Training Log Archive: Lizzie

had to rush the 1.7 km to the start as i had first start and we were later to arrive than i wanted to be...so wasnt as mentally prepared for starting as i like to be

spiked no1 and 2. but then on 3 navigated perfectly into the control, and simply didnt see the control (we have established red kiwi's controls are a teh colour of sunlight on pine needles). so relocated off the clearing and came back to exactly the same spot, where i saw the control this time garr! 2.5 mins gone like that. then was real slow and tired through the back part of the course in softer sand. few dodge route choices at the end didnt help either.
just need to get my head screwed on straight, and look around more in the circle!

C • Early 2

Event: JWOC Trials & SuperSeries Round 1, Part2
 

the worst run ive had in a sprint race in a long time (not incl last sat). Just didn't quite get my head into things. got caught by an uncrossable fence at 2, misread the corners at 5, overshot the gap going to 7 and messed up the routechoice to 13. A pretty average course and a very average run

quite a crack up seeing everyone do dynamic stretching for the first time after carsten's talk the day before :)

going backwards. much cleaner than yday, on 8 anyway

was teamed up with Matt who hadnt done too much orienteering before. did real well though, apart from 1st control where he and duncan put the control in the wrong depression!
my nav was a bit scratchy, and i really had trouble spotting the control once i was in the circle, even though it was a fluoro yellow vest!

real good exercise. went into some pretty complex terrain with heaps of little reentrants, hills and depressions. was pretty smooth through to 9, where i forgot i was looking for a formline feature rather than a full contour. and 10 where i misread my simplified map, looking for a spur rather than a reentrant. was sweet when i realised what id drawn though.

happy with that exercise :)

bit slower than this morning, getting a bit tired. stopped to talk with some of the junior girls after the green patches. then continued around the 2nd half, which i wasn't so clean in.
so much cutty grass! absolutely mauled my legs running in shorts :s

real tricky 1km course with lots of sharp corners, short legs. was doing well for the most part, reading the map pretty well. but then got pulled right on 8 and got stuck on the wrong hill for a bit. was leading until then, but got to keep the concentration going!

in northern end of pukepuke. couple of my bearings were off, but aside from that pretty happy. man the boys are faster through the undergrowth though!

With Laura.
got the feeling i found this harder than she did?
good exercise, although perhaps not the hardest terrain for it, further south on the map would have been better. Also, when you're following your partner you have all the time in the world to take in all around you, where as in a race you usually get lost because you're taking too much time reading ahead on your map and not looking at where you are at the time.

Got numbers 1 and 2 sweet as. But then i caught Amber up... something I've noticed i def need to work on is keeping to my own race when i catch someone up. On a number of occasions ive struggled to continue past someone once ive caught them and that was the case here. on3 i was reading the map fine, and knew i was too short, knew exactly where i was, but still let myself get lead astray by Amber stopping and looking for the control early!? the brain is a funny thing...
4, we both got pulled too far right. and 5 i got pulled right again. so finished just behind Amber in the end.

course on smedley. Started off with imogene as we were gonna do the route choice 1-2. She went up to the road while i contoured and climbed and scrambled to the left...which wasnt actually that bad, except having to cross a stream gully. still her route was decidedly faster.
Made a mess of no.6, then map was abit dodge aroudn7, and route choice to 8 wasnt the best. After that was alright.
legs were feeling pretty good considering the weekend of races. so when we got to 14 Imogene and I decided to do the entire course, (about 10k all up). so glad we did, the nicest bit was at the far end of the course! We agreed on route choice on most legs, and on others i found it real good to see how someone else viewed the leg. Also interesting to notice that as we both got tired towards the end, we stopped planning ahead and were making decisions once we got to the control.

felt so good for doing the entire course, hope Imogene wasnt sick of me by the end of it :)

All up pretty happy with the weekend, an awesome set of events, chur Kate, Duncan and Ross.
given that i've been ticking over with training since world games, and not really focussing on anything in particular, i cant complain bout results. saturday night's hiccup aside, i was pretty consistent, and overall the only effect sat night had on the overall standing was that i had to fight georgia off for 3rd rather than have it comfortably.
awesome to see Georgia and Angela have picked up the pace. gives me plenty of motivation for training leading up to nats :) Some real good results from the wellington group too, good to see Laura's consistent results. And who knew Tessa was such a green singlet specialist :P (sorry i stole third off you Tessa, i still don't know how they calculated that with my 2min finish split on saturday!)

Didnt want to push it after last night's experience, but luckily it was another intricate building map at EIT, so lots of map reading and decision making again. Had a pretty smooth run with only a couple of hiccups. tried my best to go 5-7, but caught myself :)

yeah, looking at splits nothing spectacularly fast on any one leg, just consistent throughout the course, which is exactly what it felt like. nice confidence boost after last night.

10 warmup
10 down
10 control collecting

A faster map to finish off with. started off through the buildings. found i was almost reading ahead too much, and forgetting which corners i should be taking at the time.
Bit annoyed at 5-6, where the course line wasn't broken, and half covered up the best route choice. I saw the fence under the line, but couldnt tell if it was uncrossable or not, so took the safer option around, losing bout 20s.
then had fast legs around the fields, glad the controls were in the hedges, which made you have to think rather than them just being running legs.
managed to hold off georgia, just!

15 up
15 down
and stretches