With Josh along Newcastle foreshore. Ugh! Just so so humid. I was loving long runs overseas but this felt 10x harder than any of them and it was only a 60min run! It's the breathing, I don't remember that ever being so hard. It's like the air does nothing, or like i'm in a big cube of stagnant hot air, or a glass case of emotion. Either way i was really weak and i think it's going to take me a while to toughen up!
Jog out at Walka. First time i've seen kangaroos or heard a cow mooing on a run in a while! Super super humid which i didn't really enjoy, but I could smell pumpkin soup and cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to eat soup in this weather!? Madness.
Bit of a shocker of a way to finish the races... Lost alot of time in the beginning with mistakes and i lost all urgency towards the end. Overall it was a super fun camp and super fun races, but i'm pretty bummed about how i went. I know i hadn't done alot of speed work but i didn't quite realise how crazy far behind i'd be! And i dont think a whole lot of how I was feeling can be blamed on jetlag!
Not too bad until I slipped into a pit of blackberry bushes and had to get pulled out. Lost a solid 1:30-2minutes which was super super super frustrating! I guess it's lucky i was in the mass start though because if nobody else was around it could've been a while longer... Really fun sprint though! I just need to read the fine details more and be a bit more disciplined with my direction
Felt best about this urban sprint compared to the others this week. Really concentrated on my planning and it went alright. Slowed alooooott in the second half though, it's bad :|
Warm up.
3km time trial with a twist, relatively ok with but i struggled to push harder.
Then a little jogging and the PISTE test which i thought was really fun. 400m sprint while remembering where 4 controls were on a map with 4 controls and then you had to draw the controls on a blank map after.
Warm down.
Started off navigating ok but i just did not feel like i was in control at all when we got into super tricky bits. Got really exhausted by the end too.