Training Log Archive: Golfer

Waggaroos training weekend at Beechworth. Placing controls at Mt Pilot for tomorrow's exercise. Unfortunately, regrowth after fires some years back was very heavy so decided to cut it short. Also decided to move this afternoon's exercises to The Gorge. A relocation drill when you can't see anything probably wouldn't work that well!

Waggaroos training weekend: relocation exercises in small groups in The Gorge at Beechworth. I worked with our least experienced group, so we just walked and talked a lot about reading the terrain and maintaining map contact. I think they all got something out of it.

We also placed our control for the American Pie relay.

Very warm and we were keen to get back and have a swim at La Trobe so we did a variation on the American Pie relay, with each group starting together but on a different control (only 4 in total). My group didn't win but we weren't last either - good fun!

Back to La Trobe at Beechworth for a swim and then some social time and dinner before the Night O!

I had the notebook and a projector so I showed a few training related items on route choice and course setting. In keeping with the "relocation" theme, I showed the GPS animation of Rob Preston's infamous run at last years QLD champs! Went down very well and just emphasised that even the elite make mistakes, sometime BIG ones :-)

Night O around La Trobe Beechworth campus on the 2003 Aust Sprint map. Great course and although we have used it before, it can still be difficult at night. Managed a king-sized stuff up going from 9 to 10, via 12 and 11!

Summer Series at Glenfield. Nicely planned course. This is a good street map - all credit to the town planner, not the mapper (me!) :-) with lots of lanes, parks, cul de sacs and bendy streets to aid (confuse?) route choice. Managed to get all but 4 controls (3 x 5 and 1 x 10 pts) so ended up tying with Briohny on 200pts. Nice to run around the old home suburb again - only get out here once a year now, for the Summer Series.

A bit of variety today. Briohny's and I ran from her house up onto Willan's Hill and then did all the exercise stations (26 in all), jogging in between, then ran back home.

Good at hurdles (very low!), leap frog and tyre scrambles, OK at push-ups and sit-ups, very ordinary at chin-ups and rope (steel pipe actually) climbing but all good fun and not to strenuous on a smokey, 33C afternoon.

Mapping today