Training Log Archive: Vaala

Walking with Mum along the peninsula.

Round and round Shakespear Park in all sorts of directions and up and down every track going at least once, mostly twice or so, then back to Chris's house at the Big Manly Beach via a tiki tour of Gulf Harbour. There was a bit of walking because my legs felt tired, it was so hot (I am no longer used to this awful humidity) and my ankle and foot were a bit over it. The scenery was lovely though. And there was cake and ginger beer waiting for me back at the house!

Walking round town all day with Mum spending FAR too much money and eating A LOT of food!

Hill intervals in the rain - what fun! Warmed up running along the river then up Rapaki where the first interval took me to about halfway along the flat section. Cruised back down to the start of the track and headed up again for the second interval which took me to just after where you start to go downhill again. Then back down the hill and along the river again. Wasn't too bad but I am pretty useless at intervals. To last 15 minutes up a hill means I don't think I'm going much faster than normal (meaning I am slow at intervals rather than that I'm fast running up hills because I'm definitely not)!

Drizzly ride up Huntsbury from work then a very wet ride back down Rapaki. Left straight from work after a long afternoon pinning up pictures of ducklings and searching for pictures of cats on windowsills. The standing desk is going okay but it was nice to be sitting down on my bike and my ankle got a bit funny by the end of the day which was kinda weird since it was fine earlier in the week.

Fartlek farty thing up the Harry Ell, around the back of the Sugar Loaf (extremely slowly as it was a bit uneven for my poor ankle) then down another way. I thought it was supposed to be 45 minutes but when I got back I noticed I'd misread my plan as usual and it was supposed to be an hour. Oh well, I was starting to feel pretty sick by 45 so probably an hour would have been a bit much this morning. Plus I've already butchered the plan enough times that I'm probably doomed for failure...or at least a very long time.

C • ankle 3

C • butchered plans 2

Up the hill and along the tops with M after visiting the Molly Cat. Thighs felt shattered to start with but improved heaps. Glad we didn't time trial as I'm still feeling pretty average.

Rode my mtb to work intending to got for a ride after work but yep, the good times have begun and I considered going home from work at lunchtime - except having a bike makes that difficult when you feel that bad. Felt a bit better by the time I left but then, after visiting Molly who didn't seem that good, I felt awful again so yep, no riding for me. Not the best day to start the standing desk experiment at work either!