Training Log Archive: jennycas

Still not feeling great today, and struggled to get into the map a bit, misreading up & down contours in the pines so the Swedish woman had already caught me 1 min by the first control, then I didn't think I could run hard on the track so took the cross-country route across the rough 'open' - slow, but not terrible, but I stuffed up the end of this leg because a sand blow is really not a good attack point. Was passed by Jo going into 2 but she was out of sight fairly quickly; another couple of women caught me also, who were running faster than me but not necessarily navigating cleanly and so I saw them a couple more times. Took the cross-country route again on the next longer leg (hoping I'll be up to hard track running by Sat though) and this would have been ok except that I was too far right at the end and lost a minute or two. The rest of the course was ok although I had to walk up hills. Also, there was more pampas grass on the ground than on the map but I don't mind that sort of low visibility too much.

Ended up 11th, but aiming for 9th tomorrow - could easily have been 5 min faster on a good day.

We had heard about Auckland traffic, so left at 7am and allowed 2 hours to get there, and needed all but 5 min of it - and then there was still the 2km walk to the assembly area. The plan was to leave the event early enough to be home before traffic time but since the drug-testers became John's new best friend and we had to wait around a couple of hours for the consequences, we ended up getting home @5:30pm...

Long - Qualification 1 - Women 40 Heat 1 - Splits