Training Log Archive: markg

ACT League race out at the Sandhills. Awesome to be back running on this spur gully terrain from my youth. I think the last time I ran here was during the Xmas 5-days held in Canberra in ... 1997? Had a reasonable run today. I planned to plod around, not push it physically, and really concentrate on the navigation. Worked to some degree, overall mistakes were quite low (maybe 4min lost) but concentration still dropped in places, wasn't planning ahead and navigating ahead as well as I would like. Started well, cruising through the first 3 okay, then had a mid-leg wobble on the long leg 4, followed by a nearly 1 min miss on 5. Kept it together then until 10, where I caught Geoff Stacey, but lost about 30s prevaricating on the way into the circle. Proceeded to make a couple of decent mistakes on 13 and 14 due to lack of concentration while running near Geoff. Then dropped him down the hill and across the paddock to the finish. Felt pretty good physically though a little weary near the end.

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Finished up 10min behind RobW and 2min behind FatRat. Pretty happy with that given I was treating it as training.

My first ride in about 6 months. I took dad's mtb and he rode his roadie and we took off to the lake, over Commonwealth Ave bridge, through Yarralumla and back. We stopped for coffee and a donut at Yarralumla bakery and then swapped bikes for the last leg. Road bikes are so much fun. Passed RobW going in the opposite direction on the bike path near ANU but didn't recognise him until too late to say hello.

1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1 min intervals with equal rests. Went a bit too hard on the first two and struggled with the first 3 min interval. Paced a little more conservatively after that though still pushing hard. Also struggling to deal with the combo of the heat such as it was (only 23 deg but still double the highest temp in Calgary for the last 6 months) and the high intensity.

Warm up and down plus rests for the intervals.

Went over to the new x-country circuit at Mt Stromlo with dad and ran 1 x 2km loop, 2 x 2.5km loops, and a faster 1km loop to finish. Nice track I suppose, but wouldn't get excited about running around it more than this.