Training Log Archive: Bomb

Day 5 at oringen. swamp fest. bit of a mission.

run to the event, to the start, and home from the event. all a bit much really.

more sick, and decided that running in the rain wasn't going to help. bailed on stage 4. pity, map looked fun.

sick. damn.

Day 3. toughest terrain yet, and lowest visability. struggling to run in the thick stuff, and making some dumb mistakes. got bitten by a wasp too. at least the sun has come out.

Oringen day 2. middle distance. similar run to yestie, with some good controls and some shockers, but managed to do the really hard bits at the start and finish quite well, and lost the plot on the easy ones in the middle. not holding direction in the vague stuff very well.

Oringen Day 1. Epic day - got into goteborg at midnight the night before, train to orebro and bus out to the event. got my start time changed to last start (13.30). ok run. a couple of really good controls and a couple of shockers. generally not too bad given the preparation. horrible cold rainy day - so glad I"m not camping!

Event: O-Ringen Örebro 2010
 

had planned to do something, but too much last minute packing.
midnight tomorrow I'll arrive in sweden!

run home from work

pushups. 36, 40, 30, 24, 40. getting kinda hard!

C • getting kinda hard... 2

run home from work. bit flat to start with, but got going in the end.

girls ride at daisy hill. nice easy pace. good breakfast at the cafe afterwards.
was planning on heading out to the orienteering after breakfast, but the car wouldn't start at the cafe. starter motor gone. got it going with the help of racq, but decided not to risk trying to start it again out at the event (and was too late by then anyway).

C • thought you were sick? 90mi... 4

pushups. tough session after a week off. 36, 40 (knew I was in trouble), 30, 24, then 3x20 instead of >40 max. will repeat this set before I move on.

short run from clares place with clare and kirra. horrible to start with, but then good after I warmed up. was tempted to run for longer, but need to make sure I get properly better first.
cold this morning. ran with a long sleaved shirt for the first time this winter.

C • winter? 3

nearly better, but still not ready to run. maybe tmw?

C • kirra's bringing croissants... 1

slowly winning. better enough to go to work today (yay). goal is to run on sunday at mundoolan.

grossed out the doctor. more drugs, but no timeline on getting better, and no training till I do (unless I want it to end up in my lungs as well).
my life sucks atm.

C • Get better soon. Need anyth... 6

more painkillers please!

C • What sort of disease do you... 4

long run from Rachels, also with Clare and Kirra, and Katelyn for the first part. Tired, and really not into it today. had been planning something longer, but just wasn't happening.

mouth ulcer that's been hanging round for a few days turned feral. feels like I've been kicked in the head. trip to the doc and some antibiotics. looks like I might be having a few days off.

run home from work

pushups. 29, 33, 29, 29, 40. tired.

same same. was pretty tired, and nearly didn't go out. tired legs running, but mainly limited by fatigue and not being able to run faster in the dark. I think its my fastest time this year, despite the dark.

run home from work. finally managed to meet up with mark on the way, so had a good chat too.

pushups - 25, 29, 25, 25, 50... although Dan declared the last few of the 50 to be substandard (no 90 degree bend apparently). I think he's scared I'm catching him.

C • well bloody oath. can you p... 3

same set as last week, a little bit quicker (which was surprising after sundays run), but hurt more at the end (not surprising after sundays run). 12x450m 30sec rec (60sec at halfway). seemed to get quite windy in the second half.
96, 91, 92, 92, 92, 92, , 94, 93, 94, 96, 97, 94

pushups. 21 25 21 21 32. much harder than the last set. i think a run before kinda helps.

C • impressive stats with the p... 4

long o on the old bullecourt/passchendaele maps from the 1982 aus champs. big loop around the doughnut, then a smaller loop through passchendaele. the pine forest has all been felled and re-planted and is now nice and runnable again, but the mapping is very old school - not wrong, but hard to interpret (any rock less than enormous is ignored - so some really rocky areas have nothing on the map).
started a few minutes behind neil, and passed him early on, but then nearly every control I'd spend a while in the circle trying to figure out the map, and neil would arrive just as I was leaving the control. ended up having a big search at 6, and neil eventually gave up, I found it after another couple of minutes. caught neil up again 2 controls later and the same pattern started again.
took a while to get going at the start, but pretty happy with how I was running. nav was a big off, but the 30yr old map didn't help. actually quite amazing how much the map hasn't changed - its mainly the mapping style that is a bit hard to interprete - treated it like a rogaine map at the end, which helped!
it was also a bit of a test to look at the area for a re-map for the 2016? aus champs - should be awesome! some cascades-like native forest, and lots of pine forest with granite.

camp champs at the qld junior camp, at sandy creek. running well, but forgot brain. wasted heaps of time on 5, and then a couple of other stupid mistakes. heaps of jumping cactus - stopping every couple of steps for a couple of controls, which really gave me the shits - probably got about 50 all up, and a few prickles got stuck in my feet - ow!

warm up, warm down and control collection

in the dark again, but nothing too freaky this time. worst thing that happened was the cable on my light coming out on the first downhill (a little alarming!). pretty tired this week, so struggled along a bit.

pushups - 22, 30, 20, 20, 35. managed more than the minimum in the max pushups at the end for the first time.