Training Log Archive: fletch

Event: NavDash 7 - City Beach
 

Absolutely rubbish run.

Flustered before the start after a not terribly enjoyable family lunch and only just making the start, not enough warm-up. Decided that nav would be easier than a campus map so just went flat out, but didn't focus on keeping map contact, which was a critical error given the fact that the controls were (as they should be) hung on the back of trees so they weren't clearly visible from the approach side and I ran straight past a couple. Add to that 2 small errrors where I misread which feature was in the middle of the cirlce and so looked at the wrong thing and one massive one where I didn't see a grass strip I was looking for and ended up running right around the block, and leaving number 10 thinking I was at 11 only to return 25 seconds later to work it out (oxygen debt from runnig hard up hill)and the end result was pretty embarrassing. Add to that the fact that despite my running efforts I didn'tget a single fastest split and it was quite a forgettable day.

Wouldn't have beaten Oscar or Craig anyways...

Insufficient half-hearted warm up. No Cool down.

Course 1 - Splits

Brighton to Trigg and return, then south towards the Floreat drain. Ran out of time and glad of it, as hip flexors were again feeling sore by the end. Made it down to 'track 16'. 2 runs in a week - I'm a machine...

Rode today in my old commuter shoes. I reckon they're mre comfortable than the new ones, but a large part of that might be that the sole is softer/more flexible. That may be accentuated by wearing them with orthoics. Anyways, 5 min w/u 4min on, 2 min off x 7, short cooldown. Race home. (in car)
Legs burning pretty badly for large chunks of it, probably more than I was expecting for the level of effort I thought i was putting in at the time. Must be the effects of getting back into a half decent training week.

Uninspired ride to work. Legs feeling the fact that I've actually trained the last 2 days. Not as cold as the weatherman said it would be. Was definitely worse on Monday.

And home again. Pretty solid effort. Felt better than I was expecting. Knee was better today than yesterday, so it probably was the cleats being in he wrong spot.

A mostly sand loop including a couple of little hills, from Floreat beach, near the drain, up the right hand fork in the path, left thru the carpark and back up the path the other way, then looping around the sign on the beach that warns you that you are standing on top of a pipe...

7 x 2min on, 90 sec jog recovery. Pushed pretty hard, hurt quite a bit, but not too much. The sort of session where the fartlek bit would have been 40 minutes, plus the warm-up and recovery if a) I was doing it on my own and b) there was any daylight left.

Off to City beach to run under the lights next week

Running on sand in shoes is poo (but not as poo as running on the bitumen or limestoney bits barefoot)

First 'real' ride with new shoes. Left medial knee a bit sore. Don't know if this is because this is the foot where the cleat is out of position by the most or because I don't have orthotics in. Will adjust the cleat before the ride home.
Felt much better this morning, rested and full of energy, so looking forward to a week of routine and normal training.

Adjusted the cleaats on my shoes while supervising in the gym, then off home. Not as much breeze as usual, so pushed pretty hard, particularly in the second half. Felt pretty good.

Almost did something active this evening as my energy levels appear to have returned to somwhere near normal and my low-level but annoying headache has lessened, but thought it better to just write off this week nad see if I'm right to go for a full training week starting tomorrow morning.

Currently feeling like much of my training consistency this year has come to nothing after the last few weeks.