Training Log Archive: Craig

Ran over to my parents place for dinner. Down the railway trail to Boya, up the track through Greenmount just East of the quarry to the road at the top of the hill then a couple of little ups and downs through to Mayhew Rd. Right knee a bit sore where things attach to the outside of the kneecap for the first 10 minutes or so. Felt the same as when Rachel was massaging the lateral quads a few hours earlier.

"5k" time trial. Not sure I should have been doing this as I feel as though I might be just managing to hold off Rachel's illness but I was keen to find out just how unfit I am before starting to train properly again. Felt pretty good at the start and felt fast along the powerline (with a tailwind) but started to tire pretty badly by the top of the long hill. Held it together ok for the rest of the course but never felt fast after that. Pretty pleased with the time as I was expecting a lot worse. A long way off my best (16:43) but I'm confident I can improve quite quickly if I can just start training properly. No pain worth mentioning.

Compared splits with my previous time trial in June last year and it seems I started even faster than I thought and didn't hold it together as well as I thought.
23/6/06 Today
3:38 3:28 leaving powerline
4:19 4:20 top of long hill
5:27 5:45 top of O'Connor
3:46 3:59 finish
17:11 17:31 Total

Run to the start of time trial loop plus a few run throughs and back home from Moola Rd.

Craig's 5k time trial - Splits

Easy ride to work from Woodbridge Lakes. Tried to follow the bike paths around the river through Garvey Park and past Ascot for a change. Didn't get as badly lost as usual around Ascot mostly because I slowed down to follow some old guy doing about 20km/h who seemed to know where he was going. Knee was ok but felt it enough to be a bit worried about the ride home. So worried that I actually did a little stretching.

Back to Woodbridge Lakes by the usual route. Knee was fine, better than on the way in. Maybe I should stretch more often.

Seems very easy to let the days pass without doing anything at the moment.
Feeling a bit stiff and sore around both achilles and had a sore throat when I woke up.

Usual lap of KP with Ivan and Wally. I struggled to keep up at the start but Wally dropped off pretty quickly and I started to warm up. Felt a little heavy in the legs but not too bad and Ivan was keeping the pace pretty solid. Got a bit sore around the left achilles for a while at around 30 minutes, felt as though it was between the achilles and the ankle on both the inside and outside. Light rain for the whole run.

Easy run around 5k time trial loop. Thinking of doing a TT on Thursday or Saturday and it has been a while so thought it would be good to remind myself what I'm in for. Ran the second half pretty solidly with a couple of surges to get a feel for race pace (20:41 for the 4.3k TT course). No pain in left heel or right knee but right achilles was a little sore at times.

Couldn't think of a reason to do anything.