Training Log Archive: Craig

Much better run than yesterday. Always felt in control, just a slight miss on 3, poor execution of route choice on 2 and hesitant through southern section where half the features seemed to be missing from the map. Left achilles was good but right achilles was very sore by the end. I think the Sarvas I was wearing to protect my left achilles ended up rubbing my right achilles and made it sore. I hope it was the shoes rubbing anyway because that should recover faster. Felt pathetically slow on the downhills again particularly later in the course where both ankles were hurting every time my feet hit the ground on steeper descents. Julian made me feel like a W60 when he went past.

C • W60 pace 3

Warm up run to start plus a bit. Too sore for warm down.

Event: AUS National Championship Carnival
 

WA Champs Day 1. Very scared of hurting my ankle early on, felt pathetically slow and still not reading the map well. Lost a little time on 2, approaching the control I saw a gully to the left and a gully next to the knoll/rock surface, thought the gully to the left was more what I was expecting but I thought it should be the gully closest to the knoll so I tried there first since it looked more open. Not there so I tried the other one, 15 seconds maybe. Leaving 2 I thought I saw Grant coming in, not surprised because I felt very slow. Dropped out to the track because I was pathetic in the bush and Grant was ahead of me before 3. Tried to ignore Grant but saw him off to my right a few times and he seemed much closer than I expected which really distracted me. Wanted to hit the creek low and go up to 4 and was fairly confident I had but after running up the hill for a while without seeing the control I lost confidence and turned around. Very quickly thought it must be further up but felt I had to go down past where I first hit the creek to justify turning around. Feeling pretty stupid by the time I left the control and feeling very unfit heading up the next hill. About this time I started thinking about retiring from elite orienteering. It seemed to get much easier after this and by the time I got to the next control I was starting to recognise things much further ahead and it was feeling like a normal orienteering run in typical WA terrain. Achilles was feeling pretty good until I got to the long track leg where I got a few sharp pains on the downhill section and then it started to get a bit sore around the heel after the uphill. Heel was feeling pretty sore after I cooled down.

Jog to start very slowly plus a couple of harder efforts up the hill just before the start. No warm down.

Easy run to O'Connor Rd via gravel pits to try to make it 30 minutes (failed). Achilles sore, felt like I was limping all the way, lungs burning as soon as I dipped under about 5 min/km. Looking good for the weekend.

Cruised to work from Fauntleroy Ave. Nice.

Ride back to Fauntleroy. Tailwind again. Racing the traffic in the second half just enough to justify an intensity of 2.

Went to physio for more needling.

Easy lap of KP starting with Damien (48:45 PB). A bit sore in left calf and sometimes around heel and under foot. Tried a few accelerations towards the end but felt pretty sluggish and disjointed.

Easy run to O'Connor Rd and back. Tight in same spot as yesterday. This time it did start to hurt a little around the heel but not very much. Not feeling very fit.

Rode to work from Fauntleroy Ave. Fairly nice day but the headwind seemed cold. Dolphins were just upstream of the causeway today.

Ride back to Fauntleroy Ave after work. Nice tailwind.

Easy run around High Wycombe with Matt Seward. Felt ok at the start but very quickly developed a little tightness in the lower left calf. It never got very bad and went away in the last few minutes. No soreness around the heel/achilles.