Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Error riddled run. Like everyone else today i'm sure, but still. Started off ok, taking #1 careful although the spur turned out to be way nore obvious than i expected. Direction a little off on 2, and took 4 way too defensively, but so far ok enough. Recognised the danger heading into 6 but obvs not enough, or i misjudged the features where i entered thw green, as i managed to pop out by the track on the otherside rather than at the control...hmmm. painstakingly walked back in and found the control , and silje who started 1.5 back.
Bumbled to 7, then opted up to the track to 8. Thought it would be both cleaner and safer than straight, but apparently not. I struggled to match the veg, and almist thought id overshot a mile when i foubd an unmapped stream. But saw silje heading direct to the control, which saved further time loss.
Stuck with til 10, but then i managed to cross the ride without spottibg it and only hauled myself up well below the control perhaps thats what led me to be reckless to 12 thru the green. I thought id nailed it too, found a beauty of a rock, but no flag. While silje and ava (3min) headed up, i headed down. Tryibg to go off the veg, whhich was a bad idea as i couldnt match it and the map at all. Circled back to my sweet as rock a 2nd time and decided to try up the hill this time. Found rock #2. No flag. Spotted flash of orange thru branches. Wooooo!
Hopped on a boys train down the hill thru green stripes, running thru the holes they left in the rubbish ;) mistook a control minder having a nap by a tree for a dead body on the way to 16. Was sloppy into the control and was super surprised to see silje again. Thought shed left me for dead at 12!!
Down to the pointless media control, then died going back up the hill to 20, by which time i was a bit over it tbh. Silje and the russian (4.5min) smashed me up the hill, yet both appeared out of the green behind me at 21...along with ava. Seriously, what was going on out there?!?!
Enjoyed the 4 way race to the finish atleast. Tho thought the last control was meant to be in the gully, not on the track???

So yeh. Didnt look at the results til i got home. One of those days where its bnot worth worrying about the result. 44th for the record. Rough couple of weeks, i'm not in the mental form atm to be fightibg for higher spots. It'll come again though, just gotta ride out the rough patch.

Cruised the polish test race from a couple of weeks ago. Bit green. Bit sticky. Bit rocky. Nice enough though.
Also, sunny AND double digit temps. :) :)

To venas. Ostfold Sprint from last week (13:30). Home

Had a mat to myself for the first time in ages. It sucked. No one to sing the songs with.

Checking controls for the Long. A lot of faffing on my part. Jacket off. Gloves off. Gloves back on. Toilet stop. etc etc.

Happy to not be racing today, probably would have faffed around just as much on the actual course.