Training Log Archive: Craig

Easy late morning run with Rachel. A bit warm but much less painful than it would have been without the hour of loosening up before starting. Almost taken out by a cyclist running a red light when crossing Thomas at the end.

Easy ride to Tawarri and back with Rachel and Amy.

Metro Series Mullaloo.
Expected a bunch of controls along the beach and got what I expected. They all looked quite close together and I wanted to run them with the wind so headed that way out of the start. Considered heading in to 113/114 but didn't quite look worth it. Wasn't sure about 110 so tried to plan the rest of the route before 111 and decided I didn't need 110 so left it out. I had been just behind Matt Brierley up to that point but he went to 110 while I went to 112 so I didn't see him again until 122 where he was going the opposite direction which seemed a bit odd. I think he may have got disoriented leaving 130 and completely screwed up his route. He ended up 16 minutes behind me when he had been running faster than me.
I was pretty set on my route up to 121 but not sure of the last 4 controls. Initially I was thinking 119-118-116-117 but revised that to 120-105-103-117 and then again to 120-105-102-103. I measured them all later and each revision knocked off about 100m so I think I got it right in the end. Andries seemed very surprised by my distance and it was about 400m less than tRicky so I think it must have been pretty good. The beach running would have slowed things down a bit but it wasn't that bad going with the wind, certainly not 400m worth. Finished second, 2min behind tRicky and 4min ahead of Hadrien.

Planned to have a hit with Liam but Nic phoned looking for a hit just before we left so I just hit with Liam for 20-30 minutes before Nic took over and I switched to hitting with Rachel on the grass. Quite busy at the club with all the hard courts and most of the grass courts in use. Grass looking much better after only a couple of weeks with the new greenkeeper.

Bullied Amy into taking her new bike out for a little ride while I ran. Had to wait for Amy a bit early on but picked up the pace a lot after Roberto Busi came flying past us up the little hill before UWA.

C • Roberto 4

Got back from the run with Amy just after Rachel got home from work and she wanted to go for a run too so I thought I'd better keep her company since it is her birthday. Made it about half way before everything started to hurt a lot more. Small detour at the end to get some ice-cream.

To the causeway and back with Rachel.

Down to Sunset Hospital and back with Matt and Rachel. More sore than usual.

Morning hobble out the peninsula again but in the reverse direction so we could stop in the nice beach towards the end for a swim. Want sure I wanted to swim but it was much nicer than at Middleton beach on Saturday so I was glad I did. Walked back with Amy after the swim.