Training Log Archive: Tim C

Part of the way to the start.

Big 5 day 2- Nooitgedacht East.

Pretty poor again..

#1-#4 pretty good
#5 big stuff up.. Saw Brad (3min) on his way to #6 and realised I'd caught a decent amount on him, then got pulled off by the higher set of rocks and just took forever to realise my mistake (3:30 lost).
#6 left the road slightly late and ended up 1 boulder cluster further along (45secs)
#7 too far right (5secs)
#8 okay, but should've gone straight.
#9 another stuff up.. A bit low and overshot and ended up at the further boulder+ had to go back (1:30). Got to the control just after Colm (+3min)
#10 following Colm- so good.
#11 okay
#12 wanted to avoid climb, but ended up going too far right (30secs)
#13,14,15 okay (pushing a bit to get away from the Moran)
#16 running nicely along the line, but ran straight past+ had to come back a bit (15secs)
#17 okay
#18 okay, but think straight was quicker
#19 headed off too far right (30secs)
#20+21 okay (just dying a bit on the climb)
#22 too far right again (misreading the green)- 15secs

Close to 8min lost. Which in this type of area is rather poor. Gonna have to pick up my game for the next 3days to make sure of the Irish whitewash. #2-0

Some control collecting at Nooitgedacht+ then at battery creek afterwards.

M21E - Splits

Event: Big5 O Week 2015-2016
 

Big5 day 1- Rockery.

Not great, but not terrible either. Lots of smallish mistakes + a couple of not so small ones.

#1 overshot (forgetting its 1:5000), must've run just next to it though+ ended up at #3 (1min)
#2+3 okay
#4 too far left+ went a bit past and to the edge of the valley (25secs)
#5 had planned on taking the path round the right, but went too far+ ended up crossing in some really crappy green stuff (got stuck in some neck high brambles..) (1min)
#6 okay
#7 was exactly where I wanted to be, but must have passed about 5m from it and carried on up to the higher re-entrant and then eventually ended up at #12 (1min)
#8 not keeping in contact with the map coming out of 7 and was a bit confused as to which path I was actually on, missed the controls by a few metres again+ went back to the path+ eventually found it (2:30)
#9-#16 okay
#17 passed just to the right of it+carried on before realising (30secs)
#18 came round the left+ struggled to find it (15secs)
#19 just being lazy.. Came out of 18 and saw a control in the distnace and assumed it was mine, so stopped navigating.. (45secs)
#20-#25 okay,just a couple non-optimal routes (30secs).

So nearly 9min of mistakes.. Which is actually pretty terrible.. Ended up 7min back on Hector Haines and 4min on Brad. At least we destroyed the Irish though.

M21E - Splits

Lowveld Botanical Gardens. Put some 'controls' out on the medium course for the polokwane guys+ then walked arounf with one of them.

Ran the Long from yesterdays warm-up event. Had to go under 17:33 to beat Sabine Hauswiths time. Reasonably easy in the end (I did however have the advantage of not having to punch controls+knowing the area a bit better).

Battery Creek. Put out the controls for the training. Such nice+runnable forest!!! :D

Also did a bit around town checking the other control sites.

Nice sunset run around the neighborhood. Van riebeck, leslie, westway, back.

Easy pace besides for the middle km (3:56), just testing if the legs work.

Short night run in Fernwood to get the 3km in. Been storming most of the afternoon, so didn't get out for a longer one.

Ran into a herd of Zebra and gave them a bit of a fright (and myself..)

C • Sooo.... 3

Up Sterkhorn via sphinx+blindmans. Don't think I actually made it to the top (just went to the crosses) Stijn?

Pretty hot out, so just taking it nice and easy.

Up to blindmans: 56min
Blindmans-sterkhorn: 59min

C • Sterkhorn 2

Walking around the top trying to find a route up the other peak, but couldn't find anything that I was completely comfortable climbing up (well more so worried that I wouldn't get down again).

Back down sterkhorn and then down keartlands and to a small pool near the entrance for a swim. Seriously hot down in the valley!! (37 or so)

Appreciating how fast Johardt van Heerdens sterkhorn FKT is! About 2:56min for me today (I was going rather slow, but still don't think I could go much quicker than 2:30), which is still 12min slower than his time.

6030/8850 (gonna extent it until Saturday- not going to get all the way therean but hopefully to at least 7000m)