Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Secret Training
The secret's out. Couldn't have Bozzy and Jas advantaged over all the non Attackpointers in the club by knowing what the time to beat on Wednesday would be! Legs feeling it from yesterday's effort.

C • What is secret training? 2

Test run of the long course at Resthills. Thought about doing it totally memory but did take a map, and referred to it maybe a half dozen times (one or two of them towards the end may have been more an excuse to slow and catch breath for a moment!). Not perfect, I must have been just about on 9 when I convinced myself I'd cut too much corner off the park and started doubling back to where it wasn't, and 10-11 I took the road and was convinced by the end it was indeed a lure to catch the fast runners rather than a genuine route choice option.

Jogged around most of the easy course for a warm-down (<1.85 km, I couldn't be bothered climbing up to the transformer box again, but did go to the corner of the park below it).

a couple of Australian magpie families around the softball park (42)

Long bridge loop. Complete opposite to last week's effort - went out for something shorter, but feeling good enough at each decision point to just keep going. All but 100% running, including 50 minutes continuous. Did start to get a bit hard in the home stretch from Pines Beach but that was maybe more psychological than anything. If I'm alternating between good weekends and bad weekends, then Taupo relay should go well.

Still can't get under Cobham bridge without flinching though!

Hamilton Lake. Was feeling sluggish but pushed through as much as I could - and looking at some of my split times was maybe actually going a bit faster than I thought. Not as fast as new official club dark-horse Scott Chaplow, who went under 20 and could have been even quicker with some better route choice options. Spike-rate shows that the brain side of the game was also not going too hot for me. Either I was struggling to run in a straight line or parts of this map are badly out of alignment (I'll accept a combination). But while I can pin the worst time loss (#14) on that, I don't think I can blame anything but brain failure for things like going to the west side of a hedge when control descriptions (barely referred to) and map (well I thought I was reading it) clearly indicate the east side.

I'll take that time in the context of where I'm at at the moment, but I really should only feel like I did afterwards when I've run close to a p.b. An even better final km than last week, as I was about 20:05 at the 4km mark, so slower to there but a faster time at the finish.