Training Log Archive: fletch

Banks-Narrows and return. Started Sth Perth side, came back past the silly-wheel. Strated pretty glassy but had a bit of a headwind on the return journey.

Event: NavDash 4 - Minim Cove
 

Hmmmm. What to take out of this race. Felt like I was running well from the start, but made three large blunders, one of them rather catastrophic and lost a total of 3 minutes over 3 legs. Almost everything else I spiked and felt like there was a bit less hesitation generally (small issues on 9 and 11). Lacked motivation after dropping over 2 minutes at 4, but was clearly still running fast enough to win. Ah well. Next time. Eventually my brain and my legs will operate at the same speed and I'll get it all right.

Solid warm-up. Felt oK. Calves a bit tight from beach run yesterday.

Men's - Splits

Same as usual. Gonna switch to runnign the dune trails next term to avoid complete boredom. VMO tired and a little sore in the last 15 minutes.

Same as last week
1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1, 1 minute recoveries. Never felt particularly strong. Mind-numbingly boring. Will have to vary things a bit more or I will go crazy. Maybe I should spend some of the school's PE budget on some spin DVDs...

C • Le 2

Struggled pretty bad for the first half, then got going a bit and enjoyed being pushed to work by the tailwind.

Wasn't really looking forward to the ride home given the wind. Started off slow and uninspired and got more and more so as it progressed. Amazingly not quite my slowest ride home ever. Certainly one of the laziest. Too many more of these and I'll have to stop logging commutes.
If I don't feel a bit more inspired for the windtrainer session tomorrow I may have to have a day off on Sunday... or earlier... (but preferably not saturday - I've got some carboshotz to win.)

4 x 2km at City Beach Oval, 5 minute recovery. Based on last week's session I set myself the target of 7 minutes per rep, which I thought would be pretty challenging given how windy it was, still I was pretty dark after doing the first rep in 7:11, and it felt hard. Fortunately, as with last week, it was just a symptom of inadequate warm-up, as I did the next 3 much better (although I had serious doubts about being able to do the 4th rep at the end of the second)

7:11
6:58
6:54
6:56

At that happy stage like early 2003, where I feel like I'm running pretty strongly and I'm expecting to improve every session.

Oh well, so much for the gradual upward trend in training hours. Did 39 seconds less training in March than I did in Feb. Should have run those intervals tonight a bit slower :)

Big differences were that this month I wasn't forced to commute to work for 6 or seven consecutive workdays, and I really did get into a good routine after the 6hr rogaine. For someone who has hardly ever trained more than 4 times a week it's a bit weird to go 3 weeks without a rest day. Pleasingly, my knee feels better now than it did at the start of the month.

All that's left now is to gradually reintroduce some long stuff. Haven't done any since school started.

**EDIT** Looked at Tooms' log. Apparently we warmed up/cooled down slower than last week, so I got my time after all :)

Running a bit late afte rEsther decided that the end of daylight savings meant it was time to get up at 5:50am. Pretty average ride in. Almost made it to the staff meeting in time...

Oh so tired.