Training Log Archive: acejase

Cockies Majura long run with RobW, Hoggster, Frogga and Ollie. Felt pretty tired from yesterday although didnt drop off as much as thought might. Luckily Ollie was kind to us. Up Majura, pines, HH, Ainslie and then back again. RobW and I pretty slow up Ainslie and were in fits of laughter after crossing an erosion gully on way back from Ainslie and Hoggster and Ollie seemed to make 50m on us across the one gully.

Coffee at Sfoglia. Twas good - havent done the cockies coffee for a while so nice to get back. Caramel milkshake was special.

XC Waste Basin 10mile race. Yet again started out feeling tired. really is a pattern at the moment - really notice it in the quads. Just no spark. Settled in to 4th place by Hospital hill and knew the 1st guy was going to be a long way ahead. 2nd and 3rd were prob 50m ahead and leaving me so just decided to try and stay solid and see if one of those guys blew up. Come scrivener dam I could see one of them coming back to me but by then I was starting to slow. Finished it off solid although big bleeding blister in arch of my foot which I could see was from hole in sock. Socks now in bin! Time is about a minute slower than when I did waste basin solo a month or so pre marathon although in many ways this was a solo run and a strong head wind after scrivener.

I'd been thinking this tiredness was because I was building my training back up again but now starting to think the tiredness is still left over from the marathon. Its about 8 weeks since marathon which has been 2 weeks resting, 1 week virus, 1 week calf tweak and now 4 weeks decent training. After 4 weeks decent training I would normally be feeling good training but am not so think I'll take it easy for a week or maybe 2 and see if things pick up that way.

Warmed up in Brooks racers thinking I'd wear them but just didnt feel good so quick change in to lunar racers.

C • lunar racers 2

ride home was in the dark and pissing down rain.

6 * DS Hills in the dark and light rain. Not too leg weary from last night but cant say I was "explosive"! I dont really do intervals sessions this short very often and couldnt remember which light pole the hill ended at.

Highlight came before the run. Struggling for motivation and to ensure I ran I turned to my training partners and running machines RobW and Hoggster for company and to ensure we all went for a run. Text messages were as follows:

Acejase: Andy / Rob, I'm gunna do ds hills tonight at about 7.45. Anyone keen?

RobW: Just ate dinner and opened a beer. I did a run at lunchtime, also its an asahi which is basically a health tonic.

Hoggster: haha. funny.

Pyramid intervals in the dark round the streets of Cook. 1,2,3,4,3,2,1 with 1min recoveries. Good enough session. Highlight was on recovery section past the old Cook Primary where with big windows and the lights on it was obvious there was a ballet class on with a lot of males in it. Highlight came when saw two bogans climb on the walkway roof next to the window, pretend to do a couple of ballet pirouettes and then get chased off the roof by the teacher yelling 'Next time I'll call the police'. It was like an 80s Australian comedy movie.

C • Hilarious!! 1

Did helper duty at A&Z's pre-school in the morning. so cute. But then got to ride to work at lunch time in nice sunshine before returning home in the cold again.