Training Log Archive: AndreM

My mind wasn't in race mode and I didn't feel like racing today so banked on having a smooth and efficient run which for the most part I achieved, making for an enjoyable day. Securing my map board on with cable ties was a breakthrough as it was much more solid my reading ability improved much.

Mostly all smooth at the start. A small overshoot to 1 where I missed a left to a parallel track. Looking at the splits I must have started out fairly slowly to the first two controls as I was 2-3mins of the pace on both. Thereafter kept in the mix and had my best leg from 7-8, the big one, only 1 min slower than Ricky, due to a better route choice.

All good to 10 but then left towards 12 and nearly got there before realising I needed to backtrack back to 11. Then back to 12 was still a bit slow on the splits. 13, 14, 15 were good.

Up to 16 I almost went straight to the control but doubted my position and went and found 18 first to figure out where I was, and then came back too fast and overshot the turn off to 16 again. I might have been 5-6mins better off if I had found 16 straight away. 19 was quick and to the finish fine.

A very enjoyable course and day to be out there.

After a spiced cider at the Core Cidery with KG I thought I better make the most of being out here and get some more trail running in in preperation for the Cairns. Started running up the valley along Merrivale Rd which is a really pretty valley with farmland to my left and bush to my right. Lots of Italian names on the farms, who have no doubt lived there a while. I thought about the irate guy who came over to the MTBO and then heard gunshots in the distance. Finally got to the end of the road and went into the obligatory track heading into the bush. I scrawled a big arrow at each intersection to help me find my way back and pretty much hit the limits of my track memory when I hit the Munda Biddi trail and problem solved. Ran down this to the S for about 45mins and then back again. My pace picked up on the way back even though a lot of it was up hill. Found a track parallel to the road and ran that for most of it until I was a bit concerned about heading down the wrong valley and managed to find the most prickley spot to bush bash back to the road -good rogaine training I suppose.

Long - Splits

Event: Shenton College NavDash
 

Run on the long course. Made one mistake by exiting 11 towards 20. I learned a lot here setting my first Navdash. In hindsight I could have rearrange the butterfly control numbers to make them a bit more intuitive to getting to the next control. Also, 17 should have been placed so that you can see it in the hallway - having it hidden made things a bit unfair. Glad to see such a big turn out and that most people could figure out the courses given the number of crossing lines etc.

Happy again - I got my garmin to talk to AP again. It required a call to Garmin UK, a Master Reset of the device and an update of the firmware from 4.2 to 4.5.