into the river. Ezy spooked the beast, making it dive head-first down the resulting waterfall.
Very cool run with good company, and a great way to see more of Sydney!