Training Log Archive: markg

Club event at Woodlands. It was a hageby and I had the B loop. Quite nice open forest with a lot of dead lantana and a lot of grass seeds at this time of year unfortunately though still far fewer than at Rosenthal at Easter in 2012. The course today was a lot about compass and basic skills and I got it mostly right. My biggest miss was at #5 where I got a bit right of the line and managed to cross a little watercourse without noting it and dropped a minute or so. It was very hot today and I made a mistake in not drinking early in my first loop and by the time I lost time at #5 I was starting to feel very thirsty and my motivation was dropping. I felt like I just plodded a lot of the course afterwards.

PTE 5.0 (29 hours recovery)

Training at White Rock set by Ludvig and Annika; my first real bush orienteering since Aus champs. We did three exercises and I progressed from awful to competent by the last one. At the beginning felt very tentative in the terrain and with my map reading. Mucked up a couple of controls and generally just slow.

Overall PTE 3.4 (32 hours recovery!)

The second exercise was designed as a map memory one but we were all feeling in need of more basic skills development. I approached this one by stopping at each control to plan the entire next leg and then running it. I started to feel more confident doing this but still came unstuck on a little leg over a hill and through the rock. Partly it was because I was still trying to come to terms with Geoff's mapping of the rock.

A final course in the nice NE corner of the map. Tried to add flow in to this course and it went pretty well. Some of the small rock were a bit tricky to identify and think I may not have hit the right gully on #6 but I am pleased with how I was settling in to it.

James and I tried to the line course on the way back to the car but it was mainly through the middle of some very thick unmapped green.

Tired and hungry today.

Commute home from work. Turned it into a workout by doing 3 x (400m at 5k pace, 1km at 10k pace). Overcooked the pace a bit in the first two km and died in the last one. Managed to plod the rest of the way home with my achilles not liking the final few hills, when my calves started fatiguing.

PTE 4.6

Hill threshold intervals with a a few minutes recovery in-between. Intervals were up to the lookout, to Ch9, back to the lookout, and a final one at the bottom of the hill.

Achilles is sore again. It's not stiff and sore in the morning it's just sore going up hills. It's snuck up since the NOLs. Ice after the run seemed to help and I've been hitting the exercises too.

PTE 3.6

I've changed my way of recording intensity. I'm now using the PTE rounded to one significant figure.