Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

A jaunt around and about Forest Lake after trying and failing to find a suitable event centre in a nearby part of town that would otherwise be awesome for one of our spring rogaines. It's a fun place to run, probably about as close to training in terrain as you can get without leaving Hamilton, especially at the moment when most of the flat bits fall somewhere on the soggy-to-boggy scale. So a few little uphills, a bit of contouring and a bit of resistence work on the flats - fun but not (at this point) the easiest 20 minutes! Fine at the time and afterwards, hopefully there's nothing to the little jab I had in the calf later.

Being good and disciplined.

Refer to Wednesday. Was intending a run today as that would make the alternating run/strengthening days fit better with my other plans for the week, but things didn't feel quite right in the leg. And the weather failed to encourage.

Down by the riverside. Not as cold as I'd feared but still not exactly tropical!

Same pain as I had last week around the ankle just started to hit towards end of the warm-down. If it has to happen I suppose that's the most appropriate time for it...

Exorcising the baby cow: 20 pairs each type of calf raise (10 at a time) and 20 eccentrics in the middle. Definitely hitting my current limit!

We had our biggest turnout for a while so not much time on court. Ended up in D which is my least favourite position, but after faffing round for the first few minutes think I had my best game there so far.

Calf exercises: 15 eccentric, 10 pairs each bent-leg and launch calf raises. Felt that doing the eccentrics first was a bad move - already felt 'strained' going into the others