Training Log Archive: jennycas

Great little course around the Lutheran school near McLaren Vale. Tried to run hard and managed to stay in contact with the map mostly - a couple of lucky saves despite dodgy exit directions, one leg where the line between controls hid a blocked access and so I ran into a dead end. And then there was the infamous 122, which for the men was their first control and for us the 24th. The map really truly made it look like the control would be where an impassable fence met the outside corner of the building, but the building was an open-fronted shed and so the description was of course "undercover area, inside corner". Oxygen debt (finally able to run faster than I can currently think on the run) meant that I went to the outside corner, had a WTF moment, checked my description and bolted around to the inside, losing maybe 25 sec. 2 min behind Liv; ideally I should have been about 40 sec faster across this course without mistakes but I still managed a lot better than many people, particularly on 122. Very impressed by the M16s' times on this course though!

My hip/groin tightened up horribly this afternoon (too much time sitting at computer last night and again this morning because I got up at 6am to write rogaine event info) and I could hardly walk when I got home, but then after spending a few hours sorting through my boxes of maps and travel paraphernalia from 2010/11/12 I had unearthed a 2012 sprint series map of Waite , so thought I'd go run around that while the pizza we'd just made was in the oven. This was good fun and my hip held up ok - started having trouble reading the map towards the end as it was getting dark, also my eyes don't read the detail so well any more even at 1: 4 000. Good thing this morning was @1: 3 000!