Training Log Archive: Mounty

Botany Bay Champioships. Big lap of the Bay with Annika in the 13 with a lovely 12-15kt nor easter.

Found ourselves in front today, which was problematic because I hadn't bothered to check the course - it quite simply never occurred to me that we could possibly find ourselves in the lead. Whoops. Great fun otherwise and good trimming practice to sail some long legs.

Today's contribution to the speed block was a session of Monna fartlek. (2*90 / 4*60 / 4*30/ 4*15 with even float) around the wharves. Heavy legs but got around OK. Covered just over 5k in the 20min.

Interesting to compare running efficiency between sessions. I covered 5k in almost exactly the same time with the Monna's and yesterday's 40/20's. Monna is 50% tempo while the 40/20 is 2/3rds at pace. Felt equally fucked after both.

After reading Tyler Hamilton's book on holiday I decided to try his 40/20sec on-off session. Ran 5km with 20reps (19:44 for the 5k). I can see why it is a good session for building top end...and also why it is a session best done with EPO. Ouch.

C • Pace 3

Daylight savings creates options for the Tuesday beach run. Today I headed down the nice coast bush track from Dee Why to Curly, and then cut over to the Curl Curl parkrun course for some tempo. Did 2 * 2.5km at 3:30min/k. Felt OK, but tiring towards the end of each rep.

Stunning evening.

After heading straight to the office after a day of travelling, an evening spin around the streets of Pymble seemed like a good idea.