Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Event: City Safari
 

Didn't manage to get a team for the safari after all, so ended up behind the desks on the day, which is a lot easier on the body but not really as much fun. But did use some of the down time between the 3-hour start and finish to grab a spare map and go for a bit of a run. Did a sort of town belt circuit - O Bay, Mt Vic, Hataitai, Newtown, Mt Cook... up above Central Park at just under an hour, figured I'd better head back rather than carry on to Kelburn if I was going to be back at base in time to be useful. But I think that one last hill would have done me. Didn't see any competitors so they must have all been out on good ambitious routes.

Had a bit of a wander round Battle Hill, where I'm setting an event next month. Was using the orienteering map, so it counts as loggable ;-) Really just went to confirm the spot I had in mind for start and finish and all that was going to be OK but having driven there took the chance to refamiliarise myself with the area and make sure I wasn't going to have to do a whole pile of remapping! Only got there an hour before park closure, so that limited the wandering time.

Once again, feeling a bit done before I even started, but made myself get out there. (Really need another day in the week to fit a rest day in with the rest of my constraints) Up Polhill track (which went something like slow slow walk slow walk walk etc) to the Sanctuary boundary - the legs decided they really didn't need to do that little bit more to get to the turbine - then down through Highbury and the gardens and back down to the office. Returned a bit more directly than I'd planned but there's only so much you can fit into a half hour public service lunch break ;-) Awesome day to get up above the city, though.

Nice mostly relaxed run - sort of like last Wednesday only the "going in circles around a carpark bit trying to find a path that wasn't there" was replaced with a climb up to MetService (the not so relaxed bit) and a bit of a short circuit through the northern end of the gardens, before rejoining the previous route in the old cemetary. The phantom cold that had me feeling pretty bad last night and first thing this morning seems to have gone back to just a sniffle. May it advance no further!

Intervals on the waterfront, 4 x 3.5 mins (which may seem a bit of an odd time, but that was when the headwind on the 1st interval finally got to me). Anyone watching the two into the wind might have struggled to pick when the interval finished...The 2 with a tailwind were much easier, funnily enough. Turned round at Weka Bay (kinda appropriate?), which I think'd be the furthest round I've ever gone when I've been joining the lunchtime athletes of Oriental Bay. Question: is there a rule of thumb how long the "down time" between intervals should be, or just go when you feel ready? (think I was doing about 2-2.5 mins)...

...and this had better not be the beginning of a recycled cold that turned up this afternoon!