Training Log Archive: O-ing

Marlay Park. Cold (11).

Day 3, chasing start, M55. Okm. Won overall (but 13th on the day), in yet another Day 3 fadeout. This time the problem wasn't physical, but technical/mental. With a 22 minute lead on 2nd place I was conscious of just doing enough and that probably led to two major errors, which were quite distinct. #3 was a 7 minute error, or 40th place on the course for that leg. I just got into the wrong area and was unable to relocate - I was using the wrong lake in the distance. After that got over cautious, and dropped another 6 minutes on #8, mostly just standing still trying to fit the map - I was where I thought I was, but just couldn't make the map fit. Actually managed to increase my overall lead to 26 minutes as Andrew Cox had a shocker but just managed to hold on to 2nd, by 5 seconds from Anders Eriksson, with class winner on the day John McCullough just falling short of snatching a podium place. Great course to finish with topsy turvy results as most people were error prone today.

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