Training Log Archive: Craney

Steady run mainly on Wanniassa.

Longun in Pierces Creek Pine Forest - from near the Sugarloaf, up to Hardy Trig, then up to Pierces Trig and back. Quite a bit of climb and getting quite tired towards the top of Pierces. Low mist and drizzle up there - very refreshing for a change! Also saw 5 lyrebirds at close range, which was nice. Left leg still very tight - must've slightly pulled something.

Another morning one to avoid later impending heat (it hit 41 it turns out!) - left leg very tight but fine otherwise. Bumped into Gracie on the return down Flinders so ran with her for the last 10mins.

Fairly gentle up Redders and Davo - thought I'd best get out early since it's meant to hit 37 today...

Nice course keeping me in the bush, mainly looking for controls on small (but fair) termies. Cruised round thinking about looking at the whole leg and picking a route in advance then executing it accurately. Came off line a couple of times, not helped by running sans-compass (I find it good practice to do this from time to time, although the only reason I did this time was cos I busted my compass in the traffic cone incident last week). Legs generally a bit tired.

15min warm-up jog, jogged down through the first 6 controls (much less accurate when not focussing as much).

Gentle run up Davo from home with Gracie - nice to be back in the 'berra, warm and sunny as usual :o)

Gentle morning run round the suburbs of Napier reflecting a bit on the week just gone. Disappointing overall as no great results in the finals:
Middle - 51st - needed to do more techinique training - I'm going too slow to stay clean in technical terrain and still cocking up 1 in 10 controls
Sprint - 34th - needed to practice international races more - lacked focus through the spectator control so didn't devote enough time to planning the long leg
Chase - 27th - need to work on pack running (and hills) more

Having said that, 15th in the sprint qual and 16th in the prologue were very pleasing indeed - my physical training since Tasmania in September (where I was pretty slow to be honest) has really paid off better than I expected.

I'm not too far away, so I've now got plenty of motivation to train hard - could do with learning a thing or two from Gracie who pulled off a great week with 3 top 20s.