Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

something special about 38 minutes at the moment? From the office climbing up to the lake domain and a bit of up and down there before cruising back down to the riverside. Feeling better than yesterday (obviously) but apparently the lungs only had about 25 minutes in them. not a problem except for at that stage i was at the wrong end of the cBD. So the haul back to work was a bit of a struggle. Suppose it saved me trying to figure out what to add to make it a 40 minute loop. Calves starting to feel a bit tight at times both running and otherwise, gonna have to watch this...

I think I'm allergic to thursdays. Was looking forward to a run today (maybe slightly masochistically as the legs are still feeling the last hour of tuesday's effort) but well before lunchtime was feeling pretty horrible and snotty and did not get any better through the rest of the day. Much like this time last week.

Trailling work-Jenny around a couple of trap lines through various variants of lovely beech forest in Big Bush. No dead stoats or anything identifiable as a dead rat, but all but a couple of traps were in working order so a nice contrast from my last field trip. It was fairly obvious Jenny has been doing this on an almost daily basis for about a year now while I only get out into the field occasionally at the moment, but it wasn't until the last climb out at the end of the second trap line onto the MTB track that took us down to the pick-up point that I really started to struggle. Had a kaka encounter and heard plenty of small birds, good day.

Then a rushed trip back to Nelson, a bumpy flight to Auckland with my scariest ever landing (and remember I've fown into Wellington more than any other airport), a couple of hours sitting in AK airport while they took about an hour after the original departure time to decide to cancel the flight to Hamilton, then another hour to organise a shuttle, a long drive in a wind-buffeted van, and home before midnight! (just)

C • Big Day 1

Can't find my watch but I have ^this number of minutes stuck in my head, so it must have been about that. St Arnaud is a very nice location to go for a run after a day of learning about doing population modelling the "easy" way. From our accom near the DOC office down to West Bay then back around the Peninsula track to Kerr Bay finishing with a climb back up to the house that felt a lot steeper than it looked. A bit of a struggle to get going, maybe because it was a bit colder than what I've been used to of late, and enough loose rock etc on the tracks had to be careful about where my feet were going especially as it got gloomy towards the end, but otherwise a very nice session