Training Log Archive: Milo

Smashed the easy course, but then realised I had taken the wrong map! 935 instead of 955! I may need glasses! Convinced myself all legs were easy on the 9xx series after seeing the young kids smash out some quick times. Went out and did the proper ‘hard’ map but had no legs left. Focussing in all the tracks we created over the hills. Anyway proved the selectors right!

Aim was to not make any major errors. Which I didn’t..and also to beat Blair. Which I didn’t..3mins. Blair needs to drink more beers.

Course 5 - Splits

Event: Oceania 2019
 

Too bloody slow over the hill. Ran past the control misreading the scale. Fail. Thought the course was unfair for including a massive hill in a sprint favouring the fit people. All round not a great course for a championship event. Started ok but 3 had “on top of” description. All the controls on high bridges. Not fun.

Course 4 - Splits

Can’t say I am happy about being booted to a mixed relay team. Might give Wagga a miss.

C • Long Distance 2

Made the ONSW M45 4ths relay team!

C • Relays 2

A bit stop-starty as forgot to take control descriptions and had to constantly unfold map. Ran straight past control on bridge as couldn’t see it. Description didn’t make sense and ended up crossing bridge road twice in dicey traffic. Enjoyed the track sections. Not so much the road sections. Top area of Sydney. I would like a house here with a garage overlooking the water for our next house.

Birthday-O at Blackman Park which turned into bit of an epic. Punched wrong control at 8 after heading up one track junction early. Took the over the hill option 9-10.

The Mazda nearly got shaken apart on the corrugations getting to this event. Great course with long vague legs. 1-2 took the sub-optimal left option swamp hopping to avoid a boring up down up track which was probably faster but certainly not as interesting. Probably cost me 10 mins as I started heading down an east facing slope but realised and turned 90 deg to hit the control about 200m away. No catching feature here and lost count of the swamps I had crossed. 3-4 was another long leg of equal distance but took me half as long. Then got in the groove but very slow. Could not outsprint Bushflyers guy who was walking at the control before in the finish chute. Enjoyed this.Miya took me on her imaginary hard course after this with navigation dictated by a sheep leg bone.