Training Log Archive: W

COURSE 1 - Splits

COURSE 1 - Splits

Long, long, long travel day starting at 2AM to make it to Ireland. Had a meeting in the afternoon with a potential customer who bought something else, then got stuck in traffic as I drove down to our B&B south of Dublin. But, then I asked where I should run, and the weird lady suggested the cliff trail to Bray, so I did that.

Got half way, and it said I'd run 4k from Greystones and only had 2 more k to Bray, so I figured, I'll go the rest of the way. Then I saw a trail up to the hill between the two towns and I thought, well, I HAVE to go up there. So I did. And discovered there were tons of people up there and an amazing view, but I had no camera. But, found a different trail to run home. So, my short run on 3 hours of sleep turned out to be a wicked awesome 1:25 along the east coast of Ireland. Fantastic.

Ran around the half of the Jyvasjarvi. It really disappoints me I haven't done any tempo runs around the lake this year so far. I've really run out of time to do those kind of things anymore, unless I wanted to get home at 9 and eat around 10. That really bums me out, and I know my fitness is suffering because of it. I still get to race regularly on the weekends, which is my one saving grace, but its not effective.

Well, I did a few 2 minute sprinty-s through the woods. Sort of a workout. Sort of not. Oh well.

Jogged over to Ladun Maija to renenact and orienteering course from a few weeks ago that I missed. There's actually some pretty nice terrain right there, but the map is super old and sucks. Made a quite a few mistakes because I prined the map off from routegadget which is also poor quality, and give there was no controls out, it was tough to find some stuff sometimes. Like pits. Tried to do a few of the legs quickly, as well, to get a bit of intensity in.

I find that in training, if there's nothing to find, like in this workout, I lose focus really easily and stop paying attention. It makes training like this super ineffective. Like, super ineffective. Like, why even do it? I just don't know how to switch my brain on effectively.

Was originally going to make this a trail tempo run, but I felt... ugh, so I didn't. However, once I got around to Vuorilampi, I felt good enough to go up to the top, and then single track it down to Killeri and hope. So, although I felt bad, I did a whole bunch of fun downhill single track which made my stomach stop gurgling. This running time used to get me 16.5k, but I seem to be slowing down.

And I can tell, I'm slowing down. And my legs hurt.