Training Log Archive: fenry

Easy big lap of the lake

Long Distance state champs at Nganga. It started to pour down just before I went out, which was quite nice, no issues with overheating. Really happy with my run, took two dodgy routes on the long legs, losing maybe 2 minutes, but other than that, only a few small misses.

Started off well, hit the first one cleanly then took the high route to 2, adding height and thick vegetation. 3 was a little high but fine, but then made the mistake of going wide to the track to 4. Was clean through the next few, then drifted right to the clearing after 8, losing 10 seconds. Saw Craig leaving 9 so I knew I was doing ok, ran through him when he overshot 10, then clean through 11. Small error at 12, overshooting by 20m or so. Took a good route to the left to 13, but didn't drop down enough so ended up 20m high on the spur. Saw fletch and Komy here, but tried to ignore them and run my own race. Clean through 14 and 15, and ran the most part of 16 well, although checking up on fletch 50m behind me was distracting, and I pulled up short losing maybe 20 seconds. Hit 17 well and didn't see fletch again. 18 went well, but exiting it I dropped down to much and figured I could cut my loss by running the clearing out to the track, but would have been better not to, losing maybe 30 seconds. Hit the rest of the stuff in the rock well. Seeing the long leg through the flat was exciting, but made sure to keep in contact so I could take a good line off the last track, and hit 23 cleanly.
24 and 25 were good, but pulled up early again to 26 and lost another 10 seconds. Finished the rest of the course just before the rain started pouring again,

The course was good, used all my favourite parts of the map, and the weather was perfect as well. Happy with my nav today, no big errors besides route choice, and felt good in the legs. Good final race going in to nationals.

M21A - Splits

Event: WA State Middle/Long Distance Championship Ngangaguringguring
 

Warm up and down with some stretching

State Middle champs at Nganga.

Drifted right on the way to the first, corrected quickly but still lost some time. Went south of the rocks at 2 which looks like a decent route but turned out to be a bit slower. Confused around 3, must have been about 5m from the cliff, but overshot and lost some time. $ was clean, 5 I went straight and would have hit it well, but once I got up the slop on the spur, I saw a clearer section and thought I was on the clearing north of the broad gully. Overshot 8 and drifted right on 9 and 10. lost more time on 12, 13, 16, 17, 18 and 20.

Pretty poor nav, only really hit 6 controls cleanly, but felt strong and moved fast. Hopefully tomorrow will be more my style of course, so I can get a good run in before canberra.

Just got in front of Tomas for the win.

M21A - Splits

Lap of lake monger with 4x(30sec on 30sec off)

Late night run out and back over the two hills west of lake monger. Cracked out the new inov8s, they feel a lot more padded than the old ones, and the studs were ridiculously long

Warm up round reablod, warm down round the stadium

Drills strides and recoveries, walking back to the start line

6x1k on the track. Alternating between 10 and 5k pace. Felt really good, 10k pace were cruisy and 5k pace were tough but doable. times;
3:23
3:07
3:23
3:07
3:22
3:00

C • Damn 9