Training Log Archive: AliC

Warm up for Shotover race. Felt pretty awful. My heart rate jumped as soon as I hit each hill, and wasn't comfortable to breathe...

RAF match at Shotover. Such a good course. So, despite feeling like crap during the warm-up, I had a good race, 10s back from Emily, 10 up on Jess. Cathy was in the lead by about 30s, but I think I could be closer on a better day!

Definitely good to race, and got the legs a little more used to hills!

Warm down with the girls after the race. Tired! I didn't want to run up the hills.... Stayed at my spot to marshall for the mens race afterwards.

Jogged around the Brill light-green course without a compass. First time ever trying to orienteer without a compass, and it worked, although got way confused on the first control- about 2 min extra! It's a good area to look at the contours on the map, and try to make sense of everything around you.

I also didn't see the crossing point of the uncrossable fence and so went around. Oops.

Lots of new people tried orienteering- good stuff!

Warm up around south parks a bit. Some drills too.

2 x 12 min tempo

Felt ok, despite still having the sore throat. Wasn't so easy to breathe, but tempo pace doesn't require too much breathing...

Lovely day out, really enjoyed being out in the sun!!

Warm down around South Parks and home!

Running around Uni Parks before/after orienteering.

Ian's "aiming-off" training. Good stuff, definitely made harder by all the stuff (like football games) in the way. Felt ok after the sore throat the past few days, but not super-energetic.