Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Last day. Everyone is smashed. We got slower and starting making mistakes, so made the executive decision to cut the line short.
All in all we measured a 3950m ERT/IP line up and over a massive hill, through steep and rough forest, a couple of more-than-steep stream gullies, a fair bit of jungle, a farm where the farmer seemed to be chasing us with his combined harvester (starting cutting the grass before we were even out of the fields). Never measured but would estimate I hiked 12-18km a day up and down the line, often with some kind of equipment to carry (one cable and reel is 25kg and we had 10 of them down at any one time, and 6 to move between measurements. I tried to leave the heaviest work to the guys, but that's not always possible)

12.5hrs

11.5hrs. Getting tired.

14hr day in the field today. Thanks to a farmer coming to us at 6pm and saying he was going to cut the grass in the fields out cables were nicely laid out in.

Fieldwork.
5 hours mobilisation and 9hrs of cable hauling etc etc.

Sunday funday at the empty gym. Decent steady effort on the ellipse. Was going for 75 but tendon at the bag of the ankle started twinging at 67.
Shame really, I'd only seen this one Amcar with two middle aged blokes blasting out music of it cruise by 9 times by then. Was hoping for double digits!