Training Log Archive: R Anderson

Went in to the race thinking I could definitely be in the running to win, but was far off. It all came down to the routes, you could put in as hard an effort physically as you wanted but if you chose lousy routes then you were toast, which was easy to do. Lost 2min on my route to 1( like everyone else, nice Magnus), and bad routes on many other controls. Aside from that I made 1min mistakes on 11 and on 18. So a fairly solid race still...

Legs felt pretty good and I thought I was running fast throughout, but looking at splits afterwards gave a different story. After the COC long I was really impressed with Magnus' pace right from the start of the race. So I tried to think of this race as a long middle and went hard off the start, but I was still fairly slow it seems. Maybe I'm just not trained for these long races, or I don't have as much experience as others. It seems that the older guys are much better at the long races.

Long 8 - Splits