Training Log Archive: Craig

Easy wet long run through John Forrest with Rachel.

A bit of red ball tennis with Liam and Amy, then some green ball with Liam.

Event: Ballajura Lakeshore (Metro Series 2015-16)
 

Day off for Rachel so thought I should take the opportunity to play Saturday singles. Started poorly losing 0-4 2-4 to Ian H. Took the first set off Greg but failed to win a game in the next two. Finally played Woody who beat me 6-0 6-0 when we played in the club champs. This time I held my opening serve but lost the first set 1-4. In the second I was ahead 3-0 and had two set points on my serve at 3-1 but couldn't finish it off, going down in a tie breaker.
Probably not the ideal preparation for a race this afternoon.

Warm up for MetrO, mostly laps of the oval.

Metro Ballajura. I wanted to make sure I pushed myself tonight which I thought would be difficult to do on my own, particularly after tennis, so the plan was to follow Sten out of the start to make it a head to head race. I intended to follow until I had my whole route planned and then stick with my plan regardless of what Sten did but with so many close controls early on it was difficult to plan very far ahead. When we got to 9 Sten headed for 11 and I had been thinking I would go to 8. I didn't have my full route planned but I felt Sten was going to keep pulling away so I needed to split to have any chance.
Passed Cameron at 23 then around the lakes and back to 11 by myself. When I left 2, with 3 controls to go, Sten appeared just behind me. It seemed pretty clear that we were going to have the same route home from there so the race was on. I got to 10 first and tried to put in a surge up the little rise towards 16. For a second or two I felt good and thought I had a chance but then the effort hit me, Sten came past on the downhill and I knew it was over. I tried to keep it close into the finish but never felt a chance of getting back in front.

Easy run with 6x100m on the top oval at the end.

8 miles with 5x600m, 90 second jog recovery
Legs felt tired, again, but surprisingly still managed to run a little faster than my target of 2:15. Maybe a small sign of progress?

Easy run in KP after work, mostly on sand tracks. So many more people around at 5pm than at 5am.

Another week, another loss, against peppy grove this time. Doubles with Rhett 0-4 3-4, with Greg 0-4 2-4. Singles 4-3 1-4 3-4. Only bright spot was Rhett winning his singles 4-0 4-0. Kind of felt on top in my singles until my opponent worked out I had no answer if he approached the net to my backhand.

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