Training Log Archive: Craig

Day 2 of the 2 day classic at Hill Park Dale. I hoped I would feel a bit better today and the difficult terrain would give me a chance of being competitive against Henry and Tomas. First half of the course was pretty tough and technical. I was happy enough with the navigation but really struggled physically. Felt even worse than yesterday but kept plugging away doing the best I could as it is the sort of terrain that makes everyone feel slow at times. Feeling the effects of the huge dinner last night and fairly late breakfast a bit too. Only mistake was a little lapse on 10 where I switched off running down the gully thinking about the next leg and wasted about 20 seconds checking the cliff just above the control. I might have still been close to the lead at 12 but lost a lot of ground on running speed over the fast easy second half to end up 2 or 3 minutes down on Tomas and Henry today and 5 or 6 minutes overall. Still quite pleased to be well clear of everybody else but frustrating to be feeling so much worse physically than I have been on Wednesdays.

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Expert 1 - Splits

Event: Foot-O - Two Day Classic
 

Middle distance race on a sprint scale map from the Easter prologue in 2011. Got through the first short legs ok without feeling completely in control. Starting to feel more confident and push a bit harder on the long leg out to the pivot control but came unstuck on 7-8. Crossed the spur and expected to see the control straight in front of me but nothing looked remotely like what I was expecting and because I had been rushing a bit I assumed I had crossed the spur too high and ran back and downhill a bit. When I actually looked at the map and thought about it a bit I realised I couldn't be too high so ran back where I had been and from this direction could see someone punching well above where I had been. Lost about 45 seconds here. Pushed on and ran ok for the rest. Caught sight of Rachel leaving the pivot the second time and passed her approaching 14. I was a little disturbed to hear someone gaining on me near 20 until I realised it was tRicky who had started before Rachel. Crossed the fence to run around the spur to 21 mostly to go a different way from tRicky but got pushed wider than I wanted to go by fallen branches and lost a little ground. Followed tRicky to 22 but he stopped at 5 so I told him where he was as I ran past. Pushed the last few pretty hard trying to keep up with tRicky but tried not to push too hard up the hill to the finish as I hadn't been feeling great.

Expert 1 - Splits

Rosalie Run. Felt terrible and took it easy for most of the run but still got to the war memorial first for the first time ever. Pushed some of it really hard racing Daniel back down the hill despite still not feeling great. Legs were stiff and tired from gym on Monday I think.