Training Log Archive: Lizzie

into forest with a massive bag full of everyones lunches,
out of forest to get jaime
into forest with jaime
and out of forest again, just before it got dark :)

tracks were the muddiest i've ever seen them! got a sexy mud trail all the way up my back

Bit of a guesstimate on the time, will have to see what times Tessa puts up.
contour only exercise first up, which was hard as! I didnt do the first couple of controls, instead came in from where i dumped the bike and lunches, which just happened to be in an area with few contours. didnt have a compass either, just to make it that extra bit tougher.

Then tennis matches with Tessa Duncan and Laura. we all let ourselves get distracted on the first control of the first one. had trouble fitting the map (bad printing), and let the others distract me, eventually relocated though.

relocation/map contact in the green stuff with Jaime. once again without a compass (long story short, Jaime and I managed to misplace 3 compasses in the forest, found 2 of them again, but my old one is still out there somewhere, RIP compass , we had a good run together-pun completely intended)

and control picking to finish off, just as it started raining again and beginning to get dark.

stretchabulous. (get it, i fitted stretching, and ab work in one word!)

been slack on stretching etc this week. slowly getting back into physio exercises again. dunno if it was the earlyish hour but my balance was terrible!

12 up 12 down

lacked the motivation to do intervals by myself at nairnville, so instead found the motivation to go all the way across town and do intervals at the track with Tessa! go figure.
anyway, pyramids from 1 up to3 and back with half rests. wasnt as nearly as bad as i dreaded, as usual, and even the 3 at the end was alright :) got things sussed pretty well with me in lane 5 and tessa in 1 or 2 so we stuck together the whole way pretty much.

pace run around wilton bush. cut a bit short so i could get to football on time.

...which i did to perfection! a mint night for training, just perfect conditions, and a bit of rain at the end to cool things down :)

17 up
14 down
man my new shoes are comfy! its like running on a cloud :) actually, i wouldnt know as ive never run on a cloud before, so, its like running on something a lot softer and spongier than my old shoes.
i was never any good at similes

C • I disagree 1

29,30,31,30,30,30,30,29,29,30
eventually got myself motivated to get out and do these. and as usual once i was out the door it was fine. legs feeling a lot better than last night. surprised how much they were aching after football on sunday, i must have done something in the game after all!

group run from botanics around and up tinakori, down to wilton, up through flax clearing to skyline, along and down to cemetary, through to karori tunnel and down the rigi to finish.
man its awkward leading the group run cos i'm always out in front, noone seems to want to run next to me! so if i want to talk have to do it over my shoulder. whenever i slow down to try and get company, everyone else slows down to stay behind! c'mon people i don't smell that bad surely?! Please, someone run with me and talk!

C • Maybe... 1

central park.
bit of a scramble. no.11 in wrong place. not much to say really. quite happy with my route to last control though :)

against marist at kilbirnie. Terrible pitch, has a cricket square on one side which is like a skating rink, so dangerous!

I'm honestly starting to wonder where wellington football get there refs from aye. The guy today seemed more intent on keeping the supporters more than 2m from the sideline than he did on actually controlling the players! Once again had a penalty denied, their keeper came out and took out our striker. which is an automatic sending off. but he gave an indirect free kick, just outside the box?! he was real antsy so didnt want to get carded by questioning him about it, or anything for that matter. but asked him about it after the game and he just made up some excuse, saying the ball wasnt going towards goal otherwise it would have been a penalty and red card...um sure!

anyway once again we dominated the game but just cant score, its getting a bit frustrating but sure it will come. you know its bad when the teams relying on me to score lol. should prob point out ive scored 4 goals in the last 2 years...
lost 2-0