Training Log Archive: macey

Event: Newcastle Park Orienteering Series Final - Tighes Hill TAFE
 

Park o final at Islington TAFE. Legs a bit tired from yesterday. Started out alright but faded so much towards the end. A very fast easy course so a bit of a shame that I couldn't open right up. Managed to win only my 2nd ever park tour!

Course Long - Splits

1 lap warm up, 1 lap warm down.

Maitland parkrun. On my own from start to finish. Reasonable run actually, faded a lot in the second half but a decent time for Walka.

Checking control sites and updating map at Pelaw Main with Scott. Very slow early on with map corrections and also finding some of my control sites no longer exist or aren't very good. 2nd half much quicker. Ended up being over 4 hours, only logged moving time.

10 x 1 min on, 1 min off. 5 min warm up, 5 down. Probably should do more running.

Event: Newcastle Park Orienteering Series - King Edward Park
 

Various running around before my event. Took me 2 hours to put out controls which was surprising. Lots of time fiddling with locks

Ran my course. Pretty easy for me knowing where everything was but I purposely took some hillier route choices. Struggled later in the course though. Also I forgot to have lunch so that wouldn't have helped.

Comparing my printed splits to everyone else's, a few interesting things to note:
3-4, I went right down the stairs for 2:31, Steve did 2:26. I thought left would be slightly quicker but not too far left. Right was good if you could pull it off.

4-5 I went left, back down and up past the bare rock for 1:21. Best was 1:23. Again left good if you could pull off the climb, otherwise right probably faster.

6-7 Left was slightly shorter.

Steve quicker than me on controls 8 through to 10.

Steve 10 secs quicker to 19 ( I was struggling)

A few other splits I didn't get. 20mins a good winning time. Happy with the difference in people splits on certain legs ;)

C • good 3

Includes a good 20min of cycling