Training Log Archive: LizzieIn the 30 days ending Jun 30, 2012:
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Saturday Jun 30, 2012 #
3 PM
Orienteering 1:24:30 [3]
Caught 3 hours of trains down to Bad Harzburg to catch up with the parentals at WMOC. More than worth it, just to get out on some decent runs!
Good session on one of the long model maps, plenty of contours, blackberry, nettles and flies! Finally felt like a half decent hit out. Just wish my legs would stop aching all the time
Good session on one of the long model maps, plenty of contours, blackberry, nettles and flies! Finally felt like a half decent hit out. Just wish my legs would stop aching all the time
Friday Jun 29, 2012 #
8 AM
Running 18:00 [3]
Ran to work via Bremerhaven's second running route - the sea wall. scintilating stuff. Way too soon after breakfast, stomach not appreciative. On the other hand, my legs were fresh. So about par all up
7 PM
Running 17:00 [3]
Run back to hostel from work. Had a bit of a break at 5mins, when the bridge I ran across this morning disappeared before my eyes to let a boat through. Got sick of waiting in the end, so found the next bridge along.
Legs shattered after another long day sampling.
Legs shattered after another long day sampling.
Thursday Jun 28, 2012 #
Note
yep another day off. No flights as excuses this time. But worked my feet into the ground at work today, standing and moving around for 10 hours sampling isn't conducive to legs that want to run post-work it seems. sigh.
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012 #
7 PM
Running 49:00 [3]
Ah to be running so late in the evening, in the light, and in the warmth!
Took a google map of Bremerhaven and eventually found my way through to the river bank (one of two options recommended to me, the other being up and down the dyke by the seaside...maybe rome had better options last year?!)
Did 12 x 30:30 once i found the dirt track by the river. Right tib post tightened up on the way home.
Took a google map of Bremerhaven and eventually found my way through to the river bank (one of two options recommended to me, the other being up and down the dyke by the seaside...maybe rome had better options last year?!)
Did 12 x 30:30 once i found the dirt track by the river. Right tib post tightened up on the way home.
Tuesday Jun 26, 2012 #
Note
arrived in Bremerhaven at 8pm after 40 hours of travel. Thought about hitting the gym at Dubai airport, but didn't have time to make it worth it. Considered running reps the wrong way along the flat escalators instead, but didn't fancy my chances against the armed security people.
Monday Jun 25, 2012 #
Note
off to Europe!
wanted to go for a run this morning, but was just too tired. Figured an extra half hour in bed will serve me better on arrival in germany..
wanted to go for a run this morning, but was just too tired. Figured an extra half hour in bed will serve me better on arrival in germany..
Sunday Jun 24, 2012 #
Football 1:30:00 [3]
1-0 loss to Woden. Stink.
Not a good sign that we lose these close games that we arguably dominate. Team is running out of players too...
Not a good sign that we lose these close games that we arguably dominate. Team is running out of players too...
Saturday Jun 23, 2012 #
biking (commute) 25:00 [3]
to O and home
Orienteering 43:08 [3]
Bruce ridge sat event. A fun course and good final hit out before flying out. Small miss on 7 and a couple of others, but pretty happy all up compared to my runs of late
Friday Jun 22, 2012 #
Orienteering 2:02:00 [2]
helping mags put out controls for the o-gang fundraiser. so a mix of walking/jogging/running/jungle bashing/rock climbing/abseiling... the sort of thing where i'd find myself wondering if this is a good idea 3 weeks out from worlds... :)
man there's some random stuff in the thick of the wellington bush! including a soccer ball (still fully inflated) and a huge tractor tire. and the mysterious blue box...
also included a hill rep when magnus left the i-dent box holders at the bottom of the hill. (5min climb)
man there's some random stuff in the thick of the wellington bush! including a soccer ball (still fully inflated) and a huge tractor tire. and the mysterious blue box...
also included a hill rep when magnus left the i-dent box holders at the bottom of the hill. (5min climb)
Thursday Jun 21, 2012 #
Running 40:00 [3]
favourite loop in wilton bush. Think I took a couple of mins off my usual time which would be nice if right. Not sure though as i forgot my watch and used the car clock.
Wednesday Jun 20, 2012 #
6 PM
Running 1:03:25 [3]
shoes: inov8 X-talon 2012
aaaah. O-gang run in the mud at wilton bush. Up red track to flax clearing and on to the skyline. Have to admit though I burst ahead of the pack as I needed to stretch out the legs a bit more than the rest were doing. Then broke from the pack again to go over Johnston's hill and blast it back to the carpark via the lower tracks. Last half was a good tempo run in the mud and dark :)
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 #
biking (commute) 35:00 [3]
6 PM
Football 1:15:00 [1]
Last training before Europe so thought I'd head along.
Monday Jun 18, 2012 #
biking (commute) 40:00 [2]
legs feeling it today...but just in a tired way, not an injured way. which is nice
Strength and Conditioning 20:00 [3]
while watching euro 2012 highlights.
Sunday Jun 17, 2012 #
10 AM
Orienteering 52:10 [3]
Out at Jankee Yack's Hill on a cold windy morning.
Gave Devil 3-4mins head start as Red 1 had the same first 2 controls as red 2. Caught him just as we both made a mess of 2 (my mess was much smaller though from all accounts). The gully-spur stuff had me thoroughly confused around 2 and 3, along with extra termite mounds. Mistake on 2 came from taking a bearing off an unmapped termie. I should know by now! So lost 2-3 mins there.
Then got 3 alright in the end, but keeping a bearing in that terrain seemed impossible! Kept finding myself 30odd deg out!
3-4-5 was pretty straight running, then into the rocky hill stuff. Again nav was fine here, but what I'm lacking is orienteering confidence. Kept getting in the circle, and wasting 10-20s checking the map, when I was 4/5 times right on the feature, just on the opposite side from the control! So have to start trusting in my abilities again i think!
52mins all up, which seemed a bit slow. But can't complain given saturday's effort i guess. Legs actually felt alright all things considered, bit grumpy at times.
Oh and I beat the SI box to the finish! So my recorded time is 30s longer than my actual time! Hasn't been taken into account in the results, which is a bit rude I think ;)
Gave Devil 3-4mins head start as Red 1 had the same first 2 controls as red 2. Caught him just as we both made a mess of 2 (my mess was much smaller though from all accounts). The gully-spur stuff had me thoroughly confused around 2 and 3, along with extra termite mounds. Mistake on 2 came from taking a bearing off an unmapped termie. I should know by now! So lost 2-3 mins there.
Then got 3 alright in the end, but keeping a bearing in that terrain seemed impossible! Kept finding myself 30odd deg out!
3-4-5 was pretty straight running, then into the rocky hill stuff. Again nav was fine here, but what I'm lacking is orienteering confidence. Kept getting in the circle, and wasting 10-20s checking the map, when I was 4/5 times right on the feature, just on the opposite side from the control! So have to start trusting in my abilities again i think!
52mins all up, which seemed a bit slow. But can't complain given saturday's effort i guess. Legs actually felt alright all things considered, bit grumpy at times.
Oh and I beat the SI box to the finish! So my recorded time is 30s longer than my actual time! Hasn't been taken into account in the results, which is a bit rude I think ;)
Running warm up/down 12:00 [3]
up to the start and around a bit, trying to get/stay warm!
2 PM
Football 1:30:00 [3]
Somehow made it through this, despite cramping up in the warm up! Played really well as a team though, got the passing going. smashed tuggers 5-1, and doubled my season goal tally :)
Saturday Jun 16, 2012 #
Strength and Conditioning 15:00 [1]
10 AM
Running 2:52:00 [3] 27.25 km (6:19 / km) +1000m 5:20 / km
shoes: inov8 X-talon 2012
Long run up Mt Tennent and around Honeysuckle with Devil. Pretty glad I took a rest day yesterday rather than doing some sprint courses like I thought (work got in the way, again. tends to do that?!)
A bit worried that Devil thinks we took it easy up the 4wd track to the top of Tennent? 52mins up, by which time my calves and achilles were grumpy as. But surprisingly good the rest of the way, careened it down the single track stuff, and had a pretty solid effort keeping up with Devil's pace along the undulating stuff. kept dropping back on the uphills...I blame his long legs. 2.11 to honeysuckle car park, then a bit of a bush bash track back to almost the start, and a bit of training for mumma's mile on the goat, back up the road to the car ;)
Thoroughly enjoyable all up, but glad I didn't have to do anything in the afternoon!
A bit worried that Devil thinks we took it easy up the 4wd track to the top of Tennent? 52mins up, by which time my calves and achilles were grumpy as. But surprisingly good the rest of the way, careened it down the single track stuff, and had a pretty solid effort keeping up with Devil's pace along the undulating stuff. kept dropping back on the uphills...I blame his long legs. 2.11 to honeysuckle car park, then a bit of a bush bash track back to almost the start, and a bit of training for mumma's mile on the goat, back up the road to the car ;)
Thoroughly enjoyable all up, but glad I didn't have to do anything in the afternoon!
Friday Jun 15, 2012 #
biking (commute) 40:00 [2]
Strength and Conditioning 22:00 [1]
Thursday Jun 14, 2012 #
Strength and Conditioning 22:00 [3]
biking (commute) 40:00 [3]
3 PM
Running 38:00 [3]
WU and WD up and back from uni to circumcision track. Feeling good and strong, specially on the way home!
Running intervals 21:00 [4]
shoes: Asics Trabuco 2012
7x2min intervals around circumcision. 3 1/4 ints take you all the way round it turns out. So decided to go up to the summit on the 6th one, that was some good pain! Which made the final one a technical down hill, and a 30s blast along the flat at the end.
best I've felt on a session in weeks. Felt the right ankle a bit, and the left quad occasionally , but actually felt like an athlete. It's been a while!
best I've felt on a session in weeks. Felt the right ankle a bit, and the left quad occasionally , but actually felt like an athlete. It's been a while!
Wednesday Jun 13, 2012 #
Strength and Conditioning 27:00 [2]
calf feeling a lot better this morning. Should be able to run today :)
biking (commute) 40:00 [3]
to/from uni in the arvo. To go by Carsten's rule of if this counts as training or not - there was sweat, but mainly due to wearing too many layers! Hence it was heat training ;)
12 PM
Running 28:00 [3]
to and from wed metro event from home, easing the aches and pains out of my legs. Or trying to anyway
Orienteering 28:13 [3]
Shannon's Metro course on N Ainslie. Fun middle length course, should have been about 25mins but wasted 2-3mins on number 2 running in circles like a headless chicken!
Rest was fine navigationally but every time I got up speed I seemed to go over on my right ankle. Wrong choice to wear my trabucos with orthotics, too high for the rough ground. but didn't want to run 30mins on the roads in my inov8s getting there and back... Maybe i need to carry a shoe change!
Rest was fine navigationally but every time I got up speed I seemed to go over on my right ankle. Wrong choice to wear my trabucos with orthotics, too high for the rough ground. but didn't want to run 30mins on the roads in my inov8s getting there and back... Maybe i need to carry a shoe change!
Tuesday Jun 12, 2012 #
Strength and Conditioning 23:00 [2]
biking (commute) 50:00 [2]
to uni + pool + home with sah. She cruised while i pushed to keep up with her road bike
5 PM
aqua jogging 31:00 [3]
with sah at civic. luckily the little kids swimming lessons left the deep half of one lane free :)
was going to do 30:30 but could feel the calf on the first couple, so just kept it steady. Don't have the mental toughness for a 2hr session like angela!
was going to do 30:30 but could feel the calf on the first couple, so just kept it steady. Don't have the mental toughness for a 2hr session like angela!
Monday Jun 11, 2012 #
Note
Plan for today was to run up mt tennent with Devil. Not sure why I ever thought that would be a good idea for a post soccer match day! Given how sore my calf was every time i rolled over last night, realised it would be a bad move to try and do it today.
So hopefully all good for next saturday :)
Good decision I think as a 3hr run today would wipe me out til atleast Thurs, and I need 2 good weeks training before jetting overseas
So hopefully all good for next saturday :)
Good decision I think as a 3hr run today would wipe me out til atleast Thurs, and I need 2 good weeks training before jetting overseas
Strength and Conditioning 35:00 [2]
3 PM
Mtn Biking 1:30:00 [3]
awesome mtn bike with sah and andy. Managed not to stack once, although almost killed myself on one long steep downhill where my lack of back tire grip almost proved fatal, somehow regained the track and avoided the large rocks though!
Sunday Jun 10, 2012 #
2 PM
Football warm up/down 25:00 [3]
Football 1:30:00 [3]
1-0 loss to Weston Creek. Poos. Dominated but ball went everywhere but in the back of the net!
Won player of the match for the 3rd week running, but starting to question if it's worth how sore my body always is on Monday! Something happened to my calf muscle 10mins from the end, hoping it was just cramp. Very stiff and sore to go down stairs on it today (monday).
Also big bruises on both ankles, huzzah!
Think the team has made a pact to not give me points for player's player next week...
Won player of the match for the 3rd week running, but starting to question if it's worth how sore my body always is on Monday! Something happened to my calf muscle 10mins from the end, hoping it was just cramp. Very stiff and sore to go down stairs on it today (monday).
Also big bruises on both ankles, huzzah!
Think the team has made a pact to not give me points for player's player next week...
Saturday Jun 9, 2012 #
Orienteering 1:20:30 [3]
The inaugural Majackainslie classic. 6 courses over 6 maps taking me around Majura, hackett hill and mt Ainslie.
Actually only did the first 3 maps in the end cos I didn't want to annihilate myself for the next two days, and had some niggles playing up.
Awesome fun though, will have to do all 6 maps some time, prob take 2.5-3hours at a pretty leasurely pace. Company would make it good too :)
Actually only did the first 3 maps in the end cos I didn't want to annihilate myself for the next two days, and had some niggles playing up.
Awesome fun though, will have to do all 6 maps some time, prob take 2.5-3hours at a pretty leasurely pace. Company would make it good too :)
Strength and Conditioning 25:00 [3]
Friday Jun 8, 2012 #
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rest day cos it's been such a tough week! ;)
Tendon is fine around the ankle, tender in lower calf. I don't even know anymore aye.
Tendon is fine around the ankle, tender in lower calf. I don't even know anymore aye.
biking (commute) 40:00 [3]
Leasurely commute to uni with Snowy and home with Isa. Hands and feet absolutely frozen on arrival!
Strength and Conditioning 25:00 [3]
Thursday Jun 7, 2012 #
Note
seems to be turning into an easy week...
too busy demagnetising the new shielded room to get out at lunchtime, so looks like it will just be soccer training tonight. might fit ints in tomorrow, or save it up for a big, long, weekend of training :)
also get rid of some of these aches and pains. please?!
too busy demagnetising the new shielded room to get out at lunchtime, so looks like it will just be soccer training tonight. might fit ints in tomorrow, or save it up for a big, long, weekend of training :)
also get rid of some of these aches and pains. please?!
7 PM
Football 1:30:00 [3]
eeeee so cold! Pitch was iced up by half way through training, and just dangerous by the end (i have a graze up my leg to prove it!) almost impossible to control the ball as it just slipped everywhere.
didn't warm up fully and as a result my tendon played up...so no intervals for friday now. frick. looks like it will be AJ if anything.
didn't warm up fully and as a result my tendon played up...so no intervals for friday now. frick. looks like it will be AJ if anything.
Wednesday Jun 6, 2012 #
10 AM
Running warm up/down 26:00 [3]
along the single tracks. Legs felt super tired for pretty much the entire warm up and down. But sorted themselves out for the hill sprints which was nice.
On the downside, thigh/quad was aching as i ran. On the plus side, my awesome sleep last night seems to have vastly helped my head. Was prepared to have to turn around and bail 1-2mins in, but everything went smoothly :)
On the downside, thigh/quad was aching as i ran. On the plus side, my awesome sleep last night seems to have vastly helped my head. Was prepared to have to turn around and bail 1-2mins in, but everything went smoothly :)
Running hills (hill sprints) 14:40 [4]
11x 1.20 cycles, 30s sprints up the single track going to Majackett saddle. Perhaps the cycle was a bit short, I'd get about 5s standing at the bottom at the end of each one. Certainly not enough to catch breathe!
Tuesday Jun 5, 2012 #
5 PM
biking (commute) 30:00 [3]
Got sent home from uni again by my caring friends who are probably better at looking after me than I am myself!
So worked from bed most of the day. Made the iffy decision to go to soccer training and take it easy, head home if i felt crap.
So worked from bed most of the day. Made the iffy decision to go to soccer training and take it easy, head home if i felt crap.
Football 1:30:00 [2]
yeah. should have stayed home but that was never realistically going to happen!
Felt sick all of training, head itself felt fine, but achey when i got home.
physically easy training though, and made super sure I stayed out of the way of any balls that might want heading! The way i figure, even if soccer training doesn't give me a fitness work out, the amount of laughing i inevitably end up doing gives me a good ab workout!
Felt sick all of training, head itself felt fine, but achey when i got home.
physically easy training though, and made super sure I stayed out of the way of any balls that might want heading! The way i figure, even if soccer training doesn't give me a fitness work out, the amount of laughing i inevitably end up doing gives me a good ab workout!
Monday Jun 4, 2012 #
Strength and Conditioning 20:00 [1]
biking (commute) 55:00 [3]
(rest day)
here there and everywhere. Incl to the physio, who had managed to book my appt for next month rather than next week...so no appt for me today! 8.40am tomorrow instead
Had a good nanna nap this arvo, after my friends persuaded me to head home early from work.
Had a good nanna nap this arvo, after my friends persuaded me to head home early from work.
Sunday Jun 3, 2012 #
10 AM
Orienteering 34:30 [3]
Sunday event in Majura pines. Did a classic faceplant on the way to no.1 Luckily my front teeth stopped my fall...
Kept getting to the control site and not seeing the control, then finding it hanging on the other side of the tree! Garr!
Was going fine until I made an horrendous parallel error on 10, getting the wrong track and spending 2.5mins looking in the wrong block. Dumb dumb dumb and really need to work these mistakes out of my system!
Also got confused by the extra track at the last control, which was silly.
Kept getting to the control site and not seeing the control, then finding it hanging on the other side of the tree! Garr!
Was going fine until I made an horrendous parallel error on 10, getting the wrong track and spending 2.5mins looking in the wrong block. Dumb dumb dumb and really need to work these mistakes out of my system!
Also got confused by the extra track at the last control, which was silly.
Orienteering 10:00 [2]
Devil's blue lightning leg planning exercise. Sure I can count this :)
2 PM
Football 1:30:00 [4]
vs Olympic on a horrible surface at O'connor enclosed. On which 4 people has already done ankles/knees today, but the ref refused to switch us to the next door field...
Dominated the first half, then fell apart in the 2nd for a 2-2 draw. I got pretty annihilated. Ball smashed into my face from 1.5m in the first half - pretty happy to find my tongue all in one piece given the force i bit down on it with. And no swelling of the face bonus, but one very very stiff jaw.
Then gave away a penalty in the 2nd half (kinda had to...but I did get the ball!) but in doing so go run over by my team mate...now my right hand is one giant bruise and my back is not the happiest! Hopefully nothing's broken in my hand, i can't grip too much with it atm though!
...and now i have a whole new set of aches and pains to complain about ;)
Dominated the first half, then fell apart in the 2nd for a 2-2 draw. I got pretty annihilated. Ball smashed into my face from 1.5m in the first half - pretty happy to find my tongue all in one piece given the force i bit down on it with. And no swelling of the face bonus, but one very very stiff jaw.
Then gave away a penalty in the 2nd half (kinda had to...but I did get the ball!) but in doing so go run over by my team mate...now my right hand is one giant bruise and my back is not the happiest! Hopefully nothing's broken in my hand, i can't grip too much with it atm though!
...and now i have a whole new set of aches and pains to complain about ;)
Saturday Jun 2, 2012 #
Strength and Conditioning 22:00 [1]
10 AM
Orienteering 1:30:00 [3]
Training on Majainslie with Devil. Started off with his corridor exercise from a couple of weeks ago, then moved on to the middle I set on Campbell park months ago. Unfortunately a fair few of the control sites were dodgy to say the least! But on the plus side, about 2/3 of them were taped! :)
2nd half of the course was better and got a bit of flow going.
Then picked up tapes from the corridor exercise on the way home. Good weather for running in, and even better weather to spend the rest of the day in my sleeping bag on the couch!
2nd half of the course was better and got a bit of flow going.
Then picked up tapes from the corridor exercise on the way home. Good weather for running in, and even better weather to spend the rest of the day in my sleeping bag on the couch!
Friday Jun 1, 2012 #
Note
ankle area feeling a lot better this morning than the last few days (read, i couldnt get it to hurt while lying in bed lol). But this sore spot in my quad is worrying, the same thing as end of last year. I got rid of it then by taking a couple of months of due to my knee :s
2 PM
Running warm up/down 34:00 [3]
to and from bruce ridge and some token dynamic stretching. After all my worrying this morning, everything felt fine. Apart from running too soon after lunch that is. glug.
Running 21:00 [3]
7x2min intervals on bruce ridge single tracks. GPS has me doing super slow k rates cos it can't keep up wit the twisting and turning of the tracks.
Gee first int was death! my bad for starting with 2 uphill ones... Made it through though, haven't done high intensity running in a while, need to get back into the swing of it, will build in 3min efforts, but 2min felt more than long enough today, kept checking my watch after just over 1min!
Gee first int was death! my bad for starting with 2 uphill ones... Made it through though, haven't done high intensity running in a while, need to get back into the swing of it, will build in 3min efforts, but 2min felt more than long enough today, kept checking my watch after just over 1min!