Training Log Archive: Rowan

Last race in the series, calculated we couldn't pass Tim so took it easy.
Got 2nd overall so happy with that

Got some sort of food poisoning

Event: 2010 Australian Rogaining Championships
 

Aussie Champs with Tim
Won U23 and 6th open so pretty happy considering the night wasn't very good at all. Very hard terrain and nowhere nice to be at night.

The family rogaine with Sam, Andy and Tim who no other family seemed to want. Cleaned the course and then got to watch the thunder from inside the car

Just taking it easy today, might go for a swim tomorrow

Very messy start and took a long time to get clean space to run in, took it reasonably easy until 2k from the finish when opened up the tank a bit more.

Then went back and helped push Donald who was in a wheelchair, most of it at a fast walk until we realised we could go sub 2hrs... and made it!!!!!

Nice easy run around the streets, legs felt a bit flat so good to do some running again

Am exhausted from lack of sleep and too much work so will be sleeping more and working less for the next week

Didn't feel good physically or mentally... couldn't really be bothered doing it and then went accordingly.

Oh well, maybe I just need some time off to recover before Aus and then NZ's and get more sleep

Ran around the lovely tracks that are to the south of kennedy's bush like where we rogained. Saw some big native pigeon and quite a few bellbirds. Got real dehydrated so stopped off at Mr Juris' place so refluid the body.

Tracks from Living Springs to Goveners Bay are real confusing so spent a fair bit of time working out where to go and also lost about 5-10min eating blackberries

Wasn't really planning on doing this but the car died at work so ran home to get the other one, calves are still pretty tight so will have to massage them out

The second race in the series, felt a lot better out there and went pretty hard. Our early trip to 35 ment we got stuck in traffic and lost a bit of time rock climbing up to 22. From then on it went pretty sweet, threw 21 and 11and then the 36, 27, 31 loop in favour of going down to the southern corner of the map. Timed it pretty well and think we picked up the win so stoked with the maiden rogaine win of my blossoming career.

Got 2050

Ran over the hill to Lyttelton, legs were heavy and didn't feel that flash

What a day that was...
After a causal start at 7.10 we made our way to the head of Lake Lyndon. When ready we took the curling ridge up to the summit before traversing the length to Red Hill in 2.30hrs. This was the last of our fast progress as we descended towards the stream below.
We did an awesome scree run before hitting the scrub and getting stuck for a while in Roel's Forest. Eventually we made it out and down the track past the tank to the road.
With a choice between taking a track with 2km extra or going around a swamp, we chose badly by taking the swamp and lost a lot of time. However, Joel's extra height enabled him to spot a track through the scrub and down to the river so after a bit of backtrack we made it across and towards the second big climb of the day.
This was where I had a low point on the climb as it took a long time and the sun was well and truly out. Upon making the first summit, we attempted to eat a Summit Bar but were unable to do so (those things are disgusting) and Joel found a walking pole. Continuing along the ridge we went over Benmore and further along to the highest point where the ceram eggs went down a treat. We then went down the next ridge where the fine weather that we had been enjoying all day stopped and the cloud rolled in. This made the experience of navigating down to Rabbit Saddle more fun but we made it none the less. I then discovered a hunting jacket on the saddle and carried it out, sadly this jacket was both named and smelt badly of dog so it shall be returned to its rightful owner. With only Rabbit Hill as our final obstacle we ascended it and took another ridge back down to the road in 15-20m visibility. With a quick walk to stretch the legs, we were soon jogging back to the head of Lyndon and the car ride back to town.

All in all, it was a great day in the mountains and we had a lot of laughs along the way.

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Rode the Mcleans Island loop with Piet, took it fairly causally as he was on a small bike

Rode a second lap going harder, had no back brake so that was a bit of a nuisance but otherwise am please with the time

First of the series, went pretty well though made a few mistakes and finished with 10min to go dropping 50 points in the process.

My calculations give a score of 1790