Training Log Archive: nh

Warm up before Mt Kaukau event, 15 min up, 15 min down

Club event at Mt Kaukau, came 1st by around 4 min.

Had a good warm up before-hand, and felt good going into the race. Forgot to start my Garmin, and remembered halfway up the hill, on the way to control 1. Lost a lot of energy contouring around the hills as it was very steep and hard to run. Was too high on 2, but I think it may have been too low also, after checking it out when collecting controls. Lost a lot of energy on the hills in the heat too, and I was so tired going up them, especially towards the end. Didn't realize the spur that 4 was on was different to the longer spur, and stopped too short. If I'd looked up I would have seen the flag strait away. Didn't look at my map on the approach to 6, came too low and had to readjust. If I'd run straiter I would have avoided the gorse too. Bad route-choice to 9, have run here before so I thought I knew where to go, but if I didn't think this I would have looked at my map and picked a better route. Could have been straiter to 13 (compass).

Basically I just need to look at my map more and I should be sweet, rather than running blind. Getting fitter on the hills would help, too.

Control collecting after the event

Ran up the pylon track and down the spur, then down the Pukatea stream and home. Didn't feel the sore foot I had before at all, so it must have been a mental injury

10 min run
4min effort, 4 min recovery x 4 at 85%
18min recovery.

Rest day today. Finished the waterfront map though

Afterwork sprint race around Churton Park, so not really a sprint. Felt like I had quite sore joints after the race, probably from the pounding on the concrete.

Ran with Jens up Mt Kaukau, so we could go running together. Would have ended up running faster on the hills if I'd gone solo but it was still a good exercise, especially with the sprint race tomorrow I didn't want to go too fast.

Interval training in Wilton Bush. So much fun doing this session, got to run real fast along the trails. Got a bit reckless on the last rep though and tripped on a root and face-planted down the hill.

5 min warm-up
1 min run
2min effort, 2 min recovery (536m, flat)
2min effort, 2 min recovery (350m, flat, up-hill)
2min effort, 2 min recovery (407m, up-hill, down)
2min effort, 2 min recovery (371m, up-hill)
2min effort, 2 min recovery (370m, up-hill)
2min effort, 2 min recovery (467m, down)
10 min run

C • i love intervals there too 2

Low intensity ride home from work and around the streets of Wilton. Well, it would have been low intensity if I hadn't fallen off my bike down the stairs and landed on my face.