Training Log Archive: grilla

Route choice is not my forte and score events are just one massive route choice problem so today was rather embarrassing. Need a bit of practice riding my bike too as I was a bit of a woos going up and down hills. Very nice not to worry about pea gravel or slippery logs though so I did enjoy myself.

C • Score events 2

Event: Super Long World Champs - Version 2
 

The (not-quite for me) Super Long World Champs - struggled today but had a lot of fun - didn't do a great deal of map reading except when I was so far behind I couldn't see anyone. Did less than a 1/3 of the controls - hate to think how tough it will be getting to the finish, especially after a McDonalds stop. Cut out 22-31 as that looked too steep for the likes of me, pulled out at 50 out of 150 controls.
Thanks to Eoin who had half a snow cone waiting for me at the end - needed it - Aoife wouldn't share the other one.
This run was shorter and slower than last week's but felt a lot harder. I've decided I'm not that bad at hills, but cannot handle steps.

Summer Series at Glebe - much better terrain for the pram today & I was smart enough to check the map beforehand so I only got caught out by a couple of sets of stairs & Eoin helped at the worst of those. Had some trouble crossing roads, dodging pedestrians was hard work. Pretty good fun except that I was 30 sec late (couldn't get pram through a low fence) and in the rush I forgot the code of a 30pt control that I didn't write down straight away - need to polish up on that technique - so lost 40 on an already low score.
Aoife pretty disappointed as we ran past about 20 playgrounds that she wanted to get out for - chasing Daddy cheered her up until I realised I'd run past a control doing that and so we turned back - not happy Mummy!
Max heart rate trying to make the finish :(

C • Fish Markets 14

A novel activity. Warm up a bit short and warm down was mainly chasing Aoife and her bike around the playground.

C • Long O Saturday 3

Another Monday another brain failure. Chanted to myself all day - concentrate, read the map etc. etc. Half way to number 1 I'd forgotten all that. Need to get my head around the Sydney colour for residential - its very yellow & I keep expecting to see open meadows in the heart of suburbia. Time losses at 1, 4, 5, 8.
What a stunning place for a sprint event - too bad the fish and chip shop shut at 6:00pm, lucky we'd had a sample yesterday!

C • Fish and Chips 2