Training Log Archive: jlf

Event: British Relays
 

Warm up efore relay, hard as rushed for time through relay changes.

British Relay First leg without rest of team.
Started well, ignoring others but was running strong and accurately. Made one route choice error where I was affected and distracted by others who took the and route and didn't have confidence to take my planned route.
Then I made ig mistake in first control in the green and after that although I was accurate I was slow and just couldn't fight hard enough to run harder as I knew I had no team. A bad excuse but the truth. Really need to work on psycholgy stuff more....but positive that all but one control was good.
Annoyed at time though.

Event: British Long Champs
 

Run to start and around start area, focusing head as well.

Classic race.
Aimed to run as hard as I could to see if I was more accurate and could chanel adrenaline to be positive and I could.
The first 10 controls were brilliant, one little wole at control 4 but perfect other than that. Started to slow down out of 10 as 4 close controls I didnät want to mess up, slowed down too much but hit them perfectly. From 13 started to struggle with fitness and therefore was too slow and inaccurate. Made ig mistakes on 14 and 15 ut was still fighting.
listers were starting to form all over both feet.
Got half way to 20 and feet were agony and eventually just couldn't keep shoes on so walked to 20 and then ack to finish.
Really positive that the start went well, as ran hard and accurately.

Training event - Roseile.
Taking it easy but felt amazing and was spiking controls. I made some 'over safe' route choices but learnt quickly that it was not worth it, important for tomorrow. Felt really good throughout and the line was more successful than usual, slowed down but kept running throughout. Only did half of the line though as I was not sure how long the others would be running for.
Well worth going!

In Edinburgh. Ran 1 and a half laps of meadows harder than planned but was feeling really strong! Then did 6 x 100m coordination strides, jogged round and met Becky and Jess so joined them for jog back with wind ups (but wasn't so speedy on these....) and then jogged back to Sophie's.
Legs felt really good and I felt strong, but HR really high...

Travelling yet again... and sleeping on floor of stansted airport!!

Technique training and confidence building with Linda, at an easy pace as neither of us feeling well (I had slept for 4 hours on sofa before)
Went from Kristinehamn club house.
Was really hesitant and confidence really low at start but worked on some techniques with Linda and suddenly started spiking all the controls. I am much more accurate when I run at a better speed so ran last 3 controlsfaster and stronger and was perfect.
Really good session, and easy on the legs.

Cross Trainer Intervals. 5 mins warm up, 7 mins hard level 7, 3 mins recovery (x3) then distance at level 6 10 mins and then on to bike for 5 x 1 min sprint/ 1 min recovery and 5 min warm down.

Felt really tired throughout and after, still not feeling 100%.
Wanted to run today but had to stay home with Rebecca as dagis was closed and Linda late home.