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Sunday Jun 15, 2008 #
Orienteering race (Jukola) 2:00:02 [4] 13.1 km (9:10 / km) +400m 7:57 / km
shoes: Inov8 Roclites
That. Was. Cool.
3rd leg, night long, as they call it. Started just as the sun was hinting on appearing but headed out with the headtorch anyway cause it was still pretty dark in the forest. Already there were elephant trails everywhere - found them very useful.
It was a good, strong run - nothing outstanding, was probably too hesitant on a lot of the controls, remembering many confused minutes at ORingen 06 and super cautious of checking codes. Only one mistake of note, about 5 minutes at number 4, just stopped reading the detail in the circle and searching the wrong hillside for a little rock encased gully. Apart from that, it was just picking the trail that headed in the right direction and constantly run around the slower runners.
Was really happy with how I felt physically, I never once felt like slowing down or walking which is the first time for me on a course of that lenght.
Great boost for the ego wo pick up 244 places for the team. Was placed 377th (1331 total) for the leg and 32 minutes behind the leader, which Im really happy with. Team came 683rd overall, it was pretty solid runs all round.
Absolute highlight of the year for me (O wise), pretty sure will be back next year - but not the 3AM start leg!
3rd leg, night long, as they call it. Started just as the sun was hinting on appearing but headed out with the headtorch anyway cause it was still pretty dark in the forest. Already there were elephant trails everywhere - found them very useful.
It was a good, strong run - nothing outstanding, was probably too hesitant on a lot of the controls, remembering many confused minutes at ORingen 06 and super cautious of checking codes. Only one mistake of note, about 5 minutes at number 4, just stopped reading the detail in the circle and searching the wrong hillside for a little rock encased gully. Apart from that, it was just picking the trail that headed in the right direction and constantly run around the slower runners.
Was really happy with how I felt physically, I never once felt like slowing down or walking which is the first time for me on a course of that lenght.
Great boost for the ego wo pick up 244 places for the team. Was placed 377th (1331 total) for the leg and 32 minutes behind the leader, which Im really happy with. Team came 683rd overall, it was pretty solid runs all round.
Absolute highlight of the year for me (O wise), pretty sure will be back next year - but not the 3AM start leg!
Running warm up/down 30:00 [2]
Lots of warm up required at 3 in the morning after crawling out of a cosy sleeping bag. Had lots of fun tracking Simons progress on the fancy emit computers.
Wednesday Jun 11, 2008 #
Cycling 1:00:00 [2]
Went for an easy evening ride around Clapham Common. Lots of people out and about - it definately is little Australia over there, heaps of people playing AFL and touch.
Tuesday Jun 10, 2008 #
Running intervals 20:00 [5] 5.87 km (3:24 / km)
ahr:165 max:188 shoes: Saucony Triumphs
Intervals with the running club. 4x5 mins on the grass track with 2 mins recovery.
Splits:
1.44km, (137/171)
1.46km, (167/179)
1.46km, (173/181)
1.51km, (179/188)
Surprised with how I felt. Long crap day at work, tired, bad food all day and rushed to the club rooms and lashing of hay fever to boot - was going to go straight home but forced myself off the train at the right stop.
Then all came good. Pretty tired now, might take it easy for the rest of the week. Pumped for Jukola - Friday can't come soon enough.
Splits:
1.44km, (137/171)
1.46km, (167/179)
1.46km, (173/181)
1.51km, (179/188)
Surprised with how I felt. Long crap day at work, tired, bad food all day and rushed to the club rooms and lashing of hay fever to boot - was going to go straight home but forced myself off the train at the right stop.
Then all came good. Pretty tired now, might take it easy for the rest of the week. Pumped for Jukola - Friday can't come soon enough.
C • Lost 6
Running warm up/down 32:00 [2] 4.3 km (7:27 / km)
shoes: White Asics
Warm up, cool down and recovery.
Cycling 1:00:00 [2]
To and from the club rooms. Was a bit early so went exploring a bit, went back through Wimbledon Common cause it was such a cracker evening.