Training Log Archive: O-ing

Event: NSW State League #6 - NSW Long Distance Championships
 

Gumble Pinnacles, Long, 5.1km/190m, 2nd. Another opportunity missed. Gave away 3 minutes on the easy second control and finished 1:14 down. Top 4 M55s all within 2 minutes; surprising on such a difficult course.
OK, looking at the splits this was worse than I thought. Absolutely basic failure on 2: did not look at compass and went the entirely wrong direction. Lost 3 minutes there. A 1:30 miss on 11 was the other costly mistake.
Interesting that Russell B and Ian Prosser were the ones battling for and sharing the lead up till no. 8, more than halfway around. I was still in 4th at 10, and fell further behind at 11, but recovered to pass them both. Rob Vincent was much faster than all of us, but two made big blunders - 3 minutes on 12 and around 4 minutes nearly skipping 3.

Hard 5 - Splits

Event: NSW State League #5 - Rocky Falls
 

Rocky Gully, M55, 2nd. Pretty clean race, went a bit wide on a couple - 3:31 minutes down on Rob Vincent.
Splits show the difference was just running speed. I had no mistakes of any significance and a pretty constant slope on the graph (slight misses on 5,6,8). Maybe I should have warmed up? Or maybe I subconsciously ran a bit slower given I fractured my foot here last time?

VE shadowing Aoife. Pulled her up once, but got the "shadows don't talk"

Hard 5 - Splits

Lane Cove. Got in before the rain. Running OK, the cold doesn't seem to have taken up residence (sniffly since the weekend). L knee and R hammy still a bit niggly (have been since Xmas 5 days) but no impediment at this stage.

Inc Scooters 110 (60,50) on 1.5 springs.