Training Log Archive: Craig

Orange ball with Liam.

Easy jog around KP. Calf similar to yesterday but I didn't push it to the point where it tightened up significantly this time.

A few little loops near home to test the calf. Wasn't too bad but then because of that I got tempted to try to complete yesterday's planned run which was a bit too much. Started out telling myself I would do a maximum of 12k and I should have stuck to that because it started to tighten up again at about 13k.

Bringing the Friday rest day forward to give the calf a break.

Recovery jog in KP, except my right calf didn't seem to be recovering. Don't think I'll be doing the planned 18km tomorrow.

Inspired by seeing the great man himself on Sunday, I decided to run my tempo on GA's surge course this morning.

Even more of a struggle than usual to get moving when the alarm went off at 5am, in fact I spent 10 minutes doing gentle exercises to try to loosen up a bit before rolling out of bed so didn't get running until 5:25. Warm up wasn't so bad considering how I felt on waking up, but I was still feeling a bit weary so didn't have high expectations for the session. Supposed to be a 5 mile tempo but I decided to just run the 5/8 surge course, which is about 5.5 miles, as a continuous tempo without the usual +/- or slight push/ease off. Didn't feel fast but felt as though I got into a good rhythm and stayed strong all the way through. My feeling was backed up by my splits on the strava segments which got relatively better throughout the session. Quite happy with the full course time of 39:14 as I was predicting 41 low as I neared the finish.

Upper right calf tightened up a bit half way up the long sand hill and stayed a bit tight for the rest of the run but wasn't bad enough to actually restrict me at all.