Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Terrain run in the macrocarpa strip <3

Orienteering on watchtower Wanda. Nice variations in the terrain. The macro strip is still.my fave. Got stuck in some shitty bits but overall I'll call it nice. Navy wasn't super impressive (could have avoided half the shitty bits)

Stopped at Knottingly on the way down to waitarere for the weekend. Had an old scanned map from dad. Atleast 26yrs old, but the contours were pretty good, and given the lifespan of nz radiatus pine, the vegetation and runability was pretty spot on too. Main annoyance was that secular variation has seen a bit of a change in mag N over the last 30yrs!
Lovely forest, and my first forest o of the year. Area definitely deserves a remap and some decent use.

C • Where is this place? 5

Another day doing rec obs surveys at swimming spots (aka beach creeping). Was really hobbling all morning thanks to the rogaine. Loosened up throughout the day, but opted against runnig

After work rogaine. After a long day out on the lake sampling, made it to the event 2mins before the start! Luckily OT rogaine start with a briefing and then 5mins planning, so plenty of time! Did not, however, have a pen for plotting my plan, or answering the questions at controls...what a rookie rogainer!
Anyway, the map was 90% urban, and good fun. I set off harder than I meant, and by 1hr was halfway around the controls. Was then a bit worried that I might have to clear the course, but also knew I was going to get slower, and had to get back up the top of the map too.
Made a bit of a mess of my planning on the run, and over extended myself, opting to get the controls in pukekura park in the far north. I knew it was a mistake as I headed off on the loop, but still went for it. Was not helped by some temp construction, which lengthened my route, and really had to push to get back on time. Had to drop 180 easy points (cf the 170 hard earned points on my long loop) but oh well. Training.
Made it back with 20s to spare.

Ended up taking out the running category, and beat 3/4 of the bikers too ;)
Highlight of te evening was probably standing outside a f&c shop for about 1min, trying to read the menu to find out how much a mussel fritter cost. This was topped a couple of mins later when a couple of bikers rode past and said I was making it look easy - to which I replied that I'd just had a break cos it took me ages finding out how much a mussel fritter cost...
....yeah, turns out they were just normal bikers, not bike rogainers. Oops. What a weirdo.

Jog from home 90% on bush trails :D

My 2nd afterwork sprint. More successful than the first, but still the wrong shoes. Sprint was around NPBHS, but they took delight in setting legs up and down all of the very steep mid-level green banks, which were just too long to bother running around...
Good fun. And I beat Karl ;)

Jog out at Back Beach. Surf spectating

Ran the lonely mtn sprint around the cemetery and WITT. Took it in 4 goes with intervals of 4-6min, 1min jog between.