Training Log Archive: Bomb

mtb ride at in wombat forest at woodend. cool track, not scary like you yangs, but heaps of fun and hard to ride fast.

ride at you yangs with lee and andy, and dan and ash. great trails! so much fun. thought I was going to die a couple of times on one of the downhill tracks.

middle race on a sprint map at ballarat uni. really fun race, but made a couple of dumb mistakes. turned up the wrong road on the first long leg (brain obviously severely oxygen deprived), and ignored a control that was on the wrong feature that was actually mine (on a tree, marked as thicket). probably lost about 90secs all up with those.
going slow, but happy to have been able to run 5 days in a row. bit of an achievement for me at the moment. hopefully things are on the mend and this stupid hip injury doesn't write off 2009 as well.

st georges lake. run was pretty similar to yesterday - very limited by stuffed feet. nice course though, and more mining stuff than I expected, so all good.

creswick diggings. love this map, but couldn't run fast today. blisters very sore - I think they might be a bit infected, yuck!!
cruised around as well as I could - really not motivated to hurt my feet too much.

fun race at mt tarengower. nearly missed my start - had stuffed around dropping Dan and Ash in Daylesford so ended up a bit too late, then got caught behind some slow traffic and ended up arriving 7 mins before my start. the first few controls were a bit rushed, and made mistakes on 2 and 5 (going way too high). then got passed by tooms and brucey and tried to stay on that train for as long as possible. so last part of the course was good, but I'd lost too much time by then. feet pretty sore.

warm down only

rode from creswick to ballarat on the goldfields trail with Dan.

Event: XMAS 5 Days
 

Day 1 of xmas 5days at sailors creek. took a few controls to remember how to do the whole O thing, but got going eventually. some typical sailors creek slogs up green hills, and some wild erosion gully crossings, but then the last loop in the mining was great.
hot day and had some pretty huge blisters that were making it pretty hard to run by the end. first of the girls and scored some very yummy bickies.

morning lap of stromlo before driving to vic.