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Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

In the 7 days ending Feb 14, 2010:

activity

time

miles

Running

3:03:51

18.95

(9:42)

30.49

(6:02)

525

Real Orienteering

1:09:49

6.42

(10:52)

10.34

(6:45)

220

35 /

38c

92%

Back, core and achilles

50:00

Orienteering support

13:50

Total

5:17:30

25.37

40.83

745

35 /

38c

92%

[1-5]

5:05:15

averages - weight:78.4kg

1:15

0:00

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Sunday Feb 14, 2010 #

Running warm up/down 8:00 [2] 1.5 km (5:20 / km) +20m 5:00 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Orienteering support (Mapping) 4:00 [0]

Orienteering support (Results) 30 [0]

Note

Interesting. Just under 14 hours of orienteering admin and support work for the. Its Valentines Day. I think I should be elsewhere.

8 AM

Real Orienteering race (Diamond Hill) 48:07 [4] *** 7.0 km (6:52 / km) +165m 6:09 / km
spiked:21/22c shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Had a great run, spiking 21 of 22 controls and keeping a consistent pace. Maybe the summer training is actually working. The one control I didn't spike is a salutary tale. It was the first control on the second loop of the hagaby. I made a thumbing error confusing the start triangle and the first control, thus running from the triangle to control 2. Didn't even notice there was a control 1. It was up the gully I was in less than 200 metres away. DNF. I made a similar mistake on the Kooyoora hagaby last year.I think there is a lesson to learn.

Saturday Feb 13, 2010 #

Event: BendiGo ToDay

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.8kg

Orienteering support (Newsletter) 7:00 [0]

Running warm up/down 7:39 [2] 1.36 km (5:37 / km) +10m 5:26 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Real Orienteering race (Diamond Hill) 21:42 [3] **** 3.34 km (6:30 / km) +55m 6:00 / km
spiked:14/16c shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Only missed two controls by about 5 metres. In a sprint I suppose that matters. Made two poor route choices as well. Probably could find 45 seconds to gain from better navigation. Major error was choosing B course rather than A course. Orienteering this much fun can't be good for you.

C • distance 2

Orienteering support (Results) 45 [0]

Friday Feb 12, 2010 #

Orienteering support (Mapping) 50 [3]

6 AM

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.4kg

7 AM

Running warm up/down 25:40 [2] 4.0 km (6:25 / km) +35m 6:09 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Run in and back out from hill.

Running hills 22:14 [4] 2.65 km (8:23 / km) +300m 5:21 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Three reps of the Crusoe Hill. Was planning for four, but realised I had run out of time. Wasn't really sorry about that. By the end of the third my body was complaining.

C • which hill 4

Running 17:15 [2] 2.65 km (6:31 / km)
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Back down the hill three times.

Thursday Feb 11, 2010 #

6 AM

Running 36:35 [2] 6.0 km (6:06 / km) +45m 5:53 / km
weight:78.8kg shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Headtorch conditions.

Wednesday Feb 10, 2010 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.4kg

6 PM

Running 25:00 [3] 4.6 km (5:26 / km) +40m 5:13 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

A run in three parts. In the end I gave up trying to get out between the lightning events. Lots of ground strikes around. Not pleasant in the open. The run was very easy until the sprints back home in front of the advancing lightning.

Tuesday Feb 9, 2010 #

Back, core and achilles 10:00 [1]
weight:78.2kg (rest day)

No chance of a run today.

Monday Feb 8, 2010 #

Orienteering support (Cartography) 45 [3]

Note

Intriguing find of the weekend mapping- a peach tree! The tree was in the middle of the mining wasteland. It had clearly never been pruned, had no watering and no spraying. It says a lot about the resilience of old seedling varieties compared with modern peach genetics. It had no sign of curly leaf or brown rot (ok it is in an isolated position). It was also bearing fruit despite the dry location. The fruit was small, within a day of ripening. I went back this morning on the way to work and picked the fruit. It was at the 'touch and drop' stage. They were quite tasty white slipstones. A little water would have improved the taste, but it was still better than most of the dry fruit you get in supermarkets these days. Final minor miracle.. the birds hadn't found it!

From Virginia Hill

And a couple of previews of the terrain nearby, seeing I had a camera with me.

From Virginia Hill

C • I found a pear tree on Spring Gully once! 5

6 AM

Running warm up/down 19:30 [2] 3.18 km (6:08 / km) +30m 5:51 / km
weight:77.6kg shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

Running around Maiden Gully Streets waiting for enough light to head out into the bush.

New shoes felt comfortable. I realised they had the corny name Xodus when I logged them here. Obviously the name had no impact on my purchase decision. Who invents these names and why?

Running 21:58 [4] 4.55 km (4:50 / km) +45m 4:36 / km
shoes: Saucony Xodus 9.5

This is meant to be the tempo run of the week. Tomorrow is too complicated to fit on a run, so it was brought forward. I missed a long run yesterday, so this change in schedule shouldn't have been a problem. However, I continued last weeks trend in getting yet slower. Now 1 minute behind the time of three weeks ago. At least the mass is going in the right direction now.

C • Slower? 2

Back, core and achilles warm up/down 10:00 [1]

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