Training Log Archive: jennycas

Event: Sprint Adelaide (Single day entry only) race 3 - Flinders University - Morn
 

Event: Sprint Adelaide (Single day entry only) race 4 - Flinders University - Afte
 

This was the first race of the knockout sprint and I was paired with Meredith on the start line, and kept seeing her throughout the course (she had A, I had B), and then we raced each other to the finish unit which she punched first but we were recorded as finishing in the same second, haha. Took anti-inflammatories last night and so hamstring was less painful today, although still restricted in movement and I wasn't very fluent on the stairs, of which there were plenty. Therefore I tended to take wider routes although maybe these weren't as efficient; even so, I didn't expect to be quite as much as 4 min down on Bridget. Flinders Uni is so much fun with its network of convoluted courtyards :)

Mass start in the C girls, on the southern side of the lake, and I feel I did well to avoid the traps although a couple of times took an up-and-down route when I should have gone wider/flatter. Ended up chasing Meredith into the finish again!

Flinders Uni knockout sprint final
Spent a couple of hours putting out controls, taping off garden bed near the last control, opening gates in the childcare centre so it could be a through route, and had the start set up well before the first competitors were ready to use it. The elite course had mass starts (which I hadn't been aware of until this morning) for C, B, A finals, so it was a good thing that I'd set a snap-decision route choice leg right out of the start, but a bit unfortunate that competitors in later finals got to witness the decisions made by groups starting before them. Also unfortunate that the start clock I'd been given turned out to be a minute slow (not that I knew this until afterwards) and so all the results on the elite course are shown as being a minute longer than they actually were. On the bright side, it does mean that the top runners got close to the 10 min winning time I was aiming for, and I'm particularly proud of the route choice trap which I set on the second-last leg, avoidance of which won Simon the race.

Had intended to run home afterwards - amazing that everything was packed up by 7pm - but I was pretty buggered and the beach seemed like a better option...