Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

2nd day of Australian elite races. Seldom Seen (2004 Aus Champs area), physically tough area with heaps of rock. 6th, 10 minutes down. Again lost time on the first control but this time was only partly culpable - got to the circle and couldn't work out which of the 50 rocks within sight were the 2 which were on the map. Settled pretty well technically after that, although perhaps a bit too conservative for my own good in the first few. Lots of fallen timber and small rock underfoot and not really aggressive enough in that, but feeling better than yesterday. Further off the pace than I would want to be in this field. No sign of results online at time of writing.

Event: Australian Elite Races
 

1st day of elite races, Macquarie Woods. Blew 45 seconds on number 1 which was annoying on an easy area. Clean after that, and the pines were mostly very nice to run through, but felt a bit sluggish and lethargic, particularly on the hills. At best in the middle when running around Kerrin Rattray.

Not bad for a Thursday morning - starting at 6 is never easy (although it's harder in the summer when I'm usually doing this session off a Wednesday night Summer Series). Felt pretty good for most of the first half and a really nice morning to be out, still, misty and about 8 degrees. Last 40 minutes a bit of a grind but the tracks along the Yarra are nicer for that than the streets would be. Did a couple of hills at the end to take it up to 2 hours. Certainly stronger on the hills than earlier in the week, although there weren't as many of them as usual in a Doncaster run.

Pretty sluggish, particularly on the hills. Nice morning though. First run of a fairly heavy couple of days.

Melbourne 'Tan' - 13.29 (Corporate Cup). Km splits 3.31, 3.41, 3.33, 3.27 (there's a 1k to go mark so the 3rd and 4th splits partially overlap). Somewhat below par but about what I was expecting - if I'm 20 seconds outside par for a 2.7k fartlek loop yesterday I can't expect to be much closer to it today. Decent last km trying to run someone in a Holden singlet down (didn't quite make it but got closer to running him down than I usually get to running anyone down in the last 500).

The course is steeply uphill from about 800-1300 metres, and mostly downhill from about 2300-3400, hence the splits - 10 seconds slower for the second km than the others is normal for this course.

Beautiful still sunny day. Only downside was that it brought all the walkers out of the woodwork and they kept getting in the way.

Bruce did 12.59, his best this year. Rune was there but I didn't see him finish.

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Warmup/warmdown for the Tan, going to/from the start.

Didn't expect a lot, but perhaps a bit better than I thought - slower than last week (9.22 fastest loop) but not the 9.30+ I thought might have been a possibility. Don't seem to be any sicker than yesterday so maybe it won't come to anything. Right shoulder sore for no obvious reason.

MFR Monday night run, as usual very slow early on but picked up a bit later. Didn't feel great - feel like I might be in the early stages of a cold (hope not, although if it's going to happen there are worse weeks). Did some exploring down by the Yarra in the dark which had its moments.

I can't believe it - more than 24 hours have elapsed since Essendon sank to the bottom of the AFL and nobody has sledged me about it yet.

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