Yesterday

Yesterday we went out training at Kapino with the focus of the exercise being middle distance race simulation. The map was quite green and had many different route choices that forced you to go through it. I wasn’t feeling too good so I skipped a few controls in the middle of the course. I ran the last few legs in the green and found that some of the tracks were very vague and hard to find and that generally the straight line route through the green was better. I was surprised at how fast you could run through the green but it is very difficult to read your map whilst running. At our team meeting we talked about this and found that it was faster to take the straight line routes through the green but often would be more difficult approaching the control. After lunch we went out to Borowo for relay training. James set the exercise so that it was mass start and you would race head to head for 4 to 6 controls and then wait for the rest of the group before racing through the next controls. There were splits out on the map and because you had the same split as someone the first control didn’t mean you would have the same one the next control. We put all our maps on the ground at the start and all started together.

Running into the finish of the first set of controls I tripped and my leg landed on a log. I had to walk back to the start because it was too sore to run on but hopefully it will get better in the next couple of days. After the others had finished we went swimming in the lake next to where we parked. The rest of the afternoon was spent playing air hockey and bowling against the Australians.

Tim