Training Log Archive: nic.

Park o event two!

I was pleasantly surprised with the map, i could only remember the park being super open but i really had to navigate and use my compass in the green. I made errors on 3 and 8, i justt was a tad to the side of the controls and couldn't pick which tree each was on. I also messed up number 14, i actually got to 23 before hand, i think i got caught drifting around the thicker stuff and didn't have my exit direction.

Long - Splits

Terrain ints. I went to a new spot today which was nice.
I did, 3 min, 2 min, 90 sec, 60 sec, 30 sec. With two minutes recovery between each. There was a small bit of hill in each too, which was good.

The warm up was just running around to try to figure out a loop i could do, then the warm down was a bit of a loop in the streets.

3 sets of ten laps again, but at the end i decided to do butterfly, backstroke, breastroke and freestyle just to make sure i could still do it all. And i didnt drown :)
It was really nice today, there was only one other guy in the pool with me!

Last Oshea event, the score course.
I think Angus and i seemed to split the course pretty well! I had the northern loop, and we got back about a minute apart i think it was which was really cool! Pretty happy with my navigation today thank goodness, but i did struggle to get myself going on some of the hills. We both had a looooong track run at the end, and i wanted to make up for the fact that i may have walked a bit of a hill or two and tried to pump it a bit at the end. We ended up winning!! GO TEAM! :D hah
Oh and once again not too sure on my actual time, i lost my splits...

C • Splits 2

Im not sure how correct the time is, it was a bit of a guess.
But first race of the Oshea, i ran second, Angus was the best partner and had a brilliant run. However i messed up a control or two and we were behind. It was about control 8 i think which was the bad one, i lost a very indistinct track and then was in the wrong watercourse and didn't realise for ages because the vegetation on the hill was not what i expected at all. Then the last control was a bit of a shocker too, my exit direction was awful. Not to mention the weather, sooooo much rain! it was insane!!!!

It was really dark and there was rain and thunder and lightening and leaches and i didnt really like it... I struggled alot to see anything other than the rain infront of me, i had no idea even when i was on a track. The start of it in the buildings was great, but as soon as we got into the bush i just struggled alot. Plus, the tracks as well as the watercourses were like rivers which made it that bit more challenging. I was doing the long course, Angus on the medium and because only one of our times was going to count i actually abandoned after the 50 minutes, first time ever i think... :( But i feel like it was an alright course to let myself do it on.

Pyramid ints ; 100 200 300 200 100. 2 mins rest between.
Times were 21, 38, 61, 39, and 18. I was pretty happy with how it went i think, i tried to focus on a good running style, i'm not sure how successful i was though.

About a 10 minute warm up and then warm down and stretches. Perhaps a tad slack with the warm down, but it was raining...