Training Log Archive: Craig

Training on the Northern part of Frazzle. Did a relocation exercise with Oliver first. Oliver was pretty quick relocating but got a little lost when leading on the last leg. Followed that with a short control picking loop. I gave Oliver a couple of minutes start then spent another minute or two re-positioning the first control. Caught up to Oliver heading to number 7 and he was approaching a bit slowly so I accelerated past him, rushed out of the control in the wrong direction and let him back past while I did a bit more relocation practice.

I wanted to do a bit more distance and Cameron had done the relocation course by himself so I took him out for another loop to try to get him lost. Never really got contact with the map setting out so after a while I stopped next to a distinctive rock so we could both try to relocate. Cameron worked it out first and I just confirmed he was right. Got to the second relocation point and realised I hadn't started my gps. A bit annoying because the main reason I was doing it was to clock up a few more km. Took Cameron a bit longer to relocate than Oliver was but I was trying to make it harder for him.

Night scatter event organised by Richard & Nicole. I wanted to just jog around this so let Sten, Cameron & Oliver run off ahead at the start but I somehow got to the first control ahead of them and then got drawn into a bit of a race. Still kept it pretty easy letting Sten run ahead on the next few downhill legs and catching up at the controls. Ran right past 113 in the rocks without seeing it but nobody else saw it either and I ended up getting it first. Probably started going a little harder after this and started to get a little gap by 107. Through 105 I was definitely starting to race a little to try to get clear and Sten decided to do 106 before 115 just to make it more interesting than following me so I was soon on my own. I think I had a bit of an advantage once on my own as my headlamp was significantly brighter. Saw Cameron as I was running away from 108 towards 106 so knew I had a good gap on him. Tried not to run too hard but kept it fairly solid to make it hard for them to catch up. Nearly missed 110 as I ran up the creek past it before checking the descriptions and seeing it was on the fence.