Training Log Archive: Craig

Jogged around Glen Forrest looking for potential control sites. Left heel sore on most of the uphill sections. Felt quite good at times and couldn't resist taking on a cyclist up Marnie Rd at one point. Pretty warm due to the late start.

C • did you win against the bike? 2

Event: Atwell MetrO
 

Warm up for metro series. Did an easy lap around the school then a lap around the lake. All going fine until I stopped for a drink near the control on the other side of the lake. Chest felt a bit funny as soon as I stopped and my heart rate started climbing instead of dropping. Heart rate peaked at 185 a bit later and then again a minute or two after stopping. Finally settled down about 5 minutes before the start.

Metro Series Atwell. This was supposed to be a tempo run but I didn't want to push it after my heart issues in the warm up so I started out easy. Found myself running behind tRicky for the first few controls so after 14 I went to 16 instead of 17 to try to avoid being tempted into a race. I had thought about going back to 17 and then 19 from 21 but when I got to 21 I couldn't face running back across the ovals so followed Rachel to 23 (she was at 14 with me). Followed Rachel and Graham through 24, 29, 27, 26, 28, 25, 20 going about the same speed as them before deciding to go straight from 20 to 15 to get away from them. Control was missing at 15 where I stood around for about 1 minute contemplating what to do. My heart had been fine up to this point so I decided to get an extra control and run a bit harder for the rest of the course to get a bit of proper tempo in. Didn't actually get much faster because I hit the headwinds here but I was obviously thinking too much about running harder because I ran straight past 3 losing about 20 seconds. I thought I would struggle to make the top 10 tonight so I was a bit surprised to come in 3rd only 30 seconds behind tRicky and 3 minutes behind Ben. If 15 hadn't been stolen I could have been very close to Ben.

Easy 5k loop. Feeling a bit flat but not awful. Left heel much better today.

30min easy + 30min build. Legs felt quite good on the flat but struggled a bit on the hills. Left heel sore between achilles attachment and ankle for the whole run. Heart rate seemed low today.

C • Building 3

Easy lap of KP with Ben plus to his office and back at the end. Felt ok, nice to be consistently feeling good enough to enjoy running for a change.

Resting hr was taken before getting out of bed but I checked it again at work at about 11am and got down to 36 which is a new record I think. Felt a bit funny after lunch so checked it again at about 2pm and it was mostly around 53 with little bursts of around 80 for 5 or 10 seconds every minute or so. Went back to normal after about half an hour and seemed fine while running.

Long run out past rehab area and back of Little Possums to the sculpture park then out to Pimelia Mycumbene and back home along the railway trail. Felt reasonably good from the start and heart rate seemed to be normal today so pace was a bit higher than normal, probably a bit too high. Started to get lots of dodgy high heart rate readings from about half way but I felt fine so I think it was just a problem with the heart rate monitor. It dropped back into the 130s when I adjusted the strap a bit with 5 minutes to go so I think it was just caused by the strap slipping a bit low and maybe the battery is getting low too. Calves feeling very sore to stretch before starting but didn't notice them much while running.
Longest run since the City to Surf marathon in August.

Easy 5k loop. Calves a bit tight but not as bad as I expected. Legs felt ok for first 50m then felt a bit tired the rest of the way. Heart rate seemed a bit down again. Max of 131 was an odd spike near the end going down Bailey Rd to Casino Rd, may have been dodgy reading or just a dodgy heart. Heart rate back to 48 within 10 minutes of finishing.