Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLogIn the 30 days ending Nov 30, 2008:
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Sunday Nov 30, 2008 #
Course setting (Whites Ruins) 1:06:30 [2] 10.6 km (6:16 / km) +80m 6:03 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Collecting controls.
Happy with the event. For me the highlight was seeing the bright lights coming in from all directions with a minute to go. The bright lights were the fast fellows who were split by the 5 first to the control bonuses.
Happy with the event. For me the highlight was seeing the bright lights coming in from all directions with a minute to go. The bright lights were the fast fellows who were split by the 5 first to the control bonuses.
Saturday Nov 29, 2008 #
Running 1:04:30 [3] 10.4 km (6:12 / km) +100m 5:55 / km
weight:79.4kg shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Putting out controls for tonight's twilight event. Still 6 to place as we get closer to start time.
Thursday Nov 27, 2008 #
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80kg
Running 37:50 [3] 7.05 km (5:22 / km) +45m 5:12 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
When the cold shower isn't long enough or cold enough, you know its time to start running in the mornings. Morning running has several advantages. Longer runs are possible. Obviously its cooler than at lunchtime. Why put the decision off then? Well, the one obvious disadvantage.. GETTING UP EARLIER!!!!!!
Tuesday Nov 25, 2008 #
Running hills 33:15 [3] 6.0 km (5:33 / km) +160m 4:53 / km
ahr:132 max:147 weight:79.2kg shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Welsford Hill Circuit, continuing the thought that if its gunna be unenjoyable, it might as well be memorably unenjoyable. Too hot for hills really.
Monday Nov 24, 2008 #
Running 29:41 [3] 5.66 km (5:15 / km) +55m 5:00 / km
max:150 weight:78.6kg shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Why is it running always seems to be painful these days? Decided if I was going to suffer, I might as well make it worthwhile, so ran the second half of teh run quite hard. Things looked up then. Maybe the pain of effort blocked out the backgraound body gripes. Or maybe finishing the run felt so much better.
Sunday Nov 23, 2008 #
Running 1:00:00 [3] 9.8 km (6:07 / km) +115m 5:47 / km
ahr:130 shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Tested the achilles problems with a slightly longer run. Returned through the subdivisions again. The signs selling new blocks show smiling couples with young children. Helps one feel old!
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80kg
Back to the exercises after a slack week. Really have to become more dedicated.
MTB (Not O) 1:01:00 [2]
Took the bike out to check control sites and map changes for next weekend... the 1hr twilight event. Quite a few new tracks. I think the course will be a challenge for the elite pack in two way. For a start, its 13k for all controls. That should be a reasonable challenge. Second, I am thinking of having a few bonus controls... about 5 scattered around the start location. First to each control will get double points or similar. Assuming a pack like last weekends twilight, that should provide a conumdrum for those relying on pack navigation.
Note
Map updated. Course designed. Points allocated. Even the elite types will be out in the dark. And with the bonus points for the five closest controls, They will take different routes out, so won't be able to get in a train on the run back in in the dark. I feel happy with the course. Be there Jymbo, Toph etc
Saturday Nov 22, 2008 #
Running 35:00 [2] 6.0 km (5:50 / km) +50m 5:36 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Desultory run checking out the new subdivisions in Maiden Gully. The news is good and bad. Patches of bushland within the town are disappearing, but the Myers Creek track will be extended. Most bemused to see subdivision pegs laid out along a stretch of land near the creek that went under water late last year. A couple of existing homes were flooded, but more are going in. Developers using VCAT to intimidate council?
Thursday Nov 20, 2008 #
Running 30:29 [3] 5.8 km (5:15 / km) +45m 5:04 / km
ahr:128 shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Can't remember where I did this run, but its on the Garmin, so I must have done it., Must have been exciting.
Tuesday Nov 18, 2008 #
MTB (Not O) 45:00 [2]
MTB (Not O) 50:00 [3]
Rode home from work via Bendigo. Met Jools at the bike shop. She had her brand new Cannondale. I went close to max HR trying to keep up on the way home. Not a fair contest!
Monday Nov 17, 2008 #
Running 40:39 [3] 7.0 km (5:48 / km) +50m 5:36 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Sunday Nov 16, 2008 #
Note
(rest day)
No run today. Sore achilles from the longer than usual run.
MTB (Not O) 1:04:00 [3]
Rode into town with Jools, watched a film and rode home via supermarket. Unpleasant experience in queue at supermarket.
Saturday Nov 15, 2008 #
Real Orienteering race (Smiths Reef) 2:31:15 [3] *** 16.9 km (8:57 / km) +405m 8:00 / km
ahr:129 max:220 spiked:23/26c shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Night orienteering on Smiths Reef. Two stories behind the HR and navigation stats of the run and they sum up the night. Mistakes on three controls, but only one of these was a major error. The others were minor and excuseable in night orienteering.
The major error was when I was passed by the Bendigo train... a stream of lights with Bryan, Toph, Dave and Jymbo. I tried to keep up, and while doing so wondered why they were passing me this late after the start. The obvious then downed on me. I had stuffed up my choice of controls to leave the start. Reason... I forgot to think after being handed the wrong map. On turning it over there were only five contols instead of the promised 30. Took a few moments to recover and realise that I had been given the radio orienteering master map. Had to chase down a replacement and left the start almost two minutes late... coincidentally the time I was late back in. Oh well. During the process I stopped thinking and made a bad starting choice. So the train passed me 20 minutes into the race. I was heading for an isolated high poiint control in teh north. Thought I might be able to hang on till the control. I couldn't, but did manage to lose track of my position and took three minutes to find myself. Trying to hang onto the pack didn't record my max HR for the night though... that was in the last 5 minutes.
By bad choice of start controls, I was left with the need to backtrack near the end of the race for the last 35 pointer. I realised I would be late if I went there, but calculated I might be only 1 minute late and would thus still make a 25 point profit. Turned out I was 1.15 late, but the last fe minutes were spent in as much of a sprint as I could muster trying to keep the lateness to a minute. Maxed the heart rate at that point, which is always going to hurt after two and a half hours. Also lost my crucial right contact lense leaving me quite short sighted. Forgot I had emergency glasses in the bottom of the pack, but probably would have lost time trying to find them anyway.
Missed four controls yet travelled further than the winning pack who checked the whole 30. And I'm a little sore this morning.
The major error was when I was passed by the Bendigo train... a stream of lights with Bryan, Toph, Dave and Jymbo. I tried to keep up, and while doing so wondered why they were passing me this late after the start. The obvious then downed on me. I had stuffed up my choice of controls to leave the start. Reason... I forgot to think after being handed the wrong map. On turning it over there were only five contols instead of the promised 30. Took a few moments to recover and realise that I had been given the radio orienteering master map. Had to chase down a replacement and left the start almost two minutes late... coincidentally the time I was late back in. Oh well. During the process I stopped thinking and made a bad starting choice. So the train passed me 20 minutes into the race. I was heading for an isolated high poiint control in teh north. Thought I might be able to hang on till the control. I couldn't, but did manage to lose track of my position and took three minutes to find myself. Trying to hang onto the pack didn't record my max HR for the night though... that was in the last 5 minutes.
By bad choice of start controls, I was left with the need to backtrack near the end of the race for the last 35 pointer. I realised I would be late if I went there, but calculated I might be only 1 minute late and would thus still make a 25 point profit. Turned out I was 1.15 late, but the last fe minutes were spent in as much of a sprint as I could muster trying to keep the lateness to a minute. Maxed the heart rate at that point, which is always going to hurt after two and a half hours. Also lost my crucial right contact lense leaving me quite short sighted. Forgot I had emergency glasses in the bottom of the pack, but probably would have lost time trying to find them anyway.
Missed four controls yet travelled further than the winning pack who checked the whole 30. And I'm a little sore this morning.
C • Sore 4
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80.4kg
Friday Nov 14, 2008 #
Note
(rest day)
No time for anything today, unless I do a Blair and run at 5.00am. Well, I'm not that committed.
Thursday Nov 13, 2008 #
Running 35:00 [3] 5.9 km (5:56 / km) +60m 5:39 / km
weight:79.8kg shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Despite arriving back late from Stawell, I still woke at the normal hour. Decided I might as well run. The weather at 7.00am was a taste of summer to come. The sky looked very stormy to the west, but nothing came of it. The run... mediocre. I struggled around and in the end cut short what I had intended to complete. Some days the body is just not interested. I have to admit its a lot easier getting on a bike in the morning.
Wednesday Nov 12, 2008 #
MTB (Not O) 25:00 [2]
weight:79.8kg
Tuesday Nov 11, 2008 #
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80.4kg
Running 1:45:00 [2] 10.9 km (9:38 / km)
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Setting out and colllecting controls. Ran an event on Golden Gully for a work group. None had orienteered before. I set 21 controls, 7 easy, 7 moderate (hard but near the easy controls)and 7 hard controls. I mean hard. Golden Gully hard. It took me 60 minutes to put out the controls and 42 minutes to collect them. The full circuit by most effective route was 4.7 kilometres. I thought I may have over-catered, suspecting no-one would come near the full card. One pair of young men spent the maximum 55 minutes on the course and visited all but two controls. Given a full hour they would have got them all. That to me was a very impressive achievement for novices. They expressed surprise at what orienteering actually is, as compared to whgat they thought it was. The group all expected to be given compasses and then to do bearing work. I solved the misconception by banning compasses. That seemed to work.
I was to tired afterwards to get to tonights club meeting. I collected the last control just as the meeting was scheduled to start. I had some errands to do before the meeting, such as picking up a car parked outside our mechanics shed, and shopping for dinner. A meeting 25 minutes from home was not going to get up. I don't miss many.
I was to tired afterwards to get to tonights club meeting. I collected the last control just as the meeting was scheduled to start. I had some errands to do before the meeting, such as picking up a car parked outside our mechanics shed, and shopping for dinner. A meeting 25 minutes from home was not going to get up. I don't miss many.
Monday Nov 10, 2008 #
MTB (Not O) 18:16 [3]
An unavoidable ride this morning to cope with dropping off a sick car at the mechanic.
Sunday Nov 9, 2008 #
Running long 2:06:00 [2] 19.0 km (6:38 / km) +140m 6:24 / km
weight:80.4kg shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
GPS logging of new and old tracks on the gradually expanding Stumpy Gully map. An extension of Browns Reef.
A good illustration of the term 'Sunday soils'. It rained Friday. Yesterday running on tracks was gentle on the joints with the surface showing some give under impact. Today, there is give in the gully's but its hard again elsewhere. I wouldn't run 19 kilometres tomorrow. Knees and feet would complain.
A good illustration of the term 'Sunday soils'. It rained Friday. Yesterday running on tracks was gentle on the joints with the surface showing some give under impact. Today, there is give in the gully's but its hard again elsewhere. I wouldn't run 19 kilometres tomorrow. Knees and feet would complain.
Saturday Nov 8, 2008 #
Running 1:07:00 [3] 11.85 km (5:39 / km) +100m 5:26 / km
weight:80.4kg shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Very pleasant running whilst GPS logging the new constructed tracks around Crusoe and No. 7 Reservoir. After rain, they are really good on the joints. A great running surface for Bendigo!
Out now to map Stumpy Gully for next years Oz Champs Carnival.
Out now to map Stumpy Gully for next years Oz Champs Carnival.
Friday Nov 7, 2008 #
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.8kg
Finally expungd the excesses of last weekend wedding repast.
Running 47:55 [3] 8.49 km (5:39 / km) +75m 5:24 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Our own dumb abd dumber squad located. A car has been dumped in the bush. Number plates have been removed to obscure identity and gain any refund. But they forgot to remove the rego sticker!
Note
Terrain ain't the same.
Two pieces of news on the terrain front.
The less important was about an area in bendigo that would have made an excellent sprint map. Areas of mining detail and a relatively large area with a good trackwork through thick scrub. That is until the controlled burn went through earlier this week.
More interestingly, the private land adjacent to Mount Korong was on our mapping list. We had the photogrammetry already and had mapped a small part of it for the Oz Middle Champs a few years ago. It has been purchased by a carbon credit trading company who have sown down the open land with direct seeded native veg. Implication... no parking for next years Vic Middle Champs. I am informed that once the trees start growing, the land will be sold in individual lots with a caveat protecting the vegetation. The only feasible use is rural living, probably of a land for wildlife bent. It doesn't bode well for our future use of the area. From what I know of the wool industry and its demographics, this is just the start.
Two pieces of news on the terrain front.
The less important was about an area in bendigo that would have made an excellent sprint map. Areas of mining detail and a relatively large area with a good trackwork through thick scrub. That is until the controlled burn went through earlier this week.
More interestingly, the private land adjacent to Mount Korong was on our mapping list. We had the photogrammetry already and had mapped a small part of it for the Oz Middle Champs a few years ago. It has been purchased by a carbon credit trading company who have sown down the open land with direct seeded native veg. Implication... no parking for next years Vic Middle Champs. I am informed that once the trees start growing, the land will be sold in individual lots with a caveat protecting the vegetation. The only feasible use is rural living, probably of a land for wildlife bent. It doesn't bode well for our future use of the area. From what I know of the wool industry and its demographics, this is just the start.
Thursday Nov 6, 2008 #
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:79.6kg
Wednesday Nov 5, 2008 #
Running 29:00 [3] 5.2 km (5:35 / km) +45m 5:21 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Tuesday Nov 4, 2008 #
Running 43:40 [3] 7.74 km (5:39 / km) +80m 5:22 / km
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
Note
Loved this new twist on the personal GPS system. Look closely in the mid left of the garment. Or should I say Garmint? Can you download from this gadget to SportTracks? And what would the sport be?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-...
Monday Nov 3, 2008 #
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80.6kg
The damage from two days of car travel and one all day wedding party.
Running 45:00 [3] 7.7 km (5:51 / km) +100m 5:29 / km
ahr:130 max:155 shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
A pleasant run on the softer ground after our 1mm downpour yesterday...
We wait in hope fopr Friday.
We wait in hope fopr Friday.
Note
(rest day)
Not really a rest day. More like music day. No time to run. Given the weekend coming up, this was probably unfortunate.
Sunday Nov 2, 2008 #
Note
(rest day)
If you call rest a an 11 hour car trip.
Saturday Nov 1, 2008 #
Running 45:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks somethingorothers
A run around the foreshore of Tuross Head. Yep, a long drive for a short run.
Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]