Training Log Archive: jennycas

I forgot the golden rule today, and ballsed up the first control by 4 minutes because I wasn't sure of my bearing down the spur and across the creek, then followed various men upstream to their termite mound rather than downstream to mine. Then when I did head in the correct direction I stopped short, misreading the vegetation, even though I saw Zoe (2 min) heading in the right direction, it didn't look right to me and so I went back to the control I'd just been at! Bit slow on the uptake, am I...

Also a bit slow in the legs; it wasn't a good hamstring day and so I couldn't seem to lift my legs over anything, and kept tripping on the tussocky grass. Very slow through the first few rocky controls (also it took me about a week to unfold my 1: 10 000 map to punch manually at the first of the 'failed' units) and decided to go fairly straight on the long leg through the middle, and down the correct spur, which wasn't a given. Shannon came through me just before the control and she poured me a drink there, which was very kind. I think we were both glad of each other's presence when we saw the weird stuffed shirts hanging in the trees!

Very slow across the up-and-down hillsides to 8, but really this course didn't have much climb and once I'd done the long leg to 9 the rest just required very careful bearings. Not sure about the positioning of the termite mound at 10, but at least I saw other people heading for it. And the tail of the course was fine, plus mostly downhill.

Day 2 Course 2 - Splits

It's quite a while since I've run in Sydney sandstone and I was expecting to struggle with interpreting the detail, but had remembered the golden rule of being careful with your bearings particularly across bland hilltops. Set off to 1 slightly too far left but at least I knew I was, down the spur to 2, a couple of ridiculously short & easy legs to 3 & 4, back across the spur to 5, turn and run up the hill to a termite mound with the flag on its approach side, across the spur to 7 which a few people had trouble with but I dropped into the little gully okay, across the spur to 8 which boulder I spotted easily, a ridiculously short easy leg to 9, across the spur to 10 which I was one tiny gully too low for (I think I used some unmapped bare rock as my attack point) and then the fun was over.

A long leg north straight down the spur hardly needing to navigate until crossing the river, a few control-picking legs to the spectator control, a few moderate-standard legs to the finish. So basically the second half of the course really wasn't WRE-standard navigation. The men and the older age groups got into the rock a bit more and I can see more than one control which could easily have been used to make the women's course more interesting. Presumably we'll get more rock tomorrow; I should be careful what I wish for!

Course 2 day1 - Splits

Event: Easter 2014
 

Bush sprint on Rylstone Common. Off to a slow start and hesitated halfway on the first until I was sure which of the rocks I was seeing were where, so Laurina came through me at 3, but I kept seeing her for a while because both of us had a bearing too far right on 4 (went past 6). The only other real time loss was on 14 where I was too wide and saw a control on a boulder, which I took to be my #16, NE of 14, when actually it was another rock SW of 14. Although that probably wasn't even a minute lost it felt like more - I would have liked to get in under 20. And to have been a bit higher up than the equivalent of outside the top 10 in junior girls!

C • lauren 2

Frantic scramble to leave work in time to catch a 6:45pm plane and I felt like I left so much unfinished...it's just that everything seems to be taking longer now in EPAS-land.

Have been trying to remember to use the core muscles on that side, but I can really tell that my left arm does nothing in particular. Nice morning for a splash :)

C • Easter 2

Attack of the Killer Masseuse.
Just back; no time for legs. Over the last few weeks I'm getting a horrible crunching feeling in my tailbone when I sit for too long which isn't cool.
Apparently my undies were on inside out - whoops!

C • Can't recommend 2

Getting sick of
a) waking up too stiff in the midsection to even contemplate running at that time
b) staying back too late at work to get a run in daylight....I had every intention of going to North Adelaide but didn't leave work until 7:20pm and was consequently late for OSA meeting - had no idea that there was any such thing as part of a lunar eclipse :(

Head-clearing run around Hawthorndene with B&S, the newlydad, and the dadtobe (after which I was late for Easter 2015 meeting).