Training Log Archive: Milo

Moulting Bay - Humbug Pt - Grannys Gut - Moulting Bay

4 Flathead
1 Silver Trevally

All too small to keep!

This was meant to be good training for Dubbo, spur gully rock. Imagine Day3 of Easter (Worlds End) with much more vegetation and fallen logs (and about 25 deg cooler). Hard to get any speed up when you are constantly pushing wattle saplings away.

The day was off to a bad omen when I nearkly span off teh road about three times coming through the Fingal valley on the black ice between St marys and Fingal. Then saw the aftermath of a massive stack where someone lost it on the ice near Oatlands and eanded up parking a Falcon up the clifface on teh side of the road.

Going Ok until 3 when I took a compass beaaring (first time this year) from a cairn on a track and then prioceeded to ignore it and ran past the control onto a totally unrealted spur to teh south and almost off the map, ran back to where the small 'spur' should be and couldn't see it. Standing still when Nicko came down the hill and lead me straight into it.

There was no direct routes on this course you had the choice of climb now or climb later. Fence in teh middle of the map was a pretty handy handrail (duh!) as all the spurs looked the same and teh tracks were a bit vague.

Lost the plot at 9 where once again I ran straigh tpast the control. I'm just going to high in this spur-gully terrain at the moment trying to stay out of the green..not left or right just high.

Stopped short of the last control before the finish and lost about 5 mins here before smacking my head on a log which was draped over the rockface. Drew some blood but not as much as Seb by the sounds of it..ouch.. Get well soon mate

This course gets the 'most spectacular finsh location award for 2007'

All in all probably not worth the drive but hey..I'm addicted ...to orienteering!, not driving

Grants Lagoon Beach loop

Weight 84kg

Felt like a fat bastard after not much training for the last 4 weeks and grease for lunch today so made myself go for a run in the dark. Binalong Beach is so peaceful in the dark illuminated by the light of the million dollar shacks.

First MTBO of teh year. Gotta make the most of them ..there are only 4 this year!

Got round the course OK with no major stuff ups.

Abandoned map board after it broke off from 6-7.
8 was a bastard..couldn't carry the bike a walk to the ROAd which was 30m away ..had to back track up a steep skidder track and fang down another one.

Leg from 9-10 was a bit mean..a big climb right near the end of a 25km+ race..

Good day out..A bit pissed off that Paul P beat me by only 12 mins..should'v etried harder!

Liitlechilds Creek.. Awesome course set by the Marshalls in rarely visited part of map..except for Pacque training camps and 2005 Aus Champs, technically cahllenging as well as mentally draining.

Feeling OK to 9 although legs very heavy, navigation good. After nine 'vagued out' and couldn't focus. eye hurting from bogan attack two weeks ago..couldn't see properly

Been told I'm not allowed to use 'vagued out' as a colloquilism as I didn't live in the '60's. Hey man...where were they in the '90's??

Couldn't get my head around this, thinking about course on Monday and news my sister had got engaged.

Highlight of day..Will Whittington stuck in marquee cage.