Training Log Archive: Craig

Event: WAMC John Forrest Cross Country
 

Jog over to Bilgoman with Rachel for the John Forrest XC. Heart went about a minute before we got there.

John Forrest Cross Country.
Got there a bit early so probably needed to do some more warm up but I wanted to just rest as much as possible to give my heart a chance to settle down. Started near the front and set out fairly fast sitting just behind the lead bunch of about half a dozen. Felt awful after the first 30 seconds or so and I wondered if it was my heart but I think it was probably just from starting too fast too long after my warm up. Evan Kolbe came flying past as I tried to relax and recover a bit. I settled down and caught up to Evan again but before I could really get comfortable my heart did go at about the 7 minute mark.
I didn't feel really bad so I decided to keep going the best I could by pushing the downhills and jogging the uphills. Went past a heap of people on the main downhill but most of them and a bunch of others went back past on the hill up to the road. Still near Evan on the road but he pulled away heading up to the drink station as Tina Major came past.
I walked through the drink station grabbing a drink from Helen Post and then Kate Gregory pranced past me on the railway trail running on tiptoes. I had to go past again across the rock surface to prove I'm a real orienteer and just held her off up the next hill.
Steve Stockwell came past on the next downhill having missed the turn and done a bit of extra distance. I used the downhill to catch back up to Evan and a few others as my last chance to score some points before walking most of Faithfull's hill.
Kate almost caught up at the top of the hill and ran just behind me for a while before I started to pull away. Evan wasn't all that far ahead at the top of the hill but ran strongly up the road to the finish and pulled well clear. I had a good patch in the last km or so and put about a minute on Kate by the end. Heart started to fail me again in the final 200m but the legs still felt good and I can manage a 30 second effort without oxygen so I finished strongly.
Quads and calves already feeling sore crossing the highway 10 minutes after finishing.

Heart bad all afternoon again. Getting a bit of a headache during the bad patches and I didn't feel up to doing a short course with the kids.

Easy run in KP. Heart got bad after 8.5 minutes so I walked up to the DNA tower hoping it would come good or I would at least have a fairly comfortable downhill run home. Did manage to run all the way home but it wasn't all that comfortable.

Heart bad all afternoon and evening.

Jogged over to Rosalie for a few drills and strides. Felt surprisingly good by the end.

Started out with the Rosalie runners but my heart was good so I stayed by the river to have another try at yesterday's session. Modified it slightly to do every 2nd km at 4:00 rather than a straight progression. Attempted to do 6k in 4:00, 3:50, 4:00, 3:40, 4:00, 3:30 but couldn't quite do it. Slight headwind coming back meant the second half was a bit beyond me.
I did 3:59, 3:50, 4:00, 3:41, 4:04, 3:34 for a total of 6k in 23:08.
Saw Richard and Nicole riding around the river and then Terry coming down the side of KP.

C • Slight headwind 1

The plan was 5k warm up @ 4:40, 5k progressing from 4:00 to 3:25, 5k warm down @ 4:40 but my heart went about 2k into the warm up so I just stuck to 4:40 all the way. I tried to go a bit faster at the start of the progression and when Nick and Dan came back past me after the turn but each time it felt bad and I found myself back at 4:40 pace when I recovered.

C • 212! 17

Work, prosthodontist, home, work, home.
Rode a bit harder up the hill through KP because I couldn't resist trying to catch a triathlete that passed me a bit before the hill.
Tried to talk myself out of it but just couldn't do it.