Training Log Archive: Craig

Easy longish run through KP with Rachel. Legs not feeling great after a long day taping yesterday and all morning on my feet at the kids tennis semi finals but the time passed a lot faster with someone to chat to.

10min tempo, 2x1k at 10k pace, 10min tempo with 2min jog recoveries.

Easy run around KP, with Rachel for the first 10 minutes. Late starting again so stuck to my actual plan of 50 minutes easy rather than doing my usual thing of trying to do at least 10 km. Feeling better than usual for the day after pump but I was starting to feel a bit stiff around the hips just near the end.

Pump with CC. A bit of a different session this time with more lunge and squat variations with one foot on a step. Expect to be sore in the adductors.

GA's 5/8 +- surge course, except my effort was more 1/2 arsed all the way. Legs feeling completely lifeless, obviously not recovered from the weekend yet. I knew from the warm up that it was going to be pointless to try to push it so I tried to just gradually ease into it. Wasn't sure I could remember all the start and end points but that didn't really matter since I wasn't changing pace much anyway. I was starting to feel I was going a little better by the end and was a few seconds faster than my slowest efforts for this course. Strava got me at 42:58 this time with slowest efforts of 43:00 and 43:06 two weeks apart in May 2015. Slightly encouraged by the fact that I ran 39:57 the week between those two efforts. Total run was a bit longer than I remembered and was a bit late starting so struggled to get ready for school on time (nothing unusual about that).

Easy run in KP, mostly on sand. Feeling a bit tired from the weekend and calves a bit tight but not as sore as they had been.