Training Log Archive: markg

NOL Long at Chinaman's Flat. It's a pity I wasn't fit and racing higher up the field but this was another fun race. In the spirit of this weekend, I approached this as training and was planning to pull out after a loop or two. As it turned out, the achilles, feeling none the worse for wear after the first two races, held in there and I kept being drawn to the challenge of the next set of technical controls until eventually I decided I may as well do the whole thing. Technically this was probably my best race of the weekend, I spent a lot of the course on my own and made only a couple of significant mistakes, maybe a couple of minutes worth but largely I executed the technical stuff pretty well and my control flow felt ok.

Long Distance ME 4 - Splits

NOL Sprint at the Uni of Ballarat. Aim, as for the whole weekend, was to be smooth, practise good flow, and technique and not aggravate my achilles. So I took this one at a steady pace which made the nav rather easy though I still managed to make two suboptimal route choices and had one small concentration failure - I would guess about 20s lost all up.

NOL Middle distance at Specimen Hill. This was fun and I was generally pretty pleased with my race although I made a number of small errors, mostly 10-15s ones in the circle. Lessons learnt were: 1) Need to take care running on compass, and 2) Need to ensure I've had a good read of the control circle in gold-mining because getting into the circle isn't enough. I also confirmed that my fitness is terrible.

M Open Elite - Splits

Middle DistanceM Open Elite - Splits