Training Log Archive: W

Usual spring event. I'd love to try to follow the contours, but I keep having to go around things and get totally thrown off. I'd say of the 19 controls, I nailed... maybe... 4 of them?

Very, very, pissed about how that went. Shoddy navigation at best, 100% unacceptable. It disturbs me that my next legitimate competition is one that actually matters. I feel neither confident in my navigation nor fit in my... fitness. I'm going to do track intervals on Tuesday. As punishment.

C • Complaints 5

Saturday morning fast Trax training, 30 x 1 minute with 1 minute off. Kept the pace under wraps for quite a while. There is a temptation to go hard because they're so short, but 30 of them will kick your ass. Would've liked to feel faster, though.

Well, this was an interesting day, I'm not sure I've ever done two workouts, one at 4 and one at 7. Tonight I was forced to go out to Blackfoot and help hang controls for next Wednesday's meet as part of my "officials" course. So since I managed to escape work early (I ran out of things to do). Ran partly around the university campus to tear down some of my ribbins.

The positive was that I got to do some contours only practice at Blackfoot, which I was really not very good with. Couldn't read the contours to save my life.

I was in a foul mood, so the best thing to do is to kick my ass up and down the trails. 15 x 2 minutes with 2 minutes rest at 10k pace but definitely faster than that. Actually, in retrospect, it was less fast, but I felt terribad. Some of the climb-y intervals felt okay, but for the effort, realistically my HR should've averaged more than just 165-ish.

Went out to run around the University of Alberta to hang my ribbons (tapes) for my Wednesday night meet. A lot of stopping and starting, but then took the long way home, so there was still running in there.

How did the meet go? Got some compliments on the course design, but technically its not "my" meet, since I'm not a "qualified" official, therefore I'm just the shadow planner.

Hills! And plenty of them. After a minor initial meet-up debacle with my running partners, we set off down Whitemud and hit up some hills, most of them steep this time around. 190 metres of climb, which is not bad considering.... well, prairies. Felt comfortable on the climbing, but not... fast. If that makes sense. I would appreciate more spring in my step.