Training Log Archive: Bruce

Event: NE end of year epic
 

I got up and found that for some reason I had a really stiff and achy side. After voting, I tried running with Nicola and Dion, but found that my side was in agony the whole time.
It felt a bit like a rib injury, but no individual ribs hurt. It seem to hurt mostly when deep breathing, or from jarring (from the impact with the ground).
Later in the day I felt tiredness and had a fever. The more the day went on, the more I realised that I probably had an internal viral infection of some sort, perhaps similar to what Mason had on Wednesday.

Anne felt aches and pains in her stomach also, and since she is 36 weeks and 5 days pregnant, I had to take her in to the maternity hospital, and she will spend a couple of nights in there to make sure that the baby is all right.

I'll have the child minding duties, so I don't think that I'll get much work or training done in the next few days.

Easy run around Yarra Bend Park in the morning.

Street O at All Nations Park, Northcote
Won A course in around 37 minutes. I ran alone and so went fairly hard for the whole course as I didn't know if my route choice was the best. I ended up winning by around 5 minutes I think.

Easy run in at 6am in the morning, as I had a conference all day at work.
After that I played games with the Connex train system. There were no trains between Clifton Hill and Jolimont, so there were several thousand people waiting for trams and buses at Clifton Hill.
Luckily I returned home and got Anne to drive me in to work.

It was 35 degrees C on the 'feels like' thermometer today. Only 31 degrees higher than 6 days ago when it was almost snowing!
6 x 500m today with 3 minute turnarounds. Not too hard with splits between 1.33 and 1.37.
It wasn't too bad as we ran most of the intervals in the shade and there was some cloud cover.

The baby Arthur #3 sweep is officially open. Anne was 36 weeks pregnant yesterday (20 Nov), so she is almost certain to give birth between now and Christmas.
Pick the correct delivery date to win a prize. Bonus points will be given for the correct sex, weight and name.

C • Entries 17

MFR Monday night run from Torgeir's box (student accommodation). It was a warm evening so eating pizza outside in his courtyard was quite pleasant. The run was pleasant too, but a little on the slow side. It was the last Monday run for Torgeir and Zoe before their Summer breaks in Norway and Adelaide. Blair had just returned from Canada in the morning, and Dion and Kirsten were also there.

Event: The Olympic Dream
 

Event: VOA Presentation's
 

End of Year presentations at Hanging Rock.
Scatter event on a fairly simple map, but there was good competition from Jymbo and Scammell. I waited for Jymbo to make a small mistake about 10 minutes in and then put the pressure on. Jymbo came back but couldn't quite catch me and I won by a second or two. Scammell chose a different route late in the course and lost a minute or two.

Fun relay. String course, Maze course, control picking. The hardest part was getting to the first control ahead of 30 others in a mass start, when the first control was only 20m away! After that I pulled out a comfortable 30s lead on a 3 minute course.
Helen Alexander was my partner and we finished 5th in the relay.

C • String Course 5