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Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

In the 30 days ending Sep 30, 2012:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Walking	4	15:18:00	23.01	(39:54)	37.03	(24:47)	1510
Running	9	9:03:20	45.64	(11:54)	73.45	(7:24)	995
Real Orienteering	2	2:30:00	9.32	(16:06)	15.0	(10:00)	385	12 /	12c	100%
MTB (Not O)	6	2:17:45
Back, core and achilles	1	10:00
Course setting	1	10
Total	23	29:19:15	77.97		125.48		2890	12 /	12c	100%

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Sunday Sep 30, 2012 #

8 AM

Running 1:50:00 [3] 9.0 km (12:13 / km) +350m 10:14 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Rose Gap to Beehive Falls running) up the track (towards Briggs Bluff), run along the flat shelf, turned back as music called and it was cold. Detoured to one of the upper falls on an unofficial track. Then back to Roses Gap.

Saturday Sep 29, 2012 #

Running 1:30:00 [3] 7.0 km (12:51 / km) +250m 10:55 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Roses Gap to Barrigar Falls, then bush bashed to next falls up and finally up the network of rock outcrops to point 426

Thursday Sep 27, 2012 #

12 PM

Running 41:15 [3] 6.5 km (6:21 / km) +70m 6:01 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Welsford Hill extended. First taste of summer. Perhaps an early taste of ageing as well. First problem was twisting my left ankle. After waiting 5 minutes for a recovery, I slogged on, only to later stumble into a face plant, donating skin from hands and elbows to the path. Maybe its time to wear light MTB gloves while running.

C • stumble 5

Wednesday Sep 26, 2012 #

1 PM

Running hills 22:00 [3] 6.0 km (3:40 / km) +100m 3:23 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Five ascents of Lily. Easing back into hills.

Running warm up/down 6:00 [3] 0.6 km (10:00 / km) +15m 8:53 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Tuesday Sep 25, 2012 #

1 PM

Running 39:00 [2] 6.8 km (5:44 / km) +25m 5:38 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Epsom Creek. Getting back into the running habit is hard, but the pleasant conditions helped.

Monday Sep 24, 2012 #

MTB (Not O) 37:45 [3]

Commute home the long way, getting a greater percentage of the trip on bike paths or single track.

7 AM

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]

8 AM

MTB (Not O) 20:00 [2]

Sunday Sep 23, 2012 #

10 AM

Running long 1:46:00 [3] 16.15 km (6:34 / km) +50m 6:28 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Time to get back into exercise. Julie suggested a 16 k run. Mmm. Along the channel from Sandhurst Reservoir.

Sunday Sep 16, 2012 #

10 AM

Real Orienteering race (Kangaroo Crossing) 1:20:00 [3] **** 6.5 km (12:18 / km) +285m 10:06 / km
spiked:12/12c shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Long race on Kangaroo Crossing. A relief after the controlling job the day before.
This was an ADVENTURE. Great fun.
Took it easy and kept in contact the whole way. No errors!. But I couldn't log this achievement till a week later, as Julie had the opposite experience and I couldn't be seen to skite. Still, despite the mistakes, I was a long way off the pace. Not fit and very conservative. I made on route choice error that cost me six or seven minutes, So concentrate don the fine nav I forgot the big picture.

Thursday Sep 13, 2012 #

Note

Sea of red on AP at the moment with injuries a plenty. None as impressive as Evans though. He is weighed down by the inability to do anything whilst surrounded by good orienteering terrain in Sweden.

Wednesday Sep 12, 2012 #

8 AM

Running 49:45 [2] 7.9 km (6:18 / km) +45m 6:07 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Commute to work. The last 15 minutes felt really hard. Even though it was slow slow slow.

5 PM

MTB (Not O) 20:00 [2]

Commute home before rain.

Tuesday Sep 11, 2012 #

8 AM

MTB (Not O) 20:00 [2]

6 PM

Running 48:20 [3] 7.9 km (6:07 / km) +45m 5:57 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Commute home with a pack on my back. A bit like rogaine training.

Monday Sep 10, 2012 #

8 AM

MTB (Not O) 20:00 [3]

5 PM

MTB (Not O) 20:00 [3]

6 PM

Running 31:00 [3] 5.6 km (5:32 / km) +45m 5:19 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Sunday Sep 9, 2012 #

Note

Three hours on results, three hours mapping.

Saturday Sep 8, 2012 #

Note

Spent the day organising the Ironman, and learnt a few more lessons about what not to do. The result of one of these lessons is that the evening was spent rebuilding a useable results file. I thought I had my briefing covering all eventualities, but i was wrong. I think the main lesson is that this event is too much for one person to run.

C • who is the Ironman? 2

C • too much for one person 5

Course setting (Rocky Rises) 10 [1]

Friday Sep 7, 2012 #

Note

Morn - drive back from Grampians.
Arvo - three hours placing controls for Ironman.
Evening (and early next morn) trying to create a handicap system for the Ironman. Why do I do this?

Thursday Sep 6, 2012 #

Walking 4:25:00 [2] 12.6 km (21:02 / km) +500m 17:33 / km

Up the Wonderland by a legally open trail. Along the top and then down a long closed 'trail'. It ended up being a descent via a recent landslide as the easy option.
Lowlight was succumbing to the tourist trap nerve test.

From Wonderland Range Walk

Tuesday Sep 4, 2012 #

Walking 5:00:00 [2] 11.3 km (26:33 / km) +610m 20:54 / km

Major Mitchell Plateau and return. A closed track (as most seem to be in the Grampians. Its a tough walk, but no tougher for the floods and storms that justify the track closure.

From Major Mitchell Plateau

11 AM

Walking 4:00:00 [2] 6.4 km (37:30 / km) +100m 34:47 / km

Billywing gorge. Doesn't look far in the log. But the recorded speed is no sign of slackness. Billywing Gorge has been on our tick list for 30 years, so what better day than on our 30th anniversary. This was consolation for not trying another winter attempt on Bogong via Staircase. A worthy substitute. This is one of the secret gems of the Grampians. No tracks. Just follow thegorge as best you can.

From Billywing Gorge

Sunday Sep 2, 2012 #

Walking 1:53:00 [3] 6.73 km (16:47 / km) +300m 13:44 / km

Halls Gap to Grand Canyon and return via the closed track. Most of our walks during the week were closed tracks, but this was the only one where there were obvious reasons for the closure. Two massive landslide made progress challenging.

From Wonderland Range Walk

Saturday Sep 1, 2012 #

Real Orienteering (Smiths Reef) 1:10:00 [3] 8.5 km (8:14 / km) +100m 7:47 / km
shoes: ASICS GT-2700

Mind not in gear. Worst noodle in years. Went off map. Took ages to realise this error. Didn't finish event. (Well, I did, but not in a hurry and didn't record a time). Then had to collect controls.

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