Training Log Archive: Mess Engineer

Still sore and tired from Sunday.
Therefore didn't push hard and this included occasional walking.

Helped out at the Finish Desk handing people their blocks rather than going straight home.

Course Long - Splits

Disposed of two unwanted mountain bikes at Newcastle Uni bike 'recycle shop' yesterday.
One womans bike which hasn't been ridden in probably 10 years and my original bike from Whyalla 20 years ago.
I still have one mountain bike left.

Today I pumped up tyres on my twin brothers "hand me down" racing bike so will give that a ride sometime this week.
I imagine the skinny tyres and light weight will make a huge difference to the rolling resistance.

9 am - 9:45 am
Front nature strip.
Cutting down a little forest of multiple dead trees and then digging the stumps out.

9:52 am - 10:36 am
Round 2 of cleaning shed gutters.
Swept off the flat roof into the gutters and then picked it all up into bags.
7 grocery bags full.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
10 litres of weed spraying from house along driveway to rear shed.

Time fill around Raymond Terrace between hardware and food shopping.

Event: Lane Cove Rivergaine 2
 

Lane Cove Rivergaine II.
With a friend Nicolle (who has never done a Rogaine before) and Coady http://attackpoint.org/log.jsp/user_10513
Camelbak packed with ice water and hydrolite powder, snacks and gels ready.

From Orienteering

Arrived at 8:30 am. Got a park basically directly opposite the start!
I taped up my ankles (which is a first) rather than attempting to run for 6 hours in heavy ankle guards and this worked very well. Could feel the extra support especially a few times with small ankle rolls out on tracks.
My longest run in over a year and I was pleasantly surprised how I held up.

Also my first experience today taking running gels ... some of which were very appetising. Refilled 2 litre camelback twice so went through more than 5 litres of water. Glad it was only 28 degrees rather than 40 degrees like on Thursday!

No. Control, Total
01.   #041, 40
02.   #092, 130
03.   #081, 210
04.   #090, 300
05.   #020, 320
06.   #100, 420
07.   #021, 440
08.   #061, 500
09.   #031, 530
10.   #080, 610
11.   #022, 630
12.   #071, 700
13.   #091, 790
14.   #072, 860
15.   #062, 920
16.   #042, 960
17.   #095, 1050
18.   #032, 1080
19.   #083, 1160
20.   #033, 1190
21.   #066, 1250
22.   #073, 1320
23.   #102, 1420
24.   #045, 1460
25.   #064, 1520
26.   #086, 1600
27.   #040, 1640
28.   #046, 1780
29.   #084, 1760
30.   #053, 1810
31.   #067, 1870
32.   #093, 1960
33.   #052, 2010
34.   #024, 2030
35.   #065, 2090
36.   #082, 2170
37.   #025, 2190
38.   #027, 2210
39.   #026, 2230
40.   #043, 2270
41.   #051, 2320
42.   #060, 2380
43.   #023, 2400
44.   #034, 2430

So visited 44 of the 53 controls (83.0%) and got 2430 or the 3050 points available (79.6%).
Came 4th in the Mixed Team Category. Came 23rd overall.

Missed controls

01. #070, 70
02. #030, 100
03. #085, 180
04. #101, 280
05. #050, 330
06. #063, 390
07. #094, 480
08. #103, 580
09. #044, 620

Stopped for a 20 minute lunch and planning break just prior to Control #32.
Stopped for icecreams from Shop just after Control #40.

First hour
Approx 6 km. Up to Control #61 (500 points)

Second hour
Approx 12 km. Up to Control #42 (960 points)

Third Hour
Approx 17 km. Up to Control #66 (1250 points due to lunch)

After that I lost my piece of paper I was recording on!

All of our respective watches / phones recorded differing distances between 29 and 34.5 km. I included my recorded distance.

Team of 3 functioned well as all carrying injuries. We all seemed to take turns motivating the others to jog versus run. Coady and Nicolle pushed me harder in the last hour and included a detour to get #51, #60 and #34 which I probably wouldn't have bothered with if solo as I was tired. So thanks to both of them for that.


NOTE TO FUTURE SELF :
If > 3 hours take the 3 litre camelbak!!

C • Some guy?? 3

Time fill prior to class