Training Log Archive: BertbennettIn the 31 days ending Oct 31, 2013:
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Sunday Oct 27, 2013 #
Note
(sick)
Been busy with big assignments and drinking and such. Was holding the record for the mechanical bull yesterday at college for a while, hurts today. Feeling pretty rough due to chesty cough.
Thursday Oct 24, 2013 #
Note
(sick) (rest day)
Feels good.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013 #
Running (Street-o 1 blackbutt) 45:27 [3] 8.81 km (5:10 / km)
decided to take it easy as I'd done a few days in a row and was starting to feel the adverse effects. A lot of the clues had me pretty confused for a good 10-20 seconds which made for a very stop-starty run. Had trouble seeing a couple of the clues as they were pretty small and it was getting dark. Good run though.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2013 #
Note
(sick)
woot
meant to go for a long run today but didn't get time. Guess I'll have to do it on thursday.
meant to go for a long run today but didn't get time. Guess I'll have to do it on thursday.
Running tempo (Hospital loop) 48:50 [4] 11.2 km (4:22 / km) +100m 4:10 / km
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Same run as sunday but a bit faster. I actually feel like training is having some sort of effect on me. I seem to be climbing better and cruising pretty easily in the low 4 min kms. Feels nice. Head clogged up pretty bad. Looking forward to Streeto tomorrow hopefully I haven't overdone it.
Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.6 km (8:20 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Monday Oct 21, 2013 #
Running hills (Sugarloaf up) 28:02 [4] 4.62 km (6:04 / km) +400m 4:14 / km
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Started from O'Donneltown road near the cemetery at West Wallsend. Felt pretty good until the really steep part with about 1.5km to go where I had to walk a few strides to let the calves recover before getting back into running. I like these shorter runs that feel more beneficial even though the distance and time spent running is low. Climbed about 400m according to garmin. Kept getting heaps of sweat in my eyes as it was about 35 degrees according to my car thermometer (not sure how accurate that is).
Running hills (Sugarloaf down) 21:56 [3] 4.62 km (4:45 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Trying to save the legs on the way down. Found a pretty cool downhill mtb track that goes next to the road for some of the way. Calves felt much better at the bottom than they had at the top that's for sure.
Sunday Oct 20, 2013 #
Running 1:07:00 [3] 11.17 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Extremely slow plod to the hospital through jesmond park with Lucy. Plodtastic.
Saturday Oct 19, 2013 #
Note
Rest days yesterday and today. Did 3 pretty solid days in a row and felt a weird pain in my left shin which I suspect may have been the beginnings of shin splints. So I wanted to let it heal a bit before smashing it again tomorrow. Gonna go watch alex finish the fernleigh 15 tomorrow. Thinking of running it next year.
Strength n stuff (Abs n stuff) 10:00 [3]
For the ladiez
Thursday Oct 17, 2013 #
Running tempo (10k) 40:14 [4] 10.0 km (4:01 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Windy as outside which made it pretty tough. I lot of headwinds to plaŹ through. Air was really smoky too... Throat feels kinda weird after that run. I think they're burning off somewhere west of here, or the smoke from the lithgow fires is somehow all the way over here. Nice run.
C • fire 2
Running warm up/down 8:00 [2] 1.0 km (8:00 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Wednesday Oct 16, 2013 #
Orienteering (Streeto- brickworks) 29:57 [3] ** 6.58 km (4:33 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
First street-o in a long long time. Took a while to get into the somewhat unique mapping style and questions instead of controls but still went fairly smoothly. Route choice was a bit bad on one or two controls. Got 31 points. 4 behind Macey. Felt good running apart from weird pain in left shin. Maybe the 30 mins of stretching after yesterday paid off cause my calves didn't blow up like they usually do :D
Tuesday Oct 15, 2013 #
Running tempo 1:17:10 [4] 17.27 km (4:28 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Run from uni to glendale via the railway track/bicycle/footpath thing and back. Pushed a pretty good pace. I've come to the conclusion that newcastle is really hot (a Canadian told me it was and Murray says Canadians are a pretty solid judge of weather).
Sunday Oct 13, 2013 #
Orienteering race (NSW Sprint Champs) 19:26 [5] **** 3.3 km (5:53 / km) +80m 5:15 / km
spiked:17/21c shoes: Salomon s-lab
I'm beginning to think that while my attackpoint log does look more impressive when I take longer to do a course as the bars are longer, that maybe I should rethink this strategy as it is leading to some annoyance in the results department. Smashed through the first 5 controls absolutely nailing everything with 0 hesitation, then completely didn't see #6 on the way to #7 (woo mp!) then up the stairs to 8. Route choice on longer legs seemed fairly arbitrary as differences amounted to 5 seconds either way. Still going well till number 13 where I spent 20 seconds on a slight navigational wobble and then up the massive staircase (Felt as if I was climbing some chinese mountain with a temple on top it was a pretty big staircase), then my calves just died hardcore and I struggled super hard through the rest of the race. When my body went so did the mind and my decision making became super sloppy and slow. After 14 just lost seconds on every control due to tiredness. Frustrating that I was ahead of both Barnsdog and Macey by about 20-30s heading into number 12 before my bloody calves decided to shit themselves again. Really really nice area I was pleasantly surprised by how cool the map was. Heaps of cool stairs and gardens. Course was cool too with some neat route choices. Nav felt awesome when my body was good but when it started getting tough my nav just suffered terribly. Sick of MPs and this one was a complete surprise to me. Ah well. Well done to Oscar for being ridiculous and doing 16:40.
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Note
Course 1/2
Splits
1- 0:25
2- 0:18
3 - 0:07
4 - 1:15
5 - 0:50 (mistake)
6 - --
7 - 0:23
8 - 1:56
9 - 0:54
10 - 0:59
11 - 0:22
12 - 0:51
13 - 2:28 (20-30 seconds after massive staircase)
14 - 1:44 (back up massive staircase)
15 - 0:51
16 - 1:54
17 - 1:21
18 - 0:41
19 - 0:39
20 - 0:38
21 - 0:15
Finish - 0:35
This has been an extreme form of procrastination.
Also props to Craney for a sub 2:39:24 maraton. Huge!
Splits
1- 0:25
2- 0:18
3 - 0:07
4 - 1:15
5 - 0:50 (mistake)
6 - --
7 - 0:23
8 - 1:56
9 - 0:54
10 - 0:59
11 - 0:22
12 - 0:51
13 - 2:28 (20-30 seconds after massive staircase)
14 - 1:44 (back up massive staircase)
15 - 0:51
16 - 1:54
17 - 1:21
18 - 0:41
19 - 0:39
20 - 0:38
21 - 0:15
Finish - 0:35
This has been an extreme form of procrastination.
Also props to Craney for a sub 2:39:24 maraton. Huge!
Saturday Oct 12, 2013 #
Running (Easy saturday arvo plod) 35:00 [3] 6.0 km (5:50 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Ran with lady friend. Bridget seems to think that the lady friend and I should date now that we've gone on a run together....
Wednesday Oct 9, 2013 #
Running race (Race from pub to home) 39:40 [5] 10.4 km (3:49 / km)
shoes: pubgoers
Forgot drivers licence ran home yolo
left ankle absolutely maggot.
left ankle absolutely maggot.
Tuesday Oct 8, 2013 #
Note
lacticus alloterus.
Also finding more and more that my errors on catching features are remarkably similar to my errors on real courses.
Also finding more and more that my errors on catching features are remarkably similar to my errors on real courses.
Monday Oct 7, 2013 #
Note
(rest day)
Feeling absolutely rough as guts today. Probably at least two rest days before street-0 on wednesday.
Strength n stuff (core) 15:00 [3]
Trying to get some core strength feeling a bit floppy when running.
Sunday Oct 6, 2013 #
Orienteering race (Aus relay) 1:35:30 [3] ***** 8.0 km (11:56 / km) +310m 10:00 / km
Stomach cramps calf cramps and hip cramps. Massive struggle. Electrolytes must have been way out of balance cause I had absolutely nothing to push with today. Disappointing but glad I managed to finish.
Saturday Oct 5, 2013 #
Orienteering race (Aus middle) 1:02:30 [3] ***** 6.5 km (9:37 / km)
Holy F#*k! I'm getting real sick of one or two legs absolutely send me from top 20ish results to last 5 results...
Started out real smooth apart from a wabble on #3. Went awesome then punched 7 an thought I'd punched 8 (yep) and proceeded to spend 8 minutes absolutely ruining my course on possibly the easiest control on course. Then fine if a little slower to 18z splits were consistent but had 0 confidence so I kept checking boulders that I knew weren't the control or some reason... Losing dumb seconds. Then #19 where I decided 7 minutes wasn't enough I should add another 11 minutes of errors to really f#^k my course up. Went too far left going down that hill and for some reason decided to ignore huge pointers that told me I was well off. So after that I was about 18 minutes behind where I could have been. Rest of the course was alright. I just don't get why every time I lose contact I make an error that is almost 20% of the entire race...
Started out real smooth apart from a wabble on #3. Went awesome then punched 7 an thought I'd punched 8 (yep) and proceeded to spend 8 minutes absolutely ruining my course on possibly the easiest control on course. Then fine if a little slower to 18z splits were consistent but had 0 confidence so I kept checking boulders that I knew weren't the control or some reason... Losing dumb seconds. Then #19 where I decided 7 minutes wasn't enough I should add another 11 minutes of errors to really f#^k my course up. Went too far left going down that hill and for some reason decided to ignore huge pointers that told me I was well off. So after that I was about 18 minutes behind where I could have been. Rest of the course was alright. I just don't get why every time I lose contact I make an error that is almost 20% of the entire race...
Running warm up/down (Before mid champs) 10:00 [3] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Orienteering (Post middles venting) 30:00 [4] 5.0 km (6:00 / km)
Did a course on the map across the road from Andrew's needed to take my mind off how shit id run today. Was good.
Thursday Oct 3, 2013 #
Note
(rest day)
Snowed at mt Canobolas today. Work at the factory today and tomorrow. Good prep for middle.
Wednesday Oct 2, 2013 #
Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.5 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Orienteering (Hard 5 from SL10) 44:34 [4] **** 6.57 km (6:47 / km)
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Decided to head out to mullion creek to do the course from State league 10. I think I may have edged out my dad by a little bit had I been there on the day :P Map is an old one mapped by local guy Basil Baldwin. Some areas of the map felt funny especially scale (or maybe I'm just really unfit) and rock. But it was nice to go for a plod, still being very careful not to aggravate the achilles. Heaps of trees had fallen over in recent wind in the pines which was interesting. Hopefully I go alright in the middle champs.
Tuesday Oct 1, 2013 #
Running (Mount Canobolas Summit) 56:30 [3] 8.4 km (6:44 / km) +450m 5:18 / km
shoes: Salomon s-lab
Got sick of not running at all for so long so I decided to hit up mount Canobolas from the bottom to the summit. Only 4.2km from bottom to top but the route was super direct and 30% in parts. Stopped twice on the way up to rest the Achilles. Both lower calves felt a bit rough on the way up. Good to get out.