Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Vic Long at Creswick Diggings, M45A. Again not a particularly strong physical performance - hills were a struggle - but a good technical one; didn't quite hold the line I wanted mid-leg on a couple of legs, but didn't lose more than a few seconds on any control. Moving quite smoothly in the second half after some back issues initially. Mining detail early and late with some long gully-spur legs in the middle - not a lot of route choice on those, but there was on a longish leg across Slaty Creek and its associated green on the second-last. (I went straight and didn't find it too bad, but those who went around on the road didn't lose a lot).

In some ways it was a similar scenario to last year, except that my late night was through an IOF teleconference rather than a flight halfway around the world - the field was such that I thought I would be OK as long as I didn't do anything stupid (and the DNSs of Dion and Geoff Lawford made it easier still). Ended up around 9 minutes up on Shane Doyle.

Unsurprisingly, I hit the wall pretty sharply later in the day (although fortunately not before driving back).

W21E today will take some beating for race of the year - the top four (all of whom ran in WOC) were separated by just over a minute, with Liis just edging out Tash, Krystal and Belinda.