Training Log Archive: T - runner

Auckland Champs Long - Sunset Views. Pretty steep rough course! Came across Kate at 1, spent about 4 mins there at least trying to find it (map pretty dodgy there I think - extra re entrant not on map?), then just as we did, Laura turned up. Sturggled to get to 2, even though we could see it, with the steep cliffs. 3 okay, 4 lost a lot of time trying to go low, getting barked at by all the dogs, then going high and catching Laura and Kate when they couldn't find it, assumed that they had looked where I was going to go (turns out they hadn't). Grunt to 5 trying to keep up with them, although we all went different ways, fairly slow through 6, 7, 8, couldn't hold on up to 9, then went through the stream to 10, which was a big mistake. Couldn't see that the T intersection of the streams was at a different orientation to what I thought (1:15000 and a north line didn't help), then got all confused and lost 4 mins I think. Slowed down heaps after this and ended up losing 12 mins to Kate over the second half of the course - made mistakes on 11 and 12 losing 1.30 and 4mins, and 17, coming into the wrong re entrant in the gully. Not my best run... Amusingly, Dad's cousin owns the farm next door and when we were there afterwards we saw some very (ie kilometres off) lost people on their farm...

Warm up/down.

Course 2 - Splits

Combined warm up/down time at Wesley College.

Auckland Champs Sprint - Wesley College. Cool buildings, not such a fan of the long legs across field. No major mistakes, just too slow running. 9th, 1 second behind Maja.

Course 1 - Splits

20x 30s flat sprints with 30s jogging recoveries. Dragged Simon along, which was pretty funny. From Clearview out to the surf beach and then back along the beach.

10 mins warm up to Clearview, 5mins warm down (got further back along the beach than the track).

Bike - same as Monday. Wrist a bit sore afterwards, so iced it.

Was supposed to be a sub-threshold run but when I tried to get going my legs were still so smashed from Australia that they just wouldn't do it. That 30 mins was still harder though, as it was the climb up the goat track to the peak. Seemed to take much longer than usual. Whole route was Tauroa Rd end toe the big redwoods, goat track, down the short way. With Simon.

C • smashed 2

Bike to Clifton Bay/caravan park and back, to the end of Collison Tce and back. Wrist mostly okay but iced it afterwards anyway just in case. Felt pretty good after having really sore legs from a long day in theatre (lunch at 3.45pm, never fun...).

C • lunch is always fun! 5