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Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

In the 7 days ending Jul 5, 2009:

activity

time

miles

Running

3:56:29

25.8

(9:10)

41.52

(5:42)

295

Back, core and achilles

1:10:00

81c

Real Orienteering

49:00

4.95

(9:54)

7.96

(6:09)

160

7 /

77%

Total

5:55:29

30.75

49.48

455

7 /

90c

averages - weight:80.2kg

1:53

0:00

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Sunday Jul 5, 2009 #

Running long 1:43:30 [3] 16.0 km (6:28 / km) +200m 6:05 / km
shoes: Saucony White Thingys

Another variation of the Marne circuit with Jools. I struggled to keep up with her for the first 15 minutes till i warmed up. The slog up the range was again rewarded by a sense of joy at the unfolding scenery. It was all spoiled further along the ridge in the National Park by a group of bush carp (aka trail bikers) doing repetitions up and down the steepest slope in this section of the Park. We walked off the track to watch. Jools pulled out her camera and started taking photos. They noticed and disappeared very quickly. From this I can deduce that they know they are not where they should be. We saw the same group last Sunday as well. I think we'll be passing on some details to Parks. GX 810.

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [3]
weight:80kg

A full week of these!

Saturday Jul 4, 2009 #

Back, core and achilles (Lyell Forest North) 10:00 [1]
81c

Running warm up/down 11:45 [2] 2.25 km (5:13 / km)
shoes: Saucony White Thingys

Real Orienteering race 49:00 [4] *** 7.96 km (6:09 / km) +160m 5:36 / km
spiked:7/9c shoes: Saucony White Thingys

Straight line distance 7.0

A really challenging course set by Peter Galvin on Lyell Creek. he seems to like this area. The tracks were removed from the map, and one leg was found hard by everyone. Across a broad featureless gully, then up a shallow slope with many branching gullies. The control was on a track in one of those gullies, but that didn't help. I spiked this one, but had two errors on control 7. I went to it as my first control as a result of not reading my scrawled control number son the map. Ironically, despite navigating perfectly to it when I shouldn't have, when I repeated the leg from 6 to 7, I made an error. Probably 3/5 minutes of error in all.

C • Removal of track from maps 8

Friday Jul 3, 2009 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80.1kg

Running 25:50 [3] 5.4 km (4:47 / km)
shoes: Saucony White Thingys

Five laps of Lake Neangar, with the correct car key in hand.

Thursday Jul 2, 2009 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:80.4kg

Running warm up/down 26:36 [2] 4.72 km (5:38 / km) +30m 5:28 / km
shoes: Brookes Adreno-things

A lunchtime run cut short by sugar-babyism.

Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]

Running warm up/down 11:50 [2] 2.0 km (5:55 / km)
shoes: Saucony White Thingys

Running tempo 19:58 [4] 4.3 km (4:39 / km) +30m 4:29 / km
shoes: Saucony White Thingys

The Dodder Track. It was quite a good temperature for a serious run (once you warmed up). Didn't go flat out, but faster than a normal run. That meant i could listen to Gregori Schector's wonderful clarinet playing.

Tuesday Jun 30, 2009 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [3]
weight:80.4kg

Running 37:00 [3] 6.85 km (5:24 / km) +35m 5:16 / km
shoes: Saucony White Thingys

Easy run. Was feeling quite sore from Sunday still. It took 20 minutes to loosen up, and then felt reasonable.

Our promised rain was pretty much a fizzer. Ihad a dry lunchtime run, when I had been prepared for a run in the rain. Oh well. Amazingly we are doing better than Melbourne this year when it comes to rainfall.

Monday Jun 29, 2009 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]

Note

Really really interesting GPS records for the World Cup Long race in Norway.

http://www.gpsseuranta.net/archive/ofestivalen09/j...

In the mens race, the winner Johannson won the race for a brave route choice between 24 and 25. He ran away from the next control while the pack he was with went straight. He picked up enough time on what was a very short route choice. It shows the value of being your own decision maker and ignoring the pack. Likewise. Osterbo Oystein had good luck in being dropped by a massive pack. He ran his own race while they did the lemming thing into a massive group error between controls 21 and 22.

My faith in the capacity of even the best to make massive errors is firmly restored. Speaking of which, Hanny didn't do too well.

Do yourself a favour and watch the replay. Remember this was a chasing start race, so everyone is in the race with the same effective start time.

C • What happened to Hanny? I j... 3

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