Training Log Archive: TheInvisibleLog

Didn't run today for a combination of reasons... too much work for the Mt Korong event next Saturday and a sore back being the most defensible. Late in the day (well, night) went for a walk with Jools. I wouldn't normally log walking, but a walk with Jools is not a normal walk. I have to work to keep up with her. I was the school athletic walking champion many years ago. Her preferred speed is up there close to walking training speed. A sweat was developed and clothes peeled off to cool down.

C • walking speed 1

A typical tough day on the Sedgwick map. Colin started us in the south west corner of the map. The only way out is up. Based on post-race discussions, looks like there were 4 route choice legs that split the field. I didn't notice one of them, and I made the wrong choice on one. I ran the leg with the alternate route while picking up a control at the end. I suspect I lost 30 seconds on that choice. Other than that, I lost perhaps 30 seconds on a very cautious approach to control 8. If I'd made the correct route choice on that leg, I wouldn't have been cautious.
Took the first third slow, thinking about control pick up. But when Toph steamed past me I decided to run a bit faster, and the split positions improved. I'll get it up on Route Gadget tomorrow. with full splits etc. Spent this evening installing lots of software onto the new club netbook.

A long run to collect one control. This was the orphan that no-one wanted to collect.

Am trying especially hard to avoid Facebook. I think the senior Sunleys are stalking me. Unsolicited SMS, Facebook invites etc. They seem to think I want to export their girls to the bush. Sorry. I don't think the bush is quite ready.

An SS run (Slow Slog).

Last night was my longest run on bitumen in more than a decade. The feet are showing the impact with some blisters. No running today.

BLKY
That was the personalised number plate in front of me today as I drove to work. The car was a black sporty type that i would never want to be seen in. I am assuming the owner has a fixed idea about the number plate being interpreted as BLacKY. Sadly, my first impression was BuLKY. It only took one extra letter.
I was able to get a glimpse of the driver, but I suspect my interpretation would have been a better description of the driver.

C • BLKY 1

How to convert a 5 k tempo run into a 16k long run.

Step 1: Wave farewell to your spouse in the morning as she rides 10 k to bendigo station to catch the train to Castlemaine.
Step 2: In the evening drive to Lake neangar in the old red car with the dead battery, stuffed voltage regulator and separate keys for ignition and door.
Step 3: Take the ignition key of the key ring, throw the other keys in the car and lock the door before starting tempo run.
Step 4: Finish tempo run and realise you can't get into locked car.
Step 5: Run to YMCA, borrow phone line and ring up spouse who should be home to beg a rescue.
Step 6: Get son on phone who does not know where his mother is and does not have a key to the car. Missed step 5.5 - ensure train from Castlemaine to bendigo is running over half hour late. Ask son to leave note and ring mother to pass on my request for help. Unfortunately, he is in a hurry to get to Lake Weroona (not Neangar) for his temp run session with mates. This may have contributed to an unfortunate communication slip up. He contacts mother who is half way home from Bendigo on bike. She thus thinks I am at Lake Weroona and turns around and rides back into Bendigo (and away from me).
Step 7: Beg another phone call and ring spouse on her mobile. Discover she is at Lake Weroona and on bike, not in car. This prolongs the wait.

All this time, its dark, getting cold and I have sweat drench running clothes and nothing else to keep warm. The only solution is to keep running round the lake until the cavalry arrives. By this means I convert a 6 k run into a 16 k run. The final irony is that the extra 10 k is further than the 8 k run home from Eaglehawk.

C • Moral of the story 2