Training Log Archive: Bertbennett

Today was my first time racing down and back up Mt Sugarloaf. Very painful and a lot of "powerhiking" involved to let the HR get down into normal territory.

I came 2nd behind Vlad Shatrov who was a huge margin ahead (8-9 mins I think). As soon as we started climbing today I could feel that the flu that I've been battling for the last 4 weeks hasn't completely gone away. I could feel my pulse in my head almost instantly every time the road went up. So I think if I do this race again there's definitely a few minutes that can be taken off this time with a better build up and no flu. Vlads time is still out of reach for sure. Had a goo at half way and that perked me up a bit but the wheels were starting to fall off towards the end but I had a bloke less than 30 seconds behind me so I couldn't relax in the final 5km.

Took my data from a bloke with a really expensive watch so I think the elevation and distance should be correct. I went full nattie without a watch today, not by choice, mostly because I lost my charger chord.

I think this race has the potential to be a really popular race given that this type of race is becoming more popular world-wide. But I'm glad that for now it's a relatively small locally run and cheap

Both my big toenails are purple now.

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Thought I should get out the day before the 25km KOM race at Sugarloaf tomorrow so the legs don't feel too bad. I've still got this weird constant dehydration from the flu that I got last week which is hanging around. So I don't think tomorrow is going to be the greatest performance but it should be fun.

Run around glendale. Keeping to my new modus operandi of getting as many hills as possible. I think this is for sure much more specific to orienteering.

Soar throat and chest so the cold hasn't completely left me behind.