Training Log Archive: Lizzie

group of us went out to osgiliath for training. was real good to get back into the forest, first time in ages! mean day all up, and the weather was mint :)

first exercise was contour only. pretty smooth, missed the 2nd control by a bit, and were way more depressions than marked at 3, but i managed somehow! feeling lousy with sickness but managed to shake it off after the contour exercise

10 minutes running time...maybe, about that anyway!
intense star relay, think there were 9 teams. Dave and I came second to Michael and Tim, speedy little guy! but we were handicapped by having the green frog plate rather than a hippo or zebra...was way harder to see amongst the ferns!! so i took the time to build little stands for the plate so that dave couldnt miss froggy :)

70 mins putting out flags for the compass exercise in the green low vis area. was more like relocation exercise for me, as had to stop and make real sure i was putting controls in right place! enjoyed it though, even if the guys did it in bout 30 mins...(thats how much easier it is when youve got flags to look for!)

...so then i got a 15 min lunch break between me finishing and everyone else, before i had to go collect flags back in!

so having collected controls from compass exercise, i was put in with the guys for tennis matches...not cool! was so soo exhausted but only got overtaken once :) unfortunately i didnt pass anyone either haha.

worst was when i started last, had pretty much given up and then rest came sprinting back towards me cos they'd missed the control! ...so i gave it everything to stay ahead of them, only to be foiled by s-rah having put the control (toilet paper) in the wrong depression!
good fun, but i just bout died by the end

biking into and out of osgiliath from waitarere. Noone was shouting out warnings as we went, so i ended up going through a massive puddle :( the other option was to crash into sarah to avoid said puddle, so i probably made the right choice...probably.

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had the stinkest day at uni, my experiments were screwed so thought id work on the thoery, but that didnt work either...my results were eight orders of magnitude out from what they should have been...poos
then found out i didnt have indoor tonight, and that outdoor game on sunday is cancelled.
after all that was feeling pretty stink so wasnt gonna run, but pulled into wilton bush carpark on a spur of the moment thing on way home. ended up running up through flax clearing onto the ridge tops, where it was more than a little windy.
some dumbass mtn bikers had been on the track up too, so it was all muddy and impossible to run well on! stupid bikers, not allowed on those tracks too! met some bikers on the top, but managed to bottle up my rage and say a cheery hello to them, then used that rage to stay ahead of them all the way up the hill muahaha. then back down through the cemetery (told you i wasnt scared of it...)
glad i got out, hopefully tommorrow's a better day at uni!

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Wilton bush in the evening, decided against going through the grave yard in the dark by myself this time...not that im scared, i just decided to take the more undulating tracks cos theyre more interesting...honest! anyways, up to ridgeline and then back past the old rimu. managed to stay on my feet and on the track this week too :)
Then round to mag-dizzles to put training for this weekend on condes. cant wait for saturday!

jogging around mt vic with sarah, checking controls for get to go challenge and finding the ones that the kids had thrown away...we know who you are...
impressed with sarah who climbed bodily into a patch of blackberry to retrieve one control. also with the ingenuity of the kids, hiding the flag inside an old coke box and covering the standard with clumps of grass...that one took us a while to find.

was gonna run in the evening but feeling real shite again with my mystery afternoon/evening sickness :S will get a drs appointment tommorrow. sarah and i agree it must be inverse morning sickness, so in other words, im not pregnant.

Run up kaukau from t-dog's place, with o-gang and special guest dazza. followed by another yummy potluck, though with only 3 flavours of icecream when we were promised four :( Todd looked spiffing in his brand new fluoro pink/cow print head band, stylish and practical!
stopped to try out new playground in khandallah park on way back :D turns out im more unco than the average 7 year old, climbing to top of new rock wall thing and not being able to get down...

(15mins warm up warm down)
playing for the 1st div team again. awesome fun, man the younger girls are good! doubt i was that good at that age. managed to hit the underside of the crossbar from outside the area...again. thats bout the 6th time this season but ah well, i'll save my goals for indoor :P
drew 0-0 but apparently it was knockout so went to penalty shoot out (no extra time thank god!) someone thought it would be a good joke to make me take the first penalty, dont think ive taken one since school days so i duly put it over the bar. (if they'd seen me at training any time this year they'd know i cant shoot!)
so yeah lost on penalties and somehow got a stud mark on my thigh, but a good game all up :)

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