Training Log Archive: Craig

Swanning around Swanbourne with Liam. Map divided into concentric circles rotated by different amounts. Set out to the east first through 1, 7, 26 and aiming for 9 then 10 but saw 30 further south and thought we should get that too. This left us having to go a long way back for 10, particularly with the out and back to get under the bridge after going to the top first. We all started together but Rachel and Amy split off on the way back to 10.
I still had no idea how long the whole course would be at this stage but suspected we wouldn't have time to get them all within an hour given how slow and inefficient we had been to that point. I was still keen to keep going for all of them anyway because I was enjoying the puzzle and Liam thought we had 90 minutes because the event time was listed as 8:30-10:00 on eventor so he was keen to keep going as well. Wasted a bit of time on a couple of controls and didn't push too hard so ended up 15 minutes late.

Short warm up with Liam, then went back to the carpark to look for Matt.

Woodbridge Parkrun.
Set out with the aim of running 4min/km for as long as possible to set Liam up for a shot at sub 20 if he was feeling up to it. Liam wasn't actually very keen on that idea but was always going to just try to stick with me regardless.
We were spot on 4min for the first km and it didn't feel too bad but it was already getting quite warm and I knew it was going to be a struggle for me to maintain. We dropped off the pace a little bit in the second km and it was starting to feel much too hot. After the turn I wasn't feeling as though I wanted to keep pushing so I asked Liam how he felt about it. If he wanted to push for sub 20 I could have tried to lift for another km or so but he wasn't feeling keen either so I just tried to keep it sustainable for me. With about 1km to go Liam started to go to the front and lift the pace slightly. I tried to stay close up to the last bridge where he lifted to sub 3min/km (without sprinting, he says) and put about 10 seconds on me over the last 100m or so. Course came up a little short (similar to Claisebrook though) so Liam still ran a 25 second parkrun PB of 20:23. I'm sure he could go sub 20 in cooler conditions. I will have to start training a bit more if I want to be there with him.

Painful plod around Reabold with Rachel. Matt stood us up but we tried to pace it as if he was there.

Short run in KP with a few surges when I felt like it. Didn't keep any of the surges going for very long because they didn't feel very good. Feeling stiff around the ankles.

Easy lap of KP with Matt after dinner. Lots of spiders out but managed to dodge them all.

Easy half hour in KP before work. Achilles a bit sore, need to keep running a bit more regularly.