Training Log Archive: O-ing

Olympic Park. Got tired at no. 10 and faded. Interesting course - short legs and variable speed up to 9 and then long easy sections after that. My speed dropped from 4 min ks to 4:30 at 10, until I picked it up for the last and the finish. Even with that, annoyingly consistent - 13 of 15 splits were between 7th and 11th fastest (I finished 9th), with the only exceptions #2 - 3rd and #11 - 14th.
So now I've finished 7th, 14th, 11th, 10th, 7th and 9th so far in this series.

Sprint - Splits

Hardys Bay on the Central Coast. With Ezy from Pymble until his front brake fell off on Mount White. Well, should say with Ezy until the start of Mt White - Ezy "likes hills". Severe climb near the end called "Wards Hill", 1km, 105m climb. Not to be repeated, but it got me to a new all time climb record.

Lane Cove. For the Nanny state-Donkey coverers-Knee jerk reactors and cry wolvers - I can report that there are no fallen trees or branches across the Fairyland track, 10 days after the fire. So, for the approx 5,000 burned or damaged trees close enough to the track to fall on someone thats a zero in 240hrsx60minutesx5000 =1 in 72 million chance of getting hit by a falling tree or branch.

C • Fallen Trees 1

Commute.

Commute

C • Serious Climb 4

Dundas Valley. Pretty shocking start up the massive hill to #11. #7 and #21 in the wrong place, but didn't lose any time. Overshot #6 after I didn't read the description. Also tried to go direct away from #16 and had to double back. Got #17 instead of #5 on advice from Cath. A long way, but worth it because I got in a minute early. Probably should have gone for #13, might have been late, but not two minutes worth.
EDIT. GPS trace shows that #7 was in the right place, but that the map is wrong (misplaced yellow on W side of creek). #21 was wrong, probably because the map is really wrong in this area. The road (Dandarbong Av) to the NE of the control site is shown about 100m short of where it should go, and everything else in that area is accordingly off, although the control was only about 40m off - so the setter did well to half correct.

Back to pilates. Better session, the instructor left me pretty much alone unlike the last one who was always unhappy with my breathing and wanted to change exercises all the time - I like to spend a decent amount of time getting to fatigue before I move on.

Commute