Training Log Archive: Bomb

Easter day 3. A bit of a crazy easter schedule (arriving at midnight on thursday night, then getting lifts everywhere and having to go to meetings on sat afternoon) meant that I hadn't managed to get to shops all weekend. finally managed to sort that out on sunday afternoon, and at least got part of my normal post/pre race schedule sorted out before the final race. in this case specifically a post race beer on sunday night, and pre race coffee monday morning.
ta-da! legs were back! yay! unfortunately it took a little while to re-synch legs and brain to race pace and things went massively astray in the really vague area to #2 and I totally lost the plot - had everything lined up nicely, but the control I found was the wrong number. oops. then everything I tried to relocate off wasn't on the map. turns out I wasn't too far away, but nothing I could identify was on the map. ended up bailing to the fence and came in from that fine, but in the mean time had blown 9mins. got a bit pissed off after that and stormed though the next few controls. generally happy with the rest of the course. probably lost another 2mins in bad route choices, and the legs faded over the last part of the course.

really disappointed with the result - that mistake was the difference between a respectable easter and a disastrous one. the only consolation is that my legs did turn up eventually, and that with better preparation I can still run ok in May.

C2 Day 4 - Splits

Easter long distance. a little cooler today, which I hoped my help my running, although I already felt like I'd run a classic before I started. navigated reasonably well - just a few wobbles in control circles, but never had the speed I needed for a race like this. really great area, and would have been really fun with speedy legs!

C2 Day 3 - Splits

Easter middle distance. another hot day, and felt pretty crappy after yesterday in the heat. felt like I was cooking before I even warmed up.
started the course ok, but felt like I was getting really pushed around in the fallen trees - most time lost due to getting pushed off line or stuck rather than mistakes, but still managed a few wobbles in control circles. saw vanessa about 1/2 way around, and she caught me a few controls later. ran a few good legs together, but managed to stuff each other up a fair bit as well, particularly the second last.
pretty unimpressed with the run in general, really shouldn't be struggling that much physically.

C2 Day 2 - Splits

hot day, not enough sleep and legs felt pretty ordinary warming up. I was also a bit concerned about adjusting to the scale as our attempts at training on granite sprint maps had been thwarted by maps that were so bad they were useless. The first control proved be exactly what I had feared, and I only just figured out the scale before I ran over it. that sorted out the scale issue though, and I was mostly ok from then on. I saw kathryn and sarah around number 4, and ran a fair bit with kathryn from then on - she was a fair bit faster running, but wasn't finding the controls too cleanly.
really fun area, and happy to get around without any stuffups.

Day 1 (Prologue) Medium - Splits

plod around anzac park.