Training Log Archive: Sarah

Still struggling with a sore throat but with no change I decided to get out for a 'run'. Chest was a bit sore

HSBC team building

Woke up with a sore throat last Wed so took Thurs and Fri off. Slightly better on Sat so went for a run. Worse again on Sun so took Mon and Tues off. It's still sore, especially when I wake up but it's not getting worse / progressing
Super frustrating! I was just starting to get some good running in again :(

Field work in the Magaliesberg - Mountain Sanctuary, Easterkloof and Maretlwane. About 2 - 2.5 hours of hiking. Horrible cold wind early on.

Nice midday run. Feeling average.

Witsoc training. East Campus. Did Tania's activity from the coaching conference. I put out and collected cones.

C • new exercise 2

Around the bottom of Rhodes Park, along Juno and up to Jeppe Boys. Quite a tough little route. Juno Street is a killer!
Felt really comfortable today.

Super chilled. Legs didn't feel too bad. Calves are a bit tight which is not surprising after 13km in new inov-8s.

Long-O at Big Red Barn.
Had a smooth race. Lots of sections where you just had to put your head down and run. I thought I had started too fast when I hit a bad patch around 5 km but kept moving and started feeling good again so finished fairly strongly. Was nice to win the trophy (I'm currently having a major trophy drought) even though most of my competition is sick....

Women Open - Splits

Nice morning run. Felt good - I should really try and run in the mornings more often.

At Wits. Nasty cold wind blowing. Legs are still feeling tired!

At Northern Farms - medium course
Almost a year since I last cycled! Was good to be back on my bike and I had a smooth ride. Was overly cautious in places but my confidence improved as I went.
As much as I enjoy cycling it always feels like such a mission to get everything sorted...
Michael was running and almost beat me!

Bryanston High - coaching conference.
A very cool activity set up by Tania to finish off the conference. Good for a small, overused area. Will definitely use it for Wits training sometime

Kinetic trail run - Houghton Golf course
Calves still haven't recovered from the weekend so couldn't really push it. Tried out our new Nao's. Also tried out my new TrailRocs.

GOC Long - Hilton College - 1:15'
A very tough race! Good practice for a WOC long I think. I had a very poor race navigation wise and struggled a lot in the 2nd half physically. I pushed too hard early on trying to stay ahead of people. It was nice to have so many people on my course nearby though - helped to keep motivation high.

Wrong route to #1. Craig caught 2 mins on me but I caught Evan. Ran a bit hard to #2 and #3 to stay ahead. Stuffed up #4. I mis-read the roads and open area and landed up on the lower road. Poor route again to #5 - top road was better. Then was left to #6. Lost time in the circle at #8 - the route stock was tiny and I didn't visualise the valley properly. Then got stuck in a nightmare of blackjacks to #9. I drifted left towards some clear forest and was confused about which road I landed up on. #9 was a nasty control - a depression in a forest full of black jacks. There were about 6 of us running around trying to find it (Jess L caught me here). I then got to #10 first and snuck away. Ran hard to #11 and #12 and had a 200m gap on the pack. Jess closed in on the hill up to #15. I was barely moving up the hill. We also caught Jess Hemer. Jess L pulled away and I caught Carl Holmes at #18. I messed up #21 - drifted too far left - concentration was no where at this point. After that just tried to keep it moving into the finish.
Was expecting Michele to have a good one and given my bad race 25 mins behind wasn't too much of a shock.

W21A - Splits

GOC Champs Middle - Hilton College
The course wasn't very technical so I knew I had to run my butt off. I had a smooth race and kept the pace high until #11 where I chose the wrong route choice and started dying up the hill. Recovered a bit on the downhill to #14 and finished relatively strongly. Was happy to be only 2:30 off the pace. Felt pretty broken after the race though!

W21A - Splits

Short and chilled. Could feel the weekend in the legs.