Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Beautiful day. In fact first run at home in shorts for the season! After yesterday's day off, felt I needed to get at least half the planned 2+ hours for the weekend in, so planned on heading up to the airstrip then following the Te Hape boundary/ridgeline to the back valley then home. Unfortunately at 25 minutes in, thankfully at the bottom of the big climb that would have committed me to this plan, I realised I wasn't imagining that I was feeling a bit sick after all. So gently jogged home, with a detour through the rock garden on the basis that was mostly downhill so wouldn't kill me.

Hopefully this will pass quickly, and if it does it is good timing. We're heading down to Palmy tomorrow to learn how to drive our 4WD (14 months into the job) so had already decided easiest thing was to accept the disruption and have a few days off running.

Yeah, the calves really didn't need that bonus steep hill yesterday. Hopefully they'll be ok with a day's rest. Not sure the planned hour plus run would have happened anyway - motivation at about 1% today.

A bit of a struggle to get started but then came kind of right except on the steepest bits. Thought the cattle that have been living next door this week had been moved so started off on the same circuit as wednesday with the intent to take a more direct route home. Turned out they were all hiding in one gully, so I came up with a quick redesign. This involved a Chris Forne-style route choice across the steep face behind the house, and possibly one hill too many for the good of the calf strain. And there were also big mean looking beasts I'd failed to notice in what was going to be the last paddock. No way I was going back up that hill, so thankfully when sworn at these animals turned out to still be at the nervous age, or could smell the beef on my breath.

Having a bit of a weird week - getting as much sleep as I ever do but still waking up tired and feeling low in energy throughout the day.

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Feeling a bit wasted all afternoon and was even dozing off a little after getting home. So a nice surprise to feel pretty good once I got out there (except for various hurty bits in the legs) and to carry on for more than the half hour I was going to force myself to do. Up the valley to make sure my self-inflicted-torture (aka terrain intervals) loop is still useable, plus a few side trips for added fun. Caught a turkey - I must be getting quick. ;-)

Routegadget links added for TONIC middle & long. Looking at long in particular, maybe the nav wasn't going quite as well as it had seemed to, but the big difference to some other runs was this time I was fixing the mistakes as they happened rather than after they happened (and after a fair bit of random flailing around)

Otherwise, a rest day. (Apart from hopefully a more energetic work day than yesterday)

Not the most convincing session yet, for some reason

Recovery run. Might have been nicer on terrain but we hadn't been past the gate all day so somebody had to go check the (lack of) mail so mostly on the road.

Planning on having an easyish lightish week before getting back into speed work etc. If my calves let me. The easyish lightish week may be inflicted on me anyway if the flatmate has infected me with that nasty noisy cold