Training Log Archive: PrueD

Yarra Valley Grammar. Nice course and l felt pretty good. My placings were starting to become relatively consistent and not too far behind a couple of others.

Kurunjang School, Melton. I had terrible trouble finding the start triangle on the map and possibly stood there for around 30 seconds. I then made a few errors and poor route choices. My eyes were really watery in the wind and l couldn't see. Navigated off Ron F who formed an unmapped manmade feature in the middle of one courtyard. Legs didn't want to run either. However, others must have had troubles too. Consistent result.
Quote of the day from Warren 'You're starting to look good in W60.' Thanks Warren!

Monash Uni. I was tossing up about whether to pretend l was 10 (or 20) years younger and get a poor result, or to embrace my new age category and do OK. I decided on the latter. A few kindly folk suggested perhaps they had put me in the wrong age group.
Race 1 - l made a few errors and discovered, towards the end that, if l put my foot on the accelerator pedal, l could go faster!

Caulfield Grammar. It was terribly hot and the course was hilly. I could barely run and my knee hurt. I carried my compass and actually used it a couple of times to speed up decisions. Made an error on 1 and got an extra control. Fabulous course. I also love SIAir! The accelerator pedal went on half way round.
Was tired when l got home and ate chocolate and lollies for dinner.

Run around Blackburn lake and creeklands, following a different route to normal. My knee was a bit sore almost the whole way - but started to feel better by the 6km mark. I hope it comes good for the weekend. For some distance the bird song was ruined by the sound of continual screaming, and l thought l was about to arrive at a murder scene. But it was just a very small child telling its mother it did not want to get out of its pusher.

Busy day with a colleague staying at my house. Went off to street-O but felt really tired. Ran the first 500 meters, then walked. Knee was sore, feet were sore and eventually l just gave in as a DNF and went home.

C • DNF 5

Slept in and then felt half asleep running around Blackburn lake and creeklands. Lots of bird watchers today. Bumped into (not literally) Ron F running the other way.