Training Log Archive: Craig

Rachel didn't have any company for her long run and I really want up to running after doing metro last night so tried to keep her company on the CX bike instead. I rode from Darlington to Glen Forrest while she drove around but I hadn't really appreciated how tough a start I was giving myself, having mostly gone the opposite direction previously.
Stuck with Rachel for the first 20 minutes or so up the railway trail until she turned up a steep single track into Strettle Reserve that I didn't think I could manage. Spent the rest of the ride searching for Rachel on random tracks that my bike really wasn't designed for until I found her heading down to Moola Rd. Rolled the rest of the way back to gfg for morning tea.

Had a warm up hit with Liam to prepare for Saturday singles but ended up only playing one set against Byron, which I lost 4-2. Didn't really have a good reason not to play more, just didn't feel like it.

Metro series Karawara, medium course.
I was going to just stalk Amy but she decided to go with Penny so I made a last minute decision to do the medium. Set out to the east along with just about everyone else it seemed. I thought Riley would be the main competition and could see him ahead fit the first few but he turned back towards 24 and I never saw him again. Found myself running with Ron Marcus again until we hit the unmapped fence after 23. I dithered for a while before noticing an easier place to climb and deciding to go over. Ron followed and for the rest of the course I kept heading him coming into the controls as I was leaving without ever actually seeing him. We took different routes for the last couple and I edged a little further ahead to win by about 30 seconds.
Achilles was gradually getting more sore throughout. Never got really bad but I was consciously moderating the effort to try to keep it manageable.

Pump with CC. Just me again. Not really expecting this class to keep going after the Christmas break so might be only two weeks left.

Helped Liam coaching Rachel for a bit while Amy had rugby and then hit with Liam (mostly with him playing left handed) for a bit longer after they went home.

Didn't do anything in the morning, or Monday, so felt I had to join in for Rachel's intervals. Missed the start because the rest of the group took off while I thought we were still waiting to see if Andries turned up. Liam and I had been having our usual argument about me always telling him how crap he is at tennis so he had gone off to sulk somewhere and it took me a while to find him. Eventually set off with Liam to do a shortened warm up but he stormed off again just as I was trying to tell him to turn around so the warm up wasn't shortened as much as I intended but we did get to the start point soon after the others. Andries somehow managed to find us a couple of minutes later as well.
Session was a 15 minute tempo using an old metro course followed by 6x1min hills. I started out trying to follow Sten but he didn't go where I thought he was going and it was stupid trying to stay with him anyway so I switched to following Rachel. Pulled ahead of Rachel a bit heading up to Saw Ave and then planned a way too ambitious course trying to stick mostly to sand tracks. Saw Sten heading for home while I was still heading out and only had 5min left so I knew I was going to be way over time. I also knew I didn't want to do the hill reps so I thought a longer tempo wouldn't hurt. I was wrong, it did start to hurt quite a bit so I stopped trying to go to controls and just headed fairly directly back to the start. Kept going a little extra at the end to make the tempo up to 4km and then walked back to the tennis club.