Training Log Archive: GraceE

Tasmanian Long Distance Championships, The Argonaut.
Same finish arena (kind of) but getting further out into the rocky hills this time. On a 1:15000 you had to read the rock really carefully to get it right. The first two-thirds of the course gave some good opportunities for hard/fast running so I tried to run strongly the whole time. I got through the detailed ones near the end ok but then proceeded to make a little mess of the last control on a thicket, again! That was my biggest mistake (<1min) so I got the win. Great fun, loved it!

Back up at Royal George in the afternoon where I put out some SI boxes (was out for about an hour). Then back to St Helens.

Event: Australian Championships 2012
 

Australian Middle Distance Championships, Jason's Task.
Awesome tin-mining terrain and a fantastic course, which was pretty tricky from start to finish. Kept the concentration up and slowed when I needed to, so got around with about 5 little misses/hesitations of under a minute each. Felt like it was a good run when I finished considering the difficulty so was pleased to find the result reflected this.

Our flight which was meant to be direct from Canberra to Hobart and arrive at 9.15pm didn't arrive in Hobart until 2am!! They made some strange excuses and turned us around while over Bass Straight and went to Melbourne instead. Then we had a long wait there until boarding a second flight at 12.30am.

Friday morning we drove up to Royal George in the relentless drizzle and Matt and I ran the Schools senior boys and girls courses (set by my parents). I was going to run it steady but then decided to do it medium-hard as my parents were interested in times and I didn't want any schools kids beating me ;)

Putting out some controls after my little race around. I was out for about an hour but couldn't really run with the control stands as I'm piss-weak. It was cold and wet so we called it a day with some control stands still left to put out. Luckily the landowner who passed by on his tractor said there was no need for us to camp in this weather - we could have the keys to his holiday shack in St Helens, which we gratefully accepted. Legend!!

Travelling to Hobart after work. My longest break so far this year was the four day Easter w/e, so I'm pumped for the next 11 days!! :)
Although.... we're camping :s

Red Hill (the SE section). Did a little course.

Remembrance Park / Ainslie. As it was an overcast afternoon, it got quite dark for the last few!