Training Log Archive: Craig

Feeling a bit jealous of all Liam's tennis and I'm not playing pennants this week so I rode over to the courts and hit a bunch of serves. Jeremy was there doing the same thing so I spent a few minutes trying to return his serves but I only got a racquet on about half of them. He was serving a lot better than me. Spent a few minutes at the hitting wall on the way home.

Decided to do the long run a day early since we were going out to the hills and I kind of wanted to do this one in the hills to get an idea of how realistic my goal of going sub 4 at 6 inch is. Session was 15 miles with 12 miles at marathon pace. Did the first couple of miles relatively easy, but still faster than I would normally start, then picked up the pace a bit. Quads were feeling a bit sore, not sure why, but apart from that I was feeling reasonably good. A bit warm early on with the sun coming out so I was a little concerned about my decision not to carry anything. Decided to aim for Mundaring so I could find a tap to get a drink. Ducked through a bit of bush to get onto the golf course thinking I would run through there to get a drink at the sports grounds but as soon as I hit the fairway a magpie started making a lot of noise and it's mate flew straight at me, at head height, from about 100m away. I got the feeling they were not going to go away quickly so I headed straight back through the bush and out to the heritage trail and got a drink near the sculpture park.
Started feeling a bit tired on the climb around the back of the Coppin Rd waste transfer station. Finished feeling as though I could have kept pushing for a while longer but wouldn't have been too keen on going around again. Hadn't looked at the pace at all while running so I was pleased to see it was well under 5min/km when I checked at the end. The sub 4 dream is still alive but it won't be easy. Definitely still want to be making some improvements over the next 6 weeks.

Brought out the wild horses for the first time in a long while. They got pushed to the back of the cupboard at one stage and I don't like them enough to have bothered to dig them out again until now. Felt like hiking boots to begin with but not too bad once I got used to them.
Supposed to be 19km today but I don't feel I've been coping with the 3 long runs a week so I'm going to split the second midweek longer run and do half of it on the rest day. I feel as though two 10km runs will be a lot easier on the body.
Seemed quite warm and sunny today. I remember at one stage feeling as though I was running too close to the middle of the day, then worked out it must be about 6:20am.

5x1k at 5k pace with 2min jog recovery at Rosalie.
Super tired warming up and that really didn't change throughout the warm up. Felt a little better after a few drills and strides but I was glad the gps wasn't showing me any pace or times throughout the session. Still haven't looked at the times but I expect they will be slow. Supposed to be doing 16k total but I cut the warm down short because I need to get to work early.

Looked at the times now. At least they were consistent and sub 4.
Even reps were very slightly more into the wind/uphill.
3:52.3
3:55.2
3:52.3
3:54.3
3:50.6

Feeling very stiff and sore in bed and really didn't want to get up after going to bed at midnight after tennis. Did a bit of rollering before heading out and I didn't actually feel quite as decrepit as I expected too. Joined in for one lap of Rachel and Virpi's intervals at the end.

Pennants vs Sorrento. Got thrashed again. Definitely feels as though we are in the wrong division but maybe it will be good for our games.