Training Log Archive: fletch

Half proper warm up. No time for cooldown

Attempt to salvage the week a bit. Missed my midweek quality session altogether, so thought I'd get more out of trying an approx 9km race on tired legs than I would be doing 4 x 3km around an oval.
About 6km on gravel roads. Undulating course. Never completely flat, but no devastating hills either. As opposed to last week, thought I'd start pretty hard and see how the legs responded. After yesterday's SOMS, I wasn't expecting much, but it went much better than I thought and with the aid of a slightly downhill second half, I even managed a negative split.
Shows I really did have something left in reserve last week, as I took the win by about 4 minutes over last week's runner up.

Still surprised that I can pull this out the day after a 30km session. Makes me think I could actually put an Easter carnival together at this fitness level. Shame I never got there when I was actually orienteering.

A frustrating addition to a week of little training. Have been feeling pretty tired and flat all week and just haven't been able to pull myself out of bed in the morning. Then yesterday I forgot to set my alarm when I was actually keen to run.
Today I felt Ok at the start, but before I had hit 1hr, my quads started to get sore. What the? Wish I knew what triggered this. Never got to the point of slowing me down, but just made the run really unpleasant, which was shame, because it was a beautiful, cool and clear morning with just a really light breeze for a change - perfect for the session I was doing.

WU
24km (nominally) at marathon pace (4:10-4:15)
CD

First few km in the dark, so couldn't tell what pace I was doing. Tried to settle to the right pace after that, but generally struggled to slow down to 4:15, even though I wasn't feeling great. Which would be OK, if it didn't totally destroy the point of the session, as I can't imagine another 18km of what I was doing today if it had been race day.

Oh well. Extended the MP bit to 25km, finishing at the top of the hill that is usually part of my cooldown, so obviously still had a bit in the tank.

Probably not helped by only having one gel, about 18km into the effort part of the session, and not drinking anything, despite arrying a drink bottle the whole time.

Roughly 88:20 through half marathon, aiming for 90.

Normally wouldn't log this, but yo-yo'ed between cruising at the back, then trying to play catch-up with the group that was riding the more technical trail. Pretty knackered by the end.

Easy roll around in the early hours. Not as early as it should have been. Took more than 30 minutes to get out the door this morning. Motivation is on holiday.

I've bought a GoPro for work - it actually may have educational benefits, as well as promotional ones in Outdoor Education in particular. Had to take it for a test spin to see what sort of shots you could get from different mounts.

First video includes facing backwards from the seatpost and forwards from the handlebars. Also includes a relatively close encounter with a large bird (owl?) and a trip over the handlebars.

Tough job I have. Extra tough that this track is next to my workplace (as in it is on the school orienteering map)

https://www.facebook.com/steve.fletcher.5680/video...

Helping a work offsider set up a 'survival camp' out at Minnenooka. He'd completely misjudged how hard it would be to get tarps, poles, ropes, sleeping bags and food out to a series of rogaine checkpoints. Glad I took my headlamp, coz I needed it to get from the last checkpoint out to the road.
Not much running. Hard to find the motivation as I seemed to end up with a pack filled with all the heavy stuff to put out :)