Training Log Archive: Nathan

Lot's of jogging around cheering on the teams then a more specific steady trot, drills and strides.

Livingston Relays Huncote Harriers-1st Team Leg D 4x3miles

Last leg for the first team so pressure was on. Steady runs from the other guys set me off in around 10th, way off the leaders with a few ahead. Shot off a bit too quick, cruising down the slight hill in the park before getting to memorial gates and heading out along the road. Sat in to the headwind and tried to push which was ok but it got really humid because the sun came out and was baking the wet pavement from earlier. Got to the slight hill and maintained a nice pace. Carried on up the rise to the far gates then in and around the duck pond. Steady along the football pitches the really tough climb up to the big house, pace dropped naturally then really dug in out of the gates, quick loop on the road and back in to the finish.

Solid run, wind made it tough in places but didn't really affect it overall. Felt a little weak in my core on the hills which was annoying but stayed pushing throughout. I do feel that if I was running with people it would have helped but I really enjoyed it. Fastest Harrier by 1:15~ and brought us up to 8th.

Real easy jog.

Spinning the legs out before tomorrow. Legs felt ok, but watched was out of laps on about half an hour so went on pace.

Real easy one out with dad on the fields. He pushed it a little on the last half and my legs still hadn't woken up. Not feeling too bad though.

Easy jogging then once up the hill, down the side. Half with the guys. Drills and strides after.

Ted Toft Memorial race. Only found out about it last night from Mark at Club. Supposedly 4 miles but was a little short, brutal climbs though, interesting course basically it was a lot of running flat the smashing up a hill, so kind of flat then hill, odd thing to run. Set off a little fast but soon settled in once we'd been over the top once. Pulled ahead and sat in second but maybe 50m down on the first guy. Moved well around the pond and duck boards, then up the hill the long way and along the top. Quick up and down over the rough ground. Then along the escarpment and back up the massive hill again and along the fat to finish. Held a strong 2nd throughout the race. Apparently I was 9 seconds off the old course record but the guy who won was 1:40 up on me so he smashed it. +1:30 on mark so pleased with that.
Nice bottle of wine for my troubles.

Trundling with mark up the hill and round, nice chat.

Jog, it's been a while and I hadn't realised, nice to see everyone.

Fartlek on the roads, leading with Mark but pulled ahead on the last few efforts which was encouraging. Moving consistently at around 2:55's for flat, undulating around 3:10's and then hills 3:30's. Varied between around 250 to 800 .Nice evening and a new route for me. Potential for a race tomorrow.

Just carried it on at the end, didn't restart for warm down.

Just cruising, feeling ok, took a while to wake up.