Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Jog-walk trip into Shipstern Rock and Cape Raoul. Lovely country on the Tasman Peninsula. Ilka will have so many opportunities for interesting running. I have observed though that with the exception of Pittwater, the local orienteering maps are a good argument for taking up MTB. Lots of green, lots of contours, precious few features. Virus in full retreat. Weather in full advance. The first fine day in the south west looks like being in a weeks time, the day we leave. One of the women in the group today is waiting for her husband to finish a Bass Strait paddle. He reached Cape Barren and has been stuck there ever since. He may be there a week judging by the forecast. We have all but given up hope for the Mt Anne circuit. Maybe we can climb Mt Field with the glacial lake circuit on Saturday. The weather may improve to "iffy". The consolation is a hope that the fagus leaves are turning colour.

Test walk in new walking "shoes" and to see if virus is retreating. Along the Pipeline Track and then up Mt Wellington to the Springs. Good news on the virus. Blisters from the recent shoe purchase. Oh well.

Off to Tassie today. We may have to wait for a break in the weather before our planned walk/climb up Mt Anne. Perhaps till Wednesday next week. Maybe the virus will have receded by then. I don't feel much like any sort of exercise at the moment.

Post-competition virus.. always better than in-competition virus. But today is the start of my pact with Nigel to get properly fit for September. Lose weight, more intensity in training.. hills, sprints. A sick day is an inauspicious start.

To cheer myself up, I'll load some more pictures. The VERY tentative aim is to get this mapped for 2011, using LIDAR if at all possible.










I'm feeling better already.

Test run of the upcoming ironman courses on part of the Devonshire Gully maps. Only a few controls needed tweaking, except on the last course which is a complex Hageby on a small area of reasonably complex mining. Ended up spending a few hours remapping quite a bit of that ground. I expect mega confusion on the day, in full spectator view. Should be fun.

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Must remember to put up some more gold mining terrain photos tomorrow.

Made even more resolutions. The most important was to not forget the other resolutions- get out of the rock whenever plausible and choose the safe route option with the strongest attack point. I probably climbed further than was optimal with my strategy, but the outcome was some tight and accurate navigation. My only two wobbles were when I joined on the end of a pack and allowed them to lead me too far right on two controls towards the end of the course. I chose to run my own race after that and spiked the remaining controls, while the pack managed to lose time and finish behind.

I think I am a day three specialist. I have been in this situation quite a few times- a disappointing first two days and managing to regain some pride on day three. Today's run was 8th, equaling my best ever Easter day result. I pulled back in aggregate to tenth for the carnival. Happy with that. On form I thought I was about 14th in the field and had decided before the carnival that 10th was the best I could hope for if the usual blundering occurred. Clearly other made worse blunders than I. There is that unrealistic voice in the back of my head saying... 6th except for those mistakes. A mistake free Easter? I'd like to see that.