Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Certainly more friendly conditions than this time last week. Did the Capital City trail loop with Bruce, a solid, steady run (and perhaps a touch quicker than I normally do long ones) without ever hitting real heights. Only started to feel that I was fading in the last couple of minutes, and that's not a bad time to feel like fading, but as long runs go this wasn't particularly high on the degree-of-difficulty scale.

Started to smell a hint of smoke towards the end - I suspect we'll get to know about smoke a lot better by the end o this week :-(

Now for an afternoon in front of the cricket - it would be hard-pressed to live up to yesterday evening's fireworks but you never know.

C • pace 3

Got into the hills today - and Bulleen has plenty of them if you know where to look. Didn't quite do the hills I intended to do because it seemed to be National Road Resurfacing Day today and after going around a couple of construction sites there was one in the way which wasn't crossable, but still found some pretty reasonable ones, and responded OK on them (at least by the standards of the last few weeks, when anything vertical has been a bit of a struggle).

First half-hour was awful, but gradually got going after that - the nice section along the Anniversary Trail cutting down through Camberwell is always good at getting the spirits going. Second half was pretty solid. Smoke not quite as bad as yesterday (could actually see a hint of blue in the sky) and only started to warm up towards the end.

C • Creaking bones and muscles 4

Event: Victorian Sprint Championships
 

A pleasantly smooth run, 10 minutes or so shorter than usual for a Wednesday morning as a token concession to the Sprint Champs tonight (you can tell how seriously I take the Sprint Champs). Weirdest aspect was the red disc on the eastern horizon - the smoke haze is well and truly back. At first I wasn't sure whether it was the moon or the sun and then remembered that if it was a full moon it wouldn't be in the east at 7 in the morning.

Navigated OK, with a couple of iffy route choices but otherwise OK, but no speed whatsoever. Sprinting may not be exactly my strongest point but I should still be a lot closer than 3 minutes to Bruce (and definitely shouldn't be losing to Ian Dodd).

C • I agree 6

5k time trial on the Tan. Started promisingly but then faded away a bit; I'm so used to doing the 'normal' Tan that it was a bit of a change trying to get my pacing right from a different starting point and not racing against anyone. Didn't expect a brilliant time during a heavy base-training phase but would have liked to have been closer to or under 18. Cool and dry, a bit windy at times but couldn't ask for much better conditions at this time of year.

Getting to/from the tan for the above.

Obviously someone from the Kazakhstan Ministry of Tourism has just been on a fact-finding mission to regional Australia, because I saw today that there is a proposal to build a Big Yurt in Astana. At least it's not a statue of Borat...

C • Your installation as a Kahn 1

A reasonably typical MFR Monday night blob from Rob and Anna's place around the Tan. Impressed at the number of post-Anaconda people (including the soloists) that showed - I felt lazy for only having done 2.5 hours yesterday. As is often the way when we run together, spent most of the run discussing with Anna how to run the state/country/planet and whether the ALP is going to get the opportunity to do the second of these any time soon. Declined the opportunity to watch the DVD of all the election ads from the last campaign.