Training Log Archive: George

goorooyaroo and mulligan's flat handicap event. maybe not quite a marathon but the longest course i've ever done. made it easier that it was really open almost the whole time. shoulder was pretty good actually and feels ok now too - in fact it feels better than it did before i started the course this morning :S didnt' get around to asking liz about it either. oh well. on the other hand (haha well actually neither are on my hands) my blister/calluses hurt. i think they're sorta more calluses but they hurt lots like blisters and i've been getting them for a while but now they've sorta spread lower on my foot so it hurts even walking barefoot from the pressure :(
Did okay navigationally - it wasn't very hard - more a running thing. Could have been a lot more careful near the circle but i sorta just figured i'd see the control which i usually did. though one time i went past it before realising and another time i ran to the boulder cluster. ah well it was fun but i think i should take navigating more seriously each and every time.

C • 10.8ks of orienteering 5

Well... I was tired from not much sleep coz i was at a sleepover last night, and couldn't be bothered warming up :O, partly coz i didn't know how I was going to get home and so wanted to be back to find someone to get a lift with sooner.
Ran past the second control which was really stupid. Other than that did okayish I guess, but my shoulder was sore. What was weird was that instead of just being tight and annoying while running, it also actually hurt to lift my arm and stuff after I'd cooled down, and still hurts now. Hmm.. a little worrying.
Oh yeah and on Thursday Gerard said it seemed like my left shoulder was swinging forward a bit while I ran, which is the shoulder that's usually sore. Sooo I'm thinking maybe that's why it gets sore? Tried to think about not doing it today but hey, I was trying to navigate.

C • i understand 1

cross country training.
8 x hard for 45 seconds then 75 seconds walking in between.
It sounded pretty easy - much longer recovery than hard plus walking not jogging, but it wasn't, I guess coz we were running pretty fast.

Jogging lap, drills, stretching, run throughs beforehand.
Jogging and stretching after.

20 mins to training, at a decent pace coz i was going to be late. Had an almost stitch and sore shoulder muscle but kept going anyway.
Started with about 20 secs break :(
Ran for a while, stretched for a bit, ran for a bit, spirit level hill intervals for 10 mins, kept running for the rest of the BL 40 mins. shoulder started hurting again towards the end but, well, it was towards the end... so i just kept going and ignored it.
didn't have to run home coz anna was giving luke and olle a lift home anywayz :D

1:15 Hard 1:15 Recovery 1:15 Hard 1:35 Recovery
x 3.5 (7 reps, every second one with a bit longer recovery)
lol that isn't very clear but oh well...
Very hard work but it felt really good to do some excercise again - feels like i haven't done any properly for ages. maybe saturdays event didn't count coz i was half asleep or something..
gerard seems to think i'm doing good though :D probs just coz he thought i was really crap originally and now he knows i'm only semi-crap but oh well.

warm up, warm down, run throughs, stretching.

it was soooooooooooooo COLD today. INCREDIBLY cold. ice wind cold.
brrrrrr

tennis was cancelled coz it got real windy and raining :( i feel so slack in terms of not having trained for like an entire weeek! and i think i eat less healthily when i don't train as much too which makes it even worse.
i've gotten all unmotivated :(
but hopefully having official training (cross country tues and thurs and blue lightning wed) should help me get back into it this week

C • psych up george 2