Training Log Archive: NSW Stinger

recovery run. Legs were pretty beaten up with bruises and a big corky on my right quad, but not too tired which was good.

I had big expectations for this race, and it was cool to be excited about a race which doesn't happen so much these days. The first 4 controls were pretty good. Wasn't sure which side of the hill to go to 5 and ended up kinda going over to the right. It was a bit rough and harder hitting the control than I expected. The climb to up to 6 seemed tougher than it should have been, and that probably contributed to making a parallel error on 7 to the right and losing 40secs.
I had Dave Brownridge for company for the next few. Wasn't really that happy with my route to 10, was it quicker going around the hill to the right? I took a heavy fally coming down the hill which seemed way greener than mapped and lost concentration for a moment and when I saw a boulder on a spur I thought we were there. Turned back, but needed to keep going so lost another minute.
Again the hill up to 12 seemed really hard and I wasn't very confident with about 400m to go so had to slow down. I had my first gel after 12 because I couldn't wait til 16 for the drinks. Could see Muz out of 13 and caught and passed him at 14. Then passed Ecmo to 15. Had a 2nd gel at 16 before taking a poor bearing out of the control and heading too far right. I felt a bit hesitant for a few controls after that, nothing really seemed to flow.
The long leg to 20 seemed hard work but I was pretty happy with the line I kept. Not sure if it was quicker going right into the yellow strip. Caught Fatrat here but never passed him. I really started to struggle big time and was just trying to hang on all the way to the finish. Up the big hill to 24 I felt like I was going to have a whole body cramp. Just managed to keep going with Steveo and Fredick now in the pack. Craney came through with a few controls to go and put about 30secs into me on the last 2mins of racing. I was surprised to hear I'd only been out for 95mins as it felt much longer.
Anyway I would have liked to have had a better day physically but couldn't do much about it. The whole day seemed like a big mental battle too. Tried to remain positive and hoped I'd come good through the race but really didn't have my head concentrating on the right things. I thought the map was a pretty good challenge.
6th place and 3rd Aussie wasn't so bad.

C • Nice! 1

LONG Course 1 - Splits

Event: Australian Sprint/Long Distance Championships
 

M21E - Splits

Course 1 - Splits

Had a massage after work, boy did I need it. Then went for a short jog when I got home. Was relieved the house and boats hadn't blown away in the wind today.

Tuesday night intervals with John, Kathryn, Darrel, Liz and Nicole. In two weeks I went from being in front of Darrel to behind. I guess that's the extra 29km of racing in my legs. And hopefully yesterday's long run. Still hoping the legs can freshen up by the weekend.