Training Log Archive: markg

Sprint qualifier for the season-ending Cyclones double-header sprint race. Cruised around but felt slow and like I probably didn't have another gear. On the plus side, pretty smooth except for one control where I should have read the control description but didn't and lost about 30s.

C • Lucky win 2

4 rounds of sprint match racing at Ferny Grove State School. I lined up against a young junior, Danny, then CBL and Winnie Oakhill before crashing out (literally) against Pekka. Races were short and to the point, very much like knockout O-intervals. I cruised through the first three but lost my head a bit in the fourth racing against Oliver Crosato, who seemed to have the same course, and the technique slipped away until I got caught at the 2nd last by an uncrossable fence and lost about 30s. Then I slipped taking a corner at speed and scraped some skin off my butt and a fair bit off the heel of my left hand. Good fun racing though, unforgiving of any mistakes. We should make it an annual affair.

I enjoyed yesterday's run so much I thought I would do it again. I managed to avoid most of the rain.

Run from work to school for a rendezvous with the rest of the family. The evil new backpack was not so evil today thanks to the t-shirt I was wearing to ward it off and shortened the straps, which seemed to cause it to bounce less. Used Strava to record my run which was fun.

This was my first real run in my new Mizunos and I'm pretty happy with them, I got the size right which is win.

Lunchtime run from work. Tried one of my usual routes but it has been broken by a damaged bridge over Enoggera Ck. Decided to try to push down the south bank towards Ballymore but the flat grassy bank quickly turned into a dirt trail whose coefficient of friction was rapidly trending toward zero. I bailed on this up to the road, ran through the Ballymore complex then back around the golf course.