Training Log Archive: mary

Race wrap up: 3days/73ks of stunning Swedish scenery, great company, plenty of running bants, pain joy pain etc, amazing food, sunshine, rain, thunder... Just an all round great time!!
Today was really tough... I really enjoyed the start because it was up the biggest hill of the race so far with a good rock scramble and we powered up it... But was then followed by about 1km downhill across hillside and the slant of the track just killed my tendons... And every step after that was pretty damn painful until about the 8km mark where it started to ease and I was able to regain a bit of pace... From there on, unlike yesterday, the kms just rolled over and before we knew it we were running into the finish of the total 73kms! I'm so proud of Nic and I, we had never done anything like this and we ran the entire race, and it was a pretty bloody stunning race... It feels really good right now!

Stage 2 of icebugX, was wet out of 10! Felt like head wasn't quite there to run 23kms at the start but both Nic and I really picked up morale after getting out onto some cool rocks!! Unfortunately said rocks also gave us both quite a bit of pain in different parts of our legs so the rest was a slog! Again we had the speed in the terrain and kept overtaking people here and then getting caught back up on the flat roads, we did pip old mate in the fluro and walk up/sprint down hills girl so maybe they were our personal goals checked... Along with not having walked any of icebugX so far... Yuhuuuu!! Lunch at the end was just AH MAZE ING... I was the happiest person on earth... Before becoming the coldest in my mad dog safety blanket... Neck, back, legs, everything sore now... So time for some R&R (including massive gourmet dinner) before tomorrow's pain/relief!!

Bloody hell... Can I just say... What a day for Nic and I, we are both so stoked to have run the entire first stage of icebugX... We didn't really head out with a goal as we both didn't know what to expect (and we still don't for the next 2 days) and it really hurt... We were both in pain for the last 8km or so, but we took it slow and ran the entire thing! One high point was that an orienteering background gave us a clear advantage in the rocks and up hills (which weren't even that steep) which is where we gained most time on other people! I didn't really get any of the tendon tightness/pain that I've been struggling with either so that was brill!!! Official time is longer, including stops, and we had a small rest at the 10km mark for the ferry off the island... All in all stunning scenery, top notch weather, beaut company... Bring on tomorrow's only slightly shorter stage..

C • Quote Mary, 4/9/2015: 2

Just a little bit of massage and stretching before heading off to icebugX

Took the bugs out for a warm up for the weekend... Tried out this Fartlek sesh I had found on some running blog... 30s hard 90rest then 30/75, 30/60, 30/45, 30/30, 30/15, and then repeal back up again... Was ok bit slow with the long recov ints... Glad I didn't go for something harder than this today though cos the legs are wrecked, the had nothing after the intervals in the warm down, and I'm starting to think I've done a bit too much this week and not prepared well for icebugX on the weekend... A lot of massage on the plane tonight and will take tomorrow very easy :) pretty pumped none the less!!!

Was going to do a fartlek sesh today, but legs were quite tight, shins hurting and got quite hungry running... Had been on my feet all day... And real stressed that my legs will be tight for icebugX on the weekend, so decided just to take it easy and will try do some into tomorrow morning, before heading over to Sweden!

Massage tendons, yoga, stretch and core