Training Log Archive: Treb

Jog to the start of the Southern Champs and a few drills and stretches.

Southern Orienteering Champs. This was supposed to be 16km I did a little extra apparently. By completing this I have matched the total number of longs that I finished last year but I was a horribly long way down on the leader. Technically it went ok, well for the first half only a few small mistakes, think the first couple were due to not being used to 1:15000, but these sorted themselves out and the navigation became a lot cleaner. Continued well until until my brain started to melt and the big mistakes began, this was at around 20 and they continued for quite a few of the controls until the finish.
Physically I seemed to be running ok legs weren't as bad as I thought they would be after yesterday. How ever this didn't last for the entire race, think I drained myself a little with the long leg it around the path route choice to number 5 where I might have pushed it a little hard. Seemed to be running at a relatively good pace though until around control 18 where I noticed my mins/km dropping off and I was feeling really tired, at this point Ed caught me up and I managed to pick the pace up for a bit longer and stuck with him until about 24 at this point I hit a wall and really struggled to run and navigate for the rest of the course. Eventually finished having messed making stupid mistakes and struggling to run through the bracken. Also for the first time ever had nipples so badly chaffed they were bleeding.

Jog back to the car.