Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Australian Relays, in an M45 team with Fredrik and Dion. Going into the event, I thought we were in a good position - there were other teams which had two good people but we had the most depth. Tasmania was potentially the strongest opposition - I wasn't confident of defending anything less than 6-7 minutes against Jon if it came to that.

Fredrik and Dion did the work to put us in a good position. Fredrik had a 6-minute break on Anthony Stoner, who can be very fast on his day, and as long as Dion had a decent run I was going to take over with a good lead (it turned out to be 8 minutes over NSW and 18 over Tasmania, although of course I didn't know that for sure), so I just needed to avoid doing anything stupid.

This mission was duly accomplished. I became a little bit scrappy in the technical erosion stuff in the second half (but I think most did); avoided anything bigger than 20-30 seconds. The running was also somewhat better than yesterday (i.e. I could actually run most of the hills). While our lead in our own class was comfortable, there was potential for some battles with other classes on the same course. I couldn't run down Warren (in the winning M55 lead), but went out with a small lead over Tara (W20). She caught me at the first control after the spectator but then lost time on the next one; I saw her again 50 metres or so back going into the second-last and thought I might have had a fight on my hands, but she must have lost a little time there.

Jon did have a flyer on the last leg and did 31, but Tasmania were too far back to challenge for anything higher than second.