Training Log Archive: O-ing

Hardys Bay on the Central Coast. With Ezy from Pymble until his front brake fell off on Mount White. Well, should say with Ezy until the start of Mt White - Ezy "likes hills". Severe climb near the end called "Wards Hill", 1km, 105m climb. Not to be repeated, but it got me to a new all time climb record.

Lane Cove. For the Nanny state-Donkey coverers-Knee jerk reactors and cry wolvers - I can report that there are no fallen trees or branches across the Fairyland track, 10 days after the fire. So, for the approx 5,000 burned or damaged trees close enough to the track to fall on someone thats a zero in 240hrsx60minutesx5000 =1 in 72 million chance of getting hit by a falling tree or branch.

C • Fallen Trees 1

Commute.

Commute

C • Serious Climb 4

Dundas Valley. Pretty shocking start up the massive hill to #11. #7 and #21 in the wrong place, but didn't lose any time. Overshot #6 after I didn't read the description. Also tried to go direct away from #16 and had to double back. Got #17 instead of #5 on advice from Cath. A long way, but worth it because I got in a minute early. Probably should have gone for #13, might have been late, but not two minutes worth.
EDIT. GPS trace shows that #7 was in the right place, but that the map is wrong (misplaced yellow on W side of creek). #21 was wrong, probably because the map is really wrong in this area. The road (Dandarbong Av) to the NE of the control site is shown about 100m short of where it should go, and everything else in that area is accordingly off, although the control was only about 40m off - so the setter did well to half correct.

Back to pilates. Better session, the instructor left me pretty much alone unlike the last one who was always unhappy with my breathing and wanted to change exercises all the time - I like to spend a decent amount of time getting to fatigue before I move on.

Commute

Gladesville. Good course, technical area, and the flaws in my technique are starting to show. Just not reading the map well enough, or early enough. Case in point was 15 where I put the map away and sprinted for the 4th fastest split, 9 seconds ahead of Cath. Cath, though was reading the map and took back all that time and more (20 seconds) on the next two that she had planned ahead on the way to 15. All up, probably lost about 45 seconds.

Running well, no sign of cold and knees holding up. A little slow on hills, and faded a bit near the end.

A very good competition separating the navigators from the runners. Almost everybody lost time - the best navigators (according to AP) were:
Tracy Marsh, Darren Slattery, Peter Garren, Airdrie Long (zero time loss)
Linda Sesta (8 seconds lost)
Dave Lotty (9)
Paul Prudhoe (10)
Matthew Hill (11)
Paul Marsh (15)

Gladesville Sprint - Splits