Training Log Archive: AliC

Warm-up. Hah! Legs feel way better today then they did yesterday. Nice. Despite a way early warm up, was completely unprepared when Ian came in (sorry!). Hadn't cleared or checked and didn't know what our team number was....

Varsity relay.

Not a terrible run, bit messy to 3 and 10, again bearing mistakes, but less costly on a less vague area! Not a bad run, did crunch the ankle (first time with out the brace). So guess may keep wearing it for the foreseeable future...

Collecting controls. Had major issues finding one on the men's course actually. Again, think a more accurate bearing would have helped...

300 warm up
200-100-50 x 2
200 cool down
100 kick

Good warm up and stretch- right calf was really hurting just sitting around/walking, so wanted to make sure I was well warmed up so as not to pull it!

Epping Forest Varsity Match, Women's A.

Mistake-ridden, I think is the best description of my race! Ug. Such a bummer to have a bad one for varsity! Luckily, didn't actually matter as Liz-Ruth-Jenn pulled through for the team and actually all 5 of us beat the first Cambridge gal- clean sweep!

I wasn't consistently smooth at all, although I had a few spiked controls I was pleased with. Then there were the big mistakes:
(4)- 2.5 minutes: a depression in a particularly low-visibility area- I went back and forth between a lake and a open patch a few times before finally getting it- lots of others had issues here too
(11)- 2 minutes: should have just run all the way up the path and attacked from the road- a far safer option, and probably easier than running uphill through junk, others also had issues with this one
(14)- 7 minutes: ouch! I just must have been really off on my bearing. There's nothing else that makes sense at all. was over around some other clearing poking around bushes for a long while, before deciding to come out to the road, which was *way* further away then in should have been. Still wasn't quick finding it after that. So, major lesson: take a few more seconds on a good baring in vague forest. Minor lession: if you're supposed to be within 50m of a road, should probably actually notice it...
(15-16-17)- 1 minute on each. Ug. Needed to regroup a little bit better after the big mistake... being a bit messy and unfocused.

I think the major lesson was the need for a bit more patience out there. Being better on my bearings would have saved most of the mistakes.

Warm-down with Seba to get ice-cream money from the village hall. We may have taken a wrong turn and then had to run back up a big hill. My mistakes didn't end with the final control even! =)

Collecting controls. Amazing how the last 3 controls which I was messy on where so much easier having been to them before/having enough oxygen to my brain...

2k swim
200 warm up
800
3 x 200
6 x 50
200 cool down

Feels good to glide through the water now. Fun!

10 min warm up, 5 min cool down

2 lap warm up, 200 m roll ons betwen intervals, 2 lap cool down

And a track session! In trainers, not spikes to give the legs a bit more recovery still.

800-600-400-200 x 2 with 200m roll-ons between the intervals

2.45
2.06
78
36

2.49
2.07
82
skipped the last 200...

400
2 x 200
4 x 100
8 x 50
100

Good stuff, feel so much better swimming now! It's amazing.

Easy club run with Lucy and Matt, around Nature Reserve 1.5 times. Quite slow, but probably good for my body to get used to running without tons of stress on it! Problem hamstring twinged a few times at the end, which is worrying, but don't think it'll be a big problem. Achilles and patellar tendons seem happy enough today at least!