Training Log Archive: PrueD

After a dewy night and a few freight trains through the tent (or that is what they sounded like), I went to the event at Saint Georges Lake. This area was much hillier than yesterday and I wasn't really up to course 3. I rolled down the hills with my brakes on and had to walk up lots of hills. On one, top junior Angus yelled at me to 'get on my bike and pedal' (not very respectful) and Carolyn asked me if I had a puncture. No. A tough event, but I finished. I am going for the MTBO W50 series award, so have to do course 3. It was very humid.

Coffee at a café on both days after the event was good. Totally stuffed now. We'll see how the knee pulls up this week.

I decided to have a big weekend of MTBO. It took my knee a week to recover from last weekend's foot-O, which was a shame, so I thought MTBO might be a bit less stressful on it.

Saturday's event was at Muckleford Diggings, a fairly flat area a bit like the Killawarras in the NE. I did course 3, which was correct for my age group. All went well until the 2nd last control where I tried to find a sneaky route to outsmart the opposition. I knew it wasn't going well when I went through spider webs. It was a bad route choice and probably cost me at least 10 mins. Still, it was fun and I had a good time. Ross from Benalla came for a go. He usually does motorbike rallying, so this was a change. Turned out he knew about 4 people there already.

I camped at the caravan park at Creswick, which was very nice, with the exception of a domestic dispute inside a nearby tent to which the police were called! 26 of us went to an MTBO dinner at the pub, which was very social.

Street O at Blackburn North.

Swim.