Training Log Archive: Bomb

long run in toogum state forest near hervey bay, mostly on mtb tracks. raced dan and ash through a few tracks at the start where there were enough rough pinch climbs for me to get ahead occasionally. looks like a nice enough forest - pretty runnable, with enough detail for an ok orienteering map. might be worth the local club having a look at mapping it.

been thinking about easter and trying to figure out what went so badly wrong. being injured for the first 3 months of the year certainly didn't help, and after that it was certainly hard to balance the training I needed to do with enough recovery.
the orienteering training probably hasn't been that great either. because of the amount of grass on all our maps we've just had a lot of really slow running - probably great for terrain strength later in the season, but not great for racing now. the races at maryborough were a fairly extreme example of this, and I think I just ended up doing too much the last weekend before easter and hadn't recovered in time.

C • Bad luck 4

Easter day 3. A bit of a crazy easter schedule (arriving at midnight on thursday night, then getting lifts everywhere and having to go to meetings on sat afternoon) meant that I hadn't managed to get to shops all weekend. finally managed to sort that out on sunday afternoon, and at least got part of my normal post/pre race schedule sorted out before the final race. in this case specifically a post race beer on sunday night, and pre race coffee monday morning.
ta-da! legs were back! yay! unfortunately it took a little while to re-synch legs and brain to race pace and things went massively astray in the really vague area to #2 and I totally lost the plot - had everything lined up nicely, but the control I found was the wrong number. oops. then everything I tried to relocate off wasn't on the map. turns out I wasn't too far away, but nothing I could identify was on the map. ended up bailing to the fence and came in from that fine, but in the mean time had blown 9mins. got a bit pissed off after that and stormed though the next few controls. generally happy with the rest of the course. probably lost another 2mins in bad route choices, and the legs faded over the last part of the course.

really disappointed with the result - that mistake was the difference between a respectable easter and a disastrous one. the only consolation is that my legs did turn up eventually, and that with better preparation I can still run ok in May.

C2 Day 4 - Splits