Training Log Archive: fletch

Event: Spice Brook - Badge
 

This was always going to be tough, given that the expected winning time was longer than all but a couple of my training runs in the last 2 or so years. Started off very rusty. went wide to stay out of the complex gullies, swung too wide, got disorientated and swung down into a gully system facing lmost opposite to the direction that I wanted. Realised it was all wrong pretty quickly, bt was quite cautious as I approached the control as I was not at all confident of my exact location. Had a small miss on the second, but hte map was showing it's 20 years there and it was pretty vague. Slight directional wobble on the way to 4, Clean thru to 13, where I hit my attackpoint, but then was vague in the last 100m and had to come back at the control fom a clearing on the edge of the circle. From there clean thru to the end. Happy with how I was running. Didn't feel like 'racing' but felt OK up the hills and kept running thru to the end. Knackered now.

A shame Craig and Ben were over east. Would have been nice to know what a good time was for the course. My money would have been on Craig being around the 70 minute mark, but it is always hard to tell.

Course 1 - Splits

Fitted my new rudder to the PRS today. Half of me really wanted to get out for an evening paddle. The other half knew I needed a good night's sleep before the race tomorrow morning. Sleep won. Glad it did. Was a shock when I looked at my watch 45 minutes after my alarm was meant to go off and realised I hadn't set it properly...

Have been struggling to stay awake in class the last few days, so put the alarm back an hour and skipped beach run this morning. Any possible benefit seems to have been erased by marking until after 11pm last night...

Well - didn't get home till after 5:30 (oh poor me) and didn't get the kids in bed till 8pm. Was in bed well before P got home, so no training today. Really felt like it by the end of the day.

Must stop playing ootball. Knee was totally stuffed trying to jog the school cross country with hte kids this morning. (Should I bother logging 2.7km in 16 mintes as 'training'. Maybe hat of patience training, as 10 out of a class of 17 cheated and I made them go round again...)

Will be super happy when cross country training is over and other morning commitments so I can get back into a proper training routine. Forced onto the windtrainer again to bore myself to tears. 5 min w/u, 3 x 15 min, 3 min recoveries, 5 min cool down.

Don't think I'll ever make the reps that long again. Didn't have the motivation to keep the effort up. May revert to pyramids for a while...

Started as an unispired pootle. About 10km in, I cruised past a roadie, who came smashing back past me round the next corner. He faded massively on the next hill, so I passsed him again, only for him to come steaming past after I crested the hill. He virtually stopped the next time we started going uphill, then I never saw him again. Moron. Anyway, continued on a little more solidly to the end.

One of those uninspired rides where it feels like you're working just that little bit harder than you should be for the pace you are going. Put it down to the headwind. Got home to realise back wheel was buckled and rubbing on the brakes again, but I don't know if it was that or if I was just feeling ordinary.

The hard bits of the 3 min on, 2 min off intervals. 6 reps. Hard work. Pretty dead and losing form by the end of it. Hate running in shoes on the sand.

Warm up, cool down and recoveries between intervals.

Had to do some orienteering setup at school before a 7:30 meeting, so reduced to an afternoon windtrainer session instead ofthe regular commute. Had a few minutes during the day to once again unbuckle my back rim.

4 x 10 minutes effort, 3 min recovery with a short warm-up and cooldown. Felt like a pretty solid effort. HR suggested I was working hard enoug, which was pleasing, coz my legs felt like rubbish whilst warming up and in the first half of the first effort