Training Log Archive: Bomb

long distance easter race. knew it was going to be a long, hot day out, so started fairly conservatively. got through the early part of the course pretty easily and caught Bridget around 5 - 8. decided to take the road option on the second long leg, but cut up a track to the ridge again just after half way, to avoid the nasty climb at the end. I think it was a good option, but I wasn't running fast enough to actually get any advantage on that leg.
made my only real mistake on the leg back down the hill into the small mining detail where I ended up too low on the hill.
struggled back through the last few controls to the finish. very tired, and legs burning with all the prickles.

control collection, including 2 water drops

Easter day 1. fairly un-motivated after our organising day yesterday, but knew that the terrain was really good and hoped the course would match. had an uninspiring start and lost a bit of time early on, particularly on 2, where I was reading too much into the slope between the controls and pulled up early.
trudged along to about 5, where vanessa caught me, and expected her to run away easily, but she was making enough small errors that I stayed with her.
nice run in the end, particularly the last part of the course.

Event: 2012 Easter Orienteering Carnival
 

more running around the event putting out fence crossings and some taping.

had a run around the W21E course to check that everything was ok for the race, and see what time we were likely to come up with later on. I didn't look at the map much (I know the area pretty well now), but ran to a couple of the guys controls as a result.
I figured the girls should run about 2 mins quicker than me (which they nearly did), but was surprise to see how many got caught out by the trickier legs.

was really pleased to see that people enjoyed the event and that we got about the right mix of speed and technical challenge. it was also good to find that other details, such as the spectator hill worked really well and added to the atmosphere of the race.
definitely enjoyed the post race beers!

got to Wilmonts waterholes at about 5 and ran around all the controls for the sprint to check everything was good for tomorrow. (after Mark had spent the whole day putting them all out!).

after a very stressful and busy week it was so nice to cruise around in some very nice forest with the early evening light. could just feel the stress melting away, and all the controls were right, so that helped a lot!

ride to work