Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Home from work, more successful than last time in that I didn't have to call for a pick-up. This time down-river into the red zone then somehow managed to do so well finding my way home that the run came in a touch on the short side. I suppose I could have finished off with a round of the block, but...

Streets/Parks/Cemetaries somewhere in ChCh eastern suburbs. 1 hour time limit. Sort of meant to do up to 10 minute running bursts with up to 5 minute walking in between, but sort of wasn't really diligent enough on that. Ankle was ok running on paved surfaces but probably would have been a bit achey by the end even without the odd little tug when I tried to run on the grass or gravel bits. Did try to walk on the off-road bits after the first couple of those... Got 19/23 controls, 510/600 points. Clearing the map would have been on if I'd been able-bodied, although some clever control placement meant I would have had to commit to that almost right from the start - I suspect instead I would have started conservatively and finished with maybe 2 controls missed and an annoying 5ish minutes in hand!

Omahu Bush in the Port Hills, with ankle tightly strapped. With the intent to give it a bit of a testing work-out. Track was a bit rougher and slipperier than anticipated, but despite feeling I could have done better on the shoe choice and having to be pretty careful sometimes, got through intact.

Stupid fucking ankle

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Hagley circuit - nice work out but should have tried to take it a bit easier. Also had to make a quick adjustment to the plan when the way I cut through the hospital last time was no longer cut-throughable, which will probably be a regular happening in downtown Christchurch for a while yet.

Bottle Lake - this time more or less staying on the marked routes and with a trail map, which didn't completely eliminate the mysteriousness, but at least I could make use of the road signs whenever I saw one... good for about 40 or 50 minutes then hit the wall a bit - at about the stage where any possible shortcut was on the other side of the landfill zone...