Training Log Archive: carolineheloise

NSW Long at Saddleback
Not as happy with this as yesterday - lost a lot of time over the course of the race. #1 could've been a bit straighter. Should've contoured better to #4 so that I didn't have to climb so much back up. Can tell that I started to lose concentration and get distracted going to #5. Which resulted in losing a lot of time to #6. Firstly trying to take a short cut which I didn't execute well (and also was not worth it) - already lost 1min on this leg. And then the bulk of it started with not thinking I had gone far enough when I was so close to the control and just had to go in the gap to it. Need to be reading the map better and seeing contact. Ended up relocating of the fence. Lost 6mins just stuffing around - I'm an idiot. Then lost 2:30 on #7, it started out okay but then I saw the two rocks but though they were the others and somehow convinced myself that I needed to go left (??) possibly to avoid the darker green, but then because I wasn't concentrating well I didn't know what I was doing and had to relocate of the fence. Need to keep my head in it better and just read the map and keep contact and know what I'm doing. #8 was okay, lost a fair bit of time from not concentrating after I crossed the fence which meant I took a bad bearing and got caught in some green and got super confused and lost around 1:30. #9 was quite confusing as there was a lot more rock on the ground than on the map. It was a bit higher than I thought it would be and I was starting to wonder if I was in the right spot so decided to head up the hill further to get a better picture of the rock and luckily it was just up a bit higher where I headed to. Probably should've taken a better route into #11 to avoid a downhill diagonal but I knew where I was so it was fine.
Physically didn't feel great again though wasn't trying to run as fast as yesterday.
So overall definitely could've been a lot better had I been thinking more. But had lots of fun and learnt a lot so coming out of it with lots of things I can improve on which is good!

Long Hard 3 - Splits

Middle Hard 2 - Splits

Event: NSW Middle Distance Champs SL #3 / Long Distance Champs SL #4
 

NSW Middle Champs at Pinetree.
Really cool map with heaps of rock, most of which didn't make it onto the map.
Mostly good, though was continuously second-guessing myself through all of the rock. A lot of small things in the circle which I need to fix up.
Definitely could've been more careful with execution and contact going to #7, not sure where I was so had to relocate of the bear rock. Also a bad exit from #9 because I didn't read the map properly and then route wasn't very good following that. And could've done #18 better by staying low for longer and going around and up through the gully.
Couldn't run very fast and breathing was quite wheezy through the second loop - not too sure what from but it wasn't fun.
Awesome terrain, definitely worth the travel!

Taking a day for my shin before this weekend.

Along the 'trail' by the river at UQ.
Shoulders/breathing was quite tight but has been so all day since rehearsal started. Otherwise good.

Rerunning a sprint course at UQ.
Alright, though could've been a lot better at picking routes rather than looking at where the control was and just running to it because I know the map so well at the moment. But map was old with faded printing and it was getting dark and there was people everywhere so I couldn't read much anyway.
Felt so slow compared to the tempo but that could've been from being tired from the tempo and also just tired in general.
And then as I was leaving #13, I slammed into a bench (it was dark, I was distracted looking at my map and didn't see it) and hit my shin really hard and fell on the ground over on the other side of the bench and hit my hip landing. By the time I sat up there was already a huge lump on my shin and blood dripping from it so stopped and sat down for a few mins.

Limp/jog back to mums office. Iced the shin for 20mins before going home. Hopefully will be okay for this weekend.

Abs + arms. No leg/glute because of shin/hip.

Easy, Stomach was a bit yuck because of a late lunch when I got home but not too bad.

Intraining speed session.
3 x 3 x 200 on/off followed by a 1km TT. 2mins standing rec between sets and 5mins before the time trial.
First set of 200s was a bit slower but the next two were better.
Struggled a bit in the time trial because I was just by myself as the rest of my group were doing more 200s.
Sets: 4:24, 4:06, 4:01- didn't take splits for individual 200s.
1km: 3:37
Golden sunrise this morning!

arvo nap

Easy. Felt good. New shoes feel a lot better than the old ones.