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Saturday May 11, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering 23:00 [3]
testing out the knee with a very slow jog around O1 after coaching BL
Thursday May 9, 2013 #
7 PM
Football 1:30:00 [3]
Angry Thursday follows Fluoro Tuesday (cos everyone's used up all their bright clothes on Tues, only blues and blacks are left in the drawers!).
A bit of a meh training. Til we played Reserves for the last 30mins. Ended up marking Mira in central mid - we're quite possibly the two fittest in the club, so ended up running ourselves into the ground trying to get away from one another! Helped by the fact that as fitness training, every time the ball went out of play, it would come back in via one of the keepers - inevitably the one furthest from where you are on the pitch!
A bit of a meh training. Til we played Reserves for the last 30mins. Ended up marking Mira in central mid - we're quite possibly the two fittest in the club, so ended up running ourselves into the ground trying to get away from one another! Helped by the fact that as fitness training, every time the ball went out of play, it would come back in via one of the keepers - inevitably the one furthest from where you are on the pitch!
biking (commute) 30:00 [3]
Frustrated with my lack of getting out this week, I decided to bike to training and home...and then I ran over some broken glass on Northbourne in the dark. 1 ride, 1 puncture. Atleast I made it home before the tire deflated entirely!
Wednesday May 8, 2013 #
Note
(rest day)
what a fail of a day.
Failed to meet up with Rohan about blue lightning
Failed to check out the venue for ANUWFC midseason
Failed to book my flights (thanks webjet for wasting an hour of my evening)
Failed to get bella (the dog) more then 50m from the house for a run
(hence Failed to go for a run).
So let's just call it a rest day. Here's hoping for an improvement tomorrow.
On the bright side, I learnt about Capoeira. Cross Training anyone?
Failed to meet up with Rohan about blue lightning
Failed to check out the venue for ANUWFC midseason
Failed to book my flights (thanks webjet for wasting an hour of my evening)
Failed to get bella (the dog) more then 50m from the house for a run
(hence Failed to go for a run).
So let's just call it a rest day. Here's hoping for an improvement tomorrow.
On the bright side, I learnt about Capoeira. Cross Training anyone?
Tuesday May 7, 2013 #
6 PM
Football 1:10:00 [2]
blah.
Our club has instigated Fluoro Tuesday trainings. Good fun, and brightens up the cold evenings :)
https://twitter.com/Doc_UDog/status/33174284476103...
Our club has instigated Fluoro Tuesday trainings. Good fun, and brightens up the cold evenings :)
https://twitter.com/Doc_UDog/status/33174284476103...
Monday May 6, 2013 #
Note
Physio this morning to check up on the knee. Pain on straightening it out and putting weight through it. What the physio termed 'fat-pad-itis'. Nice. Just the fat layer swollen and getting pinched. the usual - ice, anti-inflamms etc. Hopefully will clear up quickly. (not encouraged when i was told sprinting, agility, and hill running could aggravate it...what else does he think my training includes?!)
6 PM
Orienteering 43:30 [3] 9.1 km (4:47 / km)
Got myself out to street-o as a warmdown from the weekend. Always good fun. Rushed off at the start as everyone else had a minute to look at the map, but being a little late I didn't. So definitely a sub-par route, but oh well! A bit fast for a recovery run, couldn't repress my natural competitiveness!
Sunday May 5, 2013 #
10 AM
Orienteering 1:07:58 [5]
http://ogang.org/doma/show_map.php?user=lizziei&ma...
Having watched (as did everyone else it seems :) the thermometer in the car hold steady on 1degree as we reached Boboyon, it was a tough decision to ditch the thermal at the start line. But given the clouds were giving way to sunshine it was definitely the right decision - even if it took until no.5 for me to get any feeling in my hands!
Long leg to number one I looked to stay out of the rocks and fallen logs, staying in the open stuff for as much as possible, where it was clean fast running. No.2 was a tricky little termite mound, hiding behind some rocks, felt I slowed down just as much as I needed to though, hitting it cleanly aside from being on the wrong side of the rocks at the end. Up and over the bare rock to 3, where I met Kathryn coming into the control from the other side. Surprised to see her already, but put it sstraight out of mind and continued on.
Should have been more decisive on 4 and go down and around earlier. But decided to see what the vegetation was like - thick enough that I didn't want to bash through and lose track of where I was. So I dropped height and skirted around. Hit the control a bit high in the end, allowing Kathryn to punch ahead of me.
5 was good fun, stretching the legs out and picking the path of least resistance through the marshes and rocks. Had literally just thought "where's this ruined fence" heading into the forest, when wham, I tripped over it! Quipped to Kathryn that I'd found the fence - whereby she promptly tripped over it too. Too high on 6, which was slow, picking through logs and rocks.
Then clean through to 9, which was lower down the gully than marked. Exit direction off on 11, attempting to take the wrong gully, but quickly put right. Similar to 4, on 12 I kept trying to cut through the bush, only to find it too thick, and having to keep coming back out to the open. Should have just stayed out there the whole leg. Gel and icy water at 12 and on to the last loop.
Lost track of my direction a bit on 13, so lost time being hesitant, but in the end the control was sitting there yelling out to us anyway. Was looking out for the fence to relocate off as I went - but missed it...somehow...apparently it was head high?! Out to the track and around on 14, again coming in early and bailing back out. Silly!
Looking at splits, at this point I'm only 30s off the top junior boys, which I'm over the moon about! I lost maybe a minute on 16, as I lost track of my progress in the last third, ending up on a termie in a vague gully. Quickly decided to cut out to the track to relocate, up over the edge of the gully, and there was the control! Lucky!
Back to the pivot for the final time, and onto the penultimate control. Through the saddle, but then was a bit silly and misinterpreted the hills, so went around a bonus hill and down the grassy gully, having to duck into the rocks and forest when it got too tussocky. Apparently the way I had intended to go had a nice track worn down it - so 30-60 gone on the leg, which dropped me further back behind the top M20's and meant Kathryn was still with me at the 2nd to last.
Loved the fact that despite being in full view of the finish, we had to navigate to the last control. I didn't really do it well, but knew I'd had a very good run, so eased off :)
A really fun race. Really had to optimize your route through the dead branches and rocks and conserve energy. Speed control important as ever in this terrain, and happy to see my legs are still strong despite a patchy month since Easter!
Had to bail off before prize giving, but won a compass for each win over the weekend. Pretty much own a life time's supply of compasses now (all be it those wrist strap ones!)
Having watched (as did everyone else it seems :) the thermometer in the car hold steady on 1degree as we reached Boboyon, it was a tough decision to ditch the thermal at the start line. But given the clouds were giving way to sunshine it was definitely the right decision - even if it took until no.5 for me to get any feeling in my hands!
Long leg to number one I looked to stay out of the rocks and fallen logs, staying in the open stuff for as much as possible, where it was clean fast running. No.2 was a tricky little termite mound, hiding behind some rocks, felt I slowed down just as much as I needed to though, hitting it cleanly aside from being on the wrong side of the rocks at the end. Up and over the bare rock to 3, where I met Kathryn coming into the control from the other side. Surprised to see her already, but put it sstraight out of mind and continued on.
Should have been more decisive on 4 and go down and around earlier. But decided to see what the vegetation was like - thick enough that I didn't want to bash through and lose track of where I was. So I dropped height and skirted around. Hit the control a bit high in the end, allowing Kathryn to punch ahead of me.
5 was good fun, stretching the legs out and picking the path of least resistance through the marshes and rocks. Had literally just thought "where's this ruined fence" heading into the forest, when wham, I tripped over it! Quipped to Kathryn that I'd found the fence - whereby she promptly tripped over it too. Too high on 6, which was slow, picking through logs and rocks.
Then clean through to 9, which was lower down the gully than marked. Exit direction off on 11, attempting to take the wrong gully, but quickly put right. Similar to 4, on 12 I kept trying to cut through the bush, only to find it too thick, and having to keep coming back out to the open. Should have just stayed out there the whole leg. Gel and icy water at 12 and on to the last loop.
Lost track of my direction a bit on 13, so lost time being hesitant, but in the end the control was sitting there yelling out to us anyway. Was looking out for the fence to relocate off as I went - but missed it...somehow...apparently it was head high?! Out to the track and around on 14, again coming in early and bailing back out. Silly!
Looking at splits, at this point I'm only 30s off the top junior boys, which I'm over the moon about! I lost maybe a minute on 16, as I lost track of my progress in the last third, ending up on a termie in a vague gully. Quickly decided to cut out to the track to relocate, up over the edge of the gully, and there was the control! Lucky!
Back to the pivot for the final time, and onto the penultimate control. Through the saddle, but then was a bit silly and misinterpreted the hills, so went around a bonus hill and down the grassy gully, having to duck into the rocks and forest when it got too tussocky. Apparently the way I had intended to go had a nice track worn down it - so 30-60 gone on the leg, which dropped me further back behind the top M20's and meant Kathryn was still with me at the 2nd to last.
Loved the fact that despite being in full view of the finish, we had to navigate to the last control. I didn't really do it well, but knew I'd had a very good run, so eased off :)
A really fun race. Really had to optimize your route through the dead branches and rocks and conserve energy. Speed control important as ever in this terrain, and happy to see my legs are still strong despite a patchy month since Easter!
Had to bail off before prize giving, but won a compass for each win over the weekend. Pretty much own a life time's supply of compasses now (all be it those wrist strap ones!)
Running warm up/down 10:00 [3]
had to. to stay warm!
2 PM
Football 45:00 [4]
Made it to Kambah well in time for kickoff at 2. But had told the coach I was racing beforehand, so was on the bench. I hate being on the bench.