Training Log Archive: nh

Smashed the Winter Classic, 40 min lead over second place. Started on the same loops as Tim, we were real casual, having a mean chat while running round, so I made some silly mistakes. Had different loops after that and I managed to get ahead for the big loop. Fairly clean, just pretty tired from the bays relay the day before. Solid effort by Shamus to get second.

3rd leg of the Bays Relay. Got an epic stitch after about 1km though, tried to fight through it but it got worse and worse. Calvin and Ed were on their bikes beside me but urging me on but I was so fucked.

Jogged the last leg for another team. Wanted to push it harder but my stitch was still sore. Must have wrecked something in my chest because it was sore that night still. Felt strong otherwise.

Ran a short sprint around the cemetery which ended up taking much longer than I expected, because of how crappy the forest and how slippery the ground was. (1) White forest in the gully was full of blackberry so that took ages to fight through +0:10. (14) Forest here had lots of blackberry in it too, thought I was through it all once I was in, but there was a massive wall of it going out the other side too +1:10. (24) Forest looked much nicer further down, but it wasn’t, and the forest where the control was was impenetrable +0:30. (29) Graves extended much further along the path, so had to backtrack to get to the control +0:15. Mostly I just lost time from not being able to run fast or take corners quickly, because of the wet, and having to stop to read which path I needed to run around. They were really small on the map.

C • you better re-map it then b... 2