Training Log Archive: PrueD

Oceania Long Distance event at Transit Flat, west of St Helens. The day was quite a bit cooler than the previous days, so, despite starting after 11, I had a fairly comfortable run. The road/track route was an option on several legs and I took this successfully between 1 and should have used this option more, as I am slow through the bush. I think I went fairly well until 4-5, where I opted for the cross country route, which was definitely not runnable - finding myself climbing over huge grass mounds, that you could sit on and therefore losing time. 7 to 8 was a long cross country leg and although I selected a good route route - along the spur line - I probably lost a bit of time in the bracken on the side of the spur. My result was midfield, but I was pretty happy as my knee coped with the event well - the first sign that my life is starting to return to normal at last.
After the event, we drove to Hobart in order to fly out early the next morning.
Distance is a guess as the strap on my Garmin broke.

C • "strap on my Garmin broke" 2

Another rest day. Suzanne and l did a short walk at Freycinet and encoutered a sizeable proportion of the 600 + orienteers here. Afterwards we visited several wineries. I bought a couple of really nice sauvignon blancs, but they didn't last long.........they were the only things stolen when Bruce's car was broken into at Beaumaris beach, while we were having a short walk! I spotted the culprit, who was a large man with a pot belly driving a Kevin Moloney style van.

C • that's terrible 3

Decided to not run the Oceania event today as knee was somewhattender. It was a good day to miss as my course was physically very tough and it poured with rain midway through.
I cheered people on at the uphill spectator control and after observing about 100 orienteers decided it was time to lose weight!

Oceania Race 3 at Kelvedon. It was terribly hot and l started at 3 pm. I conceded it was worth going as practice, but there were no sheep stations at stake. My knee is now quite tender and l need to save it for the long distance, so walked the whole way, slowly. I still made a couple of errors. Had the weather been cooler and l fresher, it would have been a nice runable course.

Oceania middle distance at Rajah Rock. I started badly with problems ln 1 and 2 and never really understood the map. The rocky ground and fallen timber caused me considerable knee issues and l just walked. While l was disappointed with my result, it was to be expected as l have only just begun doing multiple runs in a week ando this was very tough terrain.
I had only slept about 2 hours the night before and, when l finished and was sitting listening to the commentary, fell asleep under tree for some time. When l woke up l rushed off, leaving my compass and stick behind. Luckily some of my club members found it.
I am travelling with Bruce and Suzanne. We had pancakes at Elephant Pass before heading to Lagoon Beach (nice place with free camping) near Bicheno. I iced my knee in the sea before floating around in the warm freshwater lagoon.

Social bike ride around Launceston, before heading to Bicheno.