Training Log Archive: fletch

Not much of a warm-up. Was a bit late, but also after a couple of trips from the car to the startling, I had figured out that my legs felt pretty good - a happy surprise after yesterday.

Final Championship run of the season, so I snuck out before hewing into work for an athletics trip back to Perth. Thought I'd try to start hard enough to get everyone else thinking of second once I was out of sight, in case I overcooked it or was struggling to run out the distance.
After about 6km, it got really skatey and muddy and it felt like I was running in clown shoes that were trying to pull off my feet with every step. Got a bit easier once I stopped trying to lope my way through it and shortened the stride and lowered the heel lift.
After about 9km, it got less muddy and I eventually got back into a pretty good rhythm and felt like I was running pretty well at the end. GPS to come later.

4 from 4 for the year. Big fish in little pond syndrome now complete ;)

Event: WA Sprint Orienteering Championships (NavDash 6)
 

Proper warm up, that included first a slow walk and later a jog with a map. That felt a bit weird. Run throughs etc as per normal. Token cool down after race as well.

A bit hesitant on the first for no reason other than seeing people run away out of it in the wrong direction, 2 came up really early and that jolted me back into 1:5000 scale. Felt rusty and very stop start, but knew that I was moving OK between the controls. Slightly poor route to 5, felt much smoother from about 7 through to 12, but having that one moved slightly led to a changed route as I stepped back out onto the path and I struggled through the short direction changing legs to 15, where I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and had a little think before running the last 5 metres to the control.
Like many I was a bit thrown by the SI box gone from 17, not finding reserve boxes on the map, then trying not to spike my fingers as I impaled a corner of the map on what was left on the punch. Took a while to find myself on the map again as I wandered across the bridge towards 18. Pretty clean through to the third last, where I took a few steps down the path, decided I couldn't get through that way, backtracked and went around, when I could have just continued on :(

I had felt like I wasn't pushing hard enough, but was getting pretty knackered by the end, and I couldn't have pushed harder and stayed in control of the navigation. It all went a fair bit better than I had been expecting given my complete lack of navigation for 11 months, and was good enough for the win.

Not a super complex area, but interesting, and fun to run a sprint with some bush and park and less buildings. Thanks for the new map Juffy and the twisty course setting Graham. Not sure I will repeat a 900km round trip to run for that long again, but glad I did it this time.

Distance is a guess. I thought about using the GPS, but didn't want to think about starting a watch or having a distraction if things went really wrong.

C • Scale 6

Course 1 - Splits

Yet another week of training not even resembling the plan.

Last day for a proper speed session before the weekend's frivolity. Wasn't feeling terribly motivated, so opted for 400s with long recoveries (400 jog) to make sure I was more likely to complete the session.

That seemed highly unlikely after I felt like dying during the first rep. Things improved slightly, but was still contemplating pulling the pin at half way.

Happily, it seems it was more a symptom of having not run intervals in who knows how long, and not doing quite enough warm-up, as the switch seemed to flick in rep 6 and I almost enjoyed the second half.

78.8, 81.6, 79.7, 78.7, 80.3, 78.3, 79.1, 78.5, 78.1, 77.2
Recoveries 1:55-2:00

2km-ish WU, 1km ish CD.