Training Log Archive: Bomb

B v P round 2.1 short race part 1. had an ok race, but not fast enough. bit of a mistake on the second last, wasn't totally sure of where I was and went back to check out another control. miss-read the last too - thought it was on top of hill. should have been a couple of minutes faster.

short race final. started in a bit of a gap - 30secs behind aislinn, and a few minutes off the lead. caught aislinn on the way to 1, and as we got to the circle was a little surprised to see kathryn. pace immediately got wound up to max (for me at least), as we steadily got caught by all the others who'd stuffed up the first control. caught lizzie at 4, as we made a mistake, but a much smaller one than lizzie. some very fast legs across to 6, and then some tricky ones, where it seemed like the same people ran back past me 3 or 4 times. was going ok, but then overshot 11, and ended up off the back of the pack with Kathryn. she had the legs to do something about it, and took off, but I'd been at max for too long, and the legs were empty. came in 55secs behind kathryn (who won), but had the second fastest time for the course. good to have a really hard race like that and spend some quality time in the hurt box.

warm ups and warm downs.

nice soak in the hot pools at parakai after the run - awesome!

Event: Queens Birthday
 

Bushrangers-Pinestars test round 1, woodhill. great to be back running in woodhill, especially such a nice part of it. generally a pretty clean run, but just not quick enough. didn't have the confidence to run hard, and had a couple of 2min mistakes. found that quite often I wasn't interpreting the map right, so when I got to an area it didn't look how I was expecting it too. been too long since the last sanddunes run!

night relay at muruwai (sp?) golf course with Kathryn. 2 legs each. fun!
main tactic was lights related - decided to swap the ayups at each change so we both had good lights. and I tried to keep up with toph for as long as possible. ran a bit harder than I'd expected to. goal was to not get beaten by all the other teams, but ended up 2nd overall, behind toph and aislinn, and ahead of mace and shep. yay team!

made it out to anzac park for the first time in a while. still quite sore from yestie, and not sure how the hammie thing was going to hold up, so didn't start out planning to run hard. once I warmed up though, things were much better, so I figured I may as well at least try to run fast. track is a bit washed out, and was always a bit weird running with lights, then lights started to dim about 1/3 of the way in (have no idea when I last charged them - oops). saw a couple of dogs near the creek at the back, which looked like dingos at first, but I think were a bit more like rex, and had collars - they looked a bit confused, which I realised was because they were blinded by ayups - yay! quite happy that they didn't chase me! (there are quite a lot of wild dogs around mt coottha, and I really didn't want to have one decided it didn't like me).
rest of the run was less eventful, with steadily dimming lights (missed the turn on the second last hill - wtf?). was reasonably happy with the time, mainly cos I thought it would be much slower.

got a massage from crazy oscar, as recommended by clare and tamsin. back heaps better, hip still sore, but sciatic pain gone.

run home from work. right glute sore and sore to stride out on right leg, but when I swapped my phone/keys bag into my left hand my right leg felt quite a lot better, and had eased up significantly by the time I got home.

ok, not gym, but towel on floor at home. basic strength session - mainly core stuff with some upper body and squats. random selection of evil stuff as instructed by nasty Dan (from the couch)

first part of an interval session that I bailed on. 4x400 with 200 jog recovery. slow and slower. 88, 89, 90, 91. right hammy/glut was massively sore, so didn't do the 200s

warm up, warm down and recoveries.

run home from work. a bit quicker now that I've figured out the best way, and how to avoid waiting too long at some of the lights. I'll have to figure out some add-ons. would be good to have an hour option.