Training Log Archive: Craney

After a morning stroll up Mt Painter with Gracie and Florence, I thought I'd do a long run home via Blackie, Arboretum and Oakey Hill. Nice route. Took it fairly steady and felt alright. Fairly cool day although very humid so I sweated quite a bit. Clos Crossing technically closed still, but no-one doing anything so I snuck through.

7x o-intervals on Cooleman at 1:5000. Found it much easier to pay attention to the detail when it wasn't a pain trying to focus on it. As a result managed much better flow than in recent weeks. Legs were still a bit tired - mainly from Thursday I think.

Lunch run around Parlo House, Stirling Park and the lakefront. Hammies were particularly tight early on but got a little better as the run progressed - although I got tireder too, which neutralised any benefit to my pace/enjoyment.

8x5mins on an extended HFW. First few felt solid/comfortable on the bike path, but turned into quite an effort as it changed to uphill firetrail from Curtin onwards. Good to get a longer interval session under the belt though.

10min steady warm-up, 2min recoveries, 20min easy run home.

Morning trip out to the Salmon Ponds with Jan and Bert, but just had time for a short run around the Domain before getting our flights home. Felt a little bit stiff on this run but nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine and to run along a newly formed MTB track.

Spent most of the day fishing off the Tasman peninsular with Bert. As is usually the case with me, I only caught flathead.

Fun non-NOL long sprint race at Pittwater - came 2nd to Shep. Nice course through the faster forested dunes. Started off ok enjoying the chance to navigate properly without any pressure, but came very unstuck at #5 - turns out there were a heap of very small (<1m) features that were (understandably) unmapped that I thought were the ~2.5m high features beyond. Learning: need back up techniques and distance judgment. Rest of the course was very pleasant and reasonably successful though - just smallish hesitations at #12 and #15. Good to see Shep back in the game!
https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Pittwater-Bush-Spri...

Anyway, lots of good learning generated this weekend. Not sure if there's one obvious thing to take out other than basically you have to pay attention all the time when it's technical like this.

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Bert (aka Hagar the Horrible) took me along to Hobart Hash House Harriers this evening. Nice run from Howrah up to Waverley, which I hadn't been on before. Of course being near the front meant I got to explore lots of dead ends and false trails. Legs felt better than I thought they might. Lots of good banter, beer and bbq food after.