Run intervals 46:00 [3] * 8.7 km (5:17 / km)
spiked:22/23c
An example of the sort of run I hope to leave behind me in 2013. The plan was to do the Royal Park street-O alternating hard/easy legs, but in fact I was feeling so sluggish that there didn't seem to be a lot of difference between the hard legs and the easy ones. A Q+A format rather than punches, which meant the opportunity to "get" a few controls from distance (had I felt so inclined I could have got 16 from 200 metres away, but thought cutting that off was a bit too blatant); breaks up the rhythm a bit writing the answers down (not that there was much rhythm to be had tonight). Perhaps a bit better in the later stages, but that's not saying a lot.
This was a fairly forgettable year for my orienteering, with a back/glutes/hip/hamstring/other random body parts injury troubling me for much of the year (still with me, but not surfacing as often as it was a couple of months ago); only this month, easily my longest of the year, has training got back to a level that I'd consider reasonably normal (and then only for volume, not for speed). Best result was the Oceania middle win in M40, but while I ran a good technical race on a technical area, it was a result which said more about my opposition; probably the runs I was happiest with were in Tasmania in May and at Narrinyeri (SA) in June, although in both cases there was no effective opposition so it was hard to judge. Best training run was clearly the long run from Warwick at the end of June, although a couple in the last week have threatened to get into at least the same ballpark, and there was also a gorgeous half-hour on a random Monday night in May.