Training Log Archive: grilla

Event: ACT Midweek Series: Remembrance Park (World Orienteering Day)
 

Logistical success, finishing 1 meeting in the car while Eoin drove out to the event, where I had a 1 hour window before the afternoon meetings recommenced. Made it with a couple of minutes to spare - helped by not having to draw our own maps today :) Also quite nice as finished the first session of the afternoon early - before we even got home again!

Remembrance Park from Mt Ainslie Dr or whatever it might be called. Quite steep and again made the stupid mistake of unnecessarily running up hills (particularly at 4). Got most OK, a bit off to 1, 8, and 11 and was losing energy for the end of the course. Misread map for 15. Eoin steamed past between 11 and 12 and way too fast for me to keep up, or even get a bit of assistance.

Orange 1 - Splits

MTB in Bruce Ridge with Nat. Really enjoyed this ride - good company and the tracks were nice and damp - no where near as slippy as they have been recently. Felt like I could flow around the corners quite well.

Tried to use the dropper post but I just feel unco (even more unco than usual!)

Teams race at Narrabundah Hill. Good fun although I was not navigating well and felt slow with many people running away from me! Only did 1 leg as was manning the cake stall today. Marathon baking effort yesterday. Tally was 3 cakes by me, 1 cake and 1 batch of cookies by Aoife (plus decorating 1 of my cakes). Amazing the number of requests for hot tea, coffee, hot chocolate! A cold, damp, foggy morning. Too bad the fog did not deter my competitors :)

Putting out controls at Cottermouth. Looked to be fun courses, despite some hoopla for the setter at the last minute. Always a pressure situation, finding control locations on morning of event without tapes, fumbling with controls and tying knots! Only missed 1 control, got it pretty quickly once I turned back in the right direction.