Training Log Archive: Craney

Overnight ferry to Melbourne, then the long drive home up the Hume. Girls were good though and we only needed shortish stops in Benalla, Holbrook and Bowning.

At Littlechilds Creek, came 3rd. Not a great run with a number of sizeable errors - a mixture of mid leg wobbles from low confidence and a few misses in the circle. Awesome terrain though which provided heaps of variety of technique and was constantly challenging, so plenty of learning generated. Need to be more sure on my compass when it’s low vis and have a better picture of the circle. Felt good physically though, which was pleasing. Thought #4 wasn’t quite in the right spot? Caught Marty up about 2/3 through which made the last part even more fun.
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Easter-Tas-Bay-of-F...

At Golden Fleece, came 5th. Ok tin mining, you win again. Great fun middle race - ok and careful to begin with, then opened up on a couple of running legs, then dismally failed at readjusting back in the mining. Totally underestimated how much slower that stuff was, so undershot the leg and had no real plan. 3:30mins later Brodie came along and saved me. Rest of the course was quite a fun burn up with him.
Amusing livelox:
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Easter-Tas-Bay-of-F...

Bush sprint at Golden Fleece. This was good fun - very tricky scrappy little race with lots of indistinct features to navigate by. Coped ok for the most part but electing to wing it on a tricky vague control (9) backfired - you would think I would have learnt by now. Also hit 19 before 18, so 1.5-2mins of errors all up. Not great for a sprint but it was tricky and everyone made mistakes it seems.
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Easter-Tas-Bay-of-F...

Nice morning out with coffee in Kingston (TAS) and paddling at Taroona beach (while Grace ran between the two). Then I did a nice run up the jungly trail to the Mt Nelson signal station for more coffee and lunch. Quite a steep climb so wasn't exactly a recovery jog, but I felt ok anyway.

Enjoyed a quiet day in Hobart. Entertaining livelox from the weekend:
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Easter-Tas-Aus-3-Da...
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Easter-Tas-Aus-3-Da...
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Easter-Tas-Aus-3-Da...

C • Routes 2

At Curryjong Rivulet, came 2nd overall (3rd on the day). Good to have an actual chasing start this year, although going into it from my point of view Simon was uncatchable ahead and Brodie was uncomfortably close behind. Enjoyed this map though - very English feel to it being a working forest with lots of vegetation features and man-made objects. Felt good in the legs too, so was able to push quite hard. Had a good run but for three quite big mistakes at #7, #9 and #11 - all easy controls but just pushing a bit too hard to properly have a plan. So that was a bit frustrating - but the rest was good. In the end, there was no material change to the time gaps going into the race although various stuff did happen out there as we all made mistakes at different points in the race.