Training Log Archive: Craney

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Central basin at lunch. Started off as a deferred warm-down from the long on Sunday. However, as it was a nice day and I was feeling quite good on the flat I ended up running at an honest pace.

Public holiday and a good day for a rest day after 11 pretty solid days in succession.

At Burngoogee near Wagga, came 4th. In hindsight not really the performance I needed at this stage, finishing 10:07 behind Simon (ouch)!! I reckon half of that down to me being a muppet and half down to him running a blinder. A race of three thirds for me - first half an hour was terrible with big mistakes at #2, #3, #7, #10 and #11. Going straight on #6 might have cost me 20secs or so too. Just didn't really get into the map or adapt to the green. So I was 5mins down already.

But the next half an hour was pretty good with Robert Bennett in tow - lost a bit on #15 and #17, and a fair bit on #20 getting stuck in blackberries. But generally cleaner and feeling ok.

Road option to #22 seemed to be ok from the splits and I was clean round the final controls but physically popped after the big hill, which was very disappointing. So I haemorrhaged another 3mins in the final half hour and dropped behind Tomas and David (Swede). Oh well.

Hope to be feeling a bit fresher in three weeks and two days. I'll need to find the energy to race for an extra 20mins or so and the softness will make it tough. But this was tough in its own way and I wasn't really rested for it. And running and reading a map at the same time felt much more natural this weekend than it has done all year. So overall net confidence probably increased slightly from the weekend.

Day 2 Course 1 - Splits

Event: 2017 Australian 3 Days
 

At Connorton near Wagga. Had a good controlled run and fortunately just did enough to take the win. Really good fun granite terrain - fast but with huge rocks scattered about the place. First couple of legs were easy and I felt quite good running hard doing vague navigation. Tricky short legs from 2-8 caught a few people out: I lost maybe 20secs or so on #4 right in the middle of loads of rocks but otherwise coped ok. Then relatively fast and straightforward to 14 - my route down the creek on the long leg to 12 seemed pretty good. Small time losses on 15 and 16 but still going well. Last few legs were fast yet dangerous and I took a few risks but importantly picked good attackpoints and kept it clean. Happy to finally string together a good race combined with feeling fine physically. Good confidence booster for WOC.

Day1 Course 1 - Splits

Lunch lap around some of Red Hill north. Felt quite good.

Intervals on Mt Taylor: 4x3mins on flattish single track and fairly fast (~3:40s) , then a 3min uphill, then a 4.5min uphill to finish at the trig. Felt ok.

Warm-up/down and 1min recoveries.

IW with Sam and Jasen the usual longish route. Pretty fresh and windy today. Felt pretty good and we ran a touch faster than normal.