Training Log Archive: markg

Relay training and a club event at Bright View. The relay training was fun: effectively 2 short, mass-start sprint races in terrain. Generally pretty straightforward, follow your compass stuff but there were a few oops moments. Racing was mainly against James, Kurt and Simeon. Kurt is probably still shattered from the ultra long last weekend.

After the relay training, James, Simeon and I raced head-to-head on the longest, 5.9km, course. It was a pretty solid effort from everybody and certainly a lung-buster. James sneakily jumped the start and then gained some time at #2 because he'd misplaced it earlier in the day so knew where it was! Then came a painful climb through the next few controls, put to the sword by the youngsters, and barely holding on. Simeon dropped off coming into #6 and I didn't really see him again but James and I were pretty much head and head through the rest of it pushing each pretty well.

Finished the day with another climb to pull in a few controls.

Got up before 5am to head out to Kholo Hills and run a course form the Cyclones run event there a few weeks ago. My beautiful son messed up my plans by waking up when I did and in my efforts to creep silently around the house so he would return to the land of nod without waking Megan and ruining everyone's day I got going late and only got to do about 1/3 of the course.

Orienteered okay but was lacking a bit in confidence and not visualising well. And geez it was steep! Also I was a bit alarmed by the big sign on the fence warning of wild dogs and the smaller one inside warning people to keep out because of the dog traps ...

Sprint intervals at UQ. A bit of a debacle but Elliot and Heather got some value from it so that's good.

I don't like doing training or running courses I've set myself. I just can't get myself in the right state of mind to orienteer properly once I've seen the course.