Training Log: TheInvisibleLog

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.2kg (injured)

Might try a run on the weekend. Right leg feels ok now but left is playing up.

Orienteering support (Newsletter) 30 [1]

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.4kg (injured)

Both legs much improved. Now back is showing its form.
Mass is going wrong way due to more going in than coming out.

Orienteering support (Course setting) 1:20 [0]

Orienteering support (Course setting) 30 [1]

Actually collecting controls from tonights event.

Note

Street Orienteering in Bendigo pronounced dead

Progressive attendances over the past 4 weeks- 10,7,5,4
I think if we run Pseud-O events again, we'll be following the Melbourne Monday lead... imaginary controls.

C • Pseud-O 5

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.2kg (injured)

Leg pain woke me during the night!

C • Injury 8

Orienteering support (Course setting) 1:30 [3]

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:77.2kg

Note

An observation and a update.

Long runs after a Saturday event.. seems this explains feeling crappy. I think I'll be getting my long runs in by collecting controls after events and then resting (probably painting if you can call that rest) on Sundays. I have to collect next Saturday. The following Saturday I am organising the event and I suspect a long run before easter is off the agenda anyway. After Easter we have a long run of family committments, starting last week in March.
24 March control collection
1 April Control placement (wich usually means collection help afterwards)
8 April Control collection (officially Julie)
15 May Control placement (Julie) Control collection (Evan)
22 May Control placement (Evan) but probably helping collection afterwards
I expect it will be a family shared effort.

Now.. the famous photo op of me on a bike with a map. Didn't happen because Eureka didn't fulfill their side of the bargain and enter Julie on the computer before the event. A lost opportunity... thankfully.

Orienteering support (Cartography) 2:00 [0]

Did the map layout. It now really is finished. Interesting stats. It has taken 40 hours to map and draw 0.7 of a square kilometer. Hope it has been worth it.

Note
(injured)

The fallout from feeling stiff on the run yesterday. I seem to have a hamstring injury. This probably started with some damage when I slipped on wet rock at the Bryces Flat event. Thought it was past news. I was wrong.

Hoping it solves itself pretty quickly. The alternative is to spend many more hours than planned at the National Folk Festival. I suppose that would be one consolation.

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:77.4kg

Running long 1:21:36 [2] 12.65 km (6:27 / km) +80m 6:15 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

A marked contrast to the last long run. Hard work from start to finish.

Orienteering support (Newsletter) 1:30 [0]

Mainly getting coming event details sorted out.

Note

Today was really blah! The run was overly too much effort according to me body. Cut it short in response. Decided I needed some non-vegan comfort food. Purchased a bag of Smarties. They taste yuk now! What has happened?

C • Getting the taste back 3

Orienteering support (Course setting) 2:30 [0]

Checked the last of the control sites. Best reason for checking... a new bee hive in a tree hollow just where i had planned a control.

Real Orienteering race 1:01:52 [3] *** 8.75 km (7:04 / km) +220m 6:17 / km
spiked:11/15c shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

The Golden Sandshoe... a score event. This one goes down as a lesson in preparation. I spent too long on course setting so left minimal time for getting organised for the afternoon's event. I popped on a contact lens in a hurry and didn't bother to get rid of any air bubbles between the lens and myself. About 20 minutes into the race I had an inevitable close encounter with a Golden Orb spider and its web. In the flurry of post-encounter de-webbing and spider checking, I must have rubbed my eyes. The contact lens came off, folded in half and then stuck under the eye-lid. For the rest of the race I had periods of extreme shortsightedness, blurry double vision or extreme eye irritation. Needless to say the concentration on route choice wasn't the best. I found and removed (and threw away) the lens once I got back to the car and my mirror.