Training Log Archive: Lizzie

long run from catchpool with magnus and laura. about 1 min in decided my legs were absolutely dead. that lasted a good 25 mins. went around back of middle ridge, linked back up with main track towards the orongaronga river. then headed up cattle ridge, the opposite way from usual which was actually really neat! pretty rugged running.
went past a couple of groups of girls tramping who were shocked we were running...then one of them recognised me... turns out it was the marsden duke of ed group tramping. thought noone still at marsden would recognise me by now?!

came back down butchers track. which hurt more to come down than go up. never thought i'd say that.

I swear they've changed the names of the tracks in wilton bush. got terribly confused today cos what i've always called the yellow track is actually the lower blue track. what i thought was the blue track is the upper blue track. what i thought was the upper yellow track is... i don't even know!

and apparantly there IS a green track..it's the circuit loop.

felt really confused, but then when i mentioned it to mum she thought the same as me! so they must have changed the names pretty recently.

cos it matters...

Ran the percy's reserve omax course. sweet area with loads of tracks, bit confusing up the back of the reserve, think there's a track not on the map or something?
was silly getting the 3 controls at the end to add up to 9, got 1 and 4 and then....crap. knew i was getting 2,3,4 but went to 1 first anyway!

was hoping lisa would be up for a bike ride, but no, she wanted to run! went down to wilton bush and along the tracks there. then explored a couple of old tracks i'd noticed. both of which lead to dead ends at the bottom of what would be nice waterfalls if there was more water. first one we backtracked back to the proper tracks. second one we followed a possum line up through a load of crap to the upper track and back home

well it wasnt running, but still effort to get along the possum track!

day off running, had final phsyio appt too

group run from belmont, though most people opted for the pmax instead, or were just too late. top of hill road, up 4wd track, right onto smaller track. chased a calf along the track for over 500m, not that its mum seemed to fussed. prob glad to get rid of it for a while! around to the bunkers and back to the main track. then all the way down a valley (not sure which one), over a spur and back up to the cars. got an extra 6mins at the end going back down the track, almost to the bottom looking for mick, who'd taken a wrong turn and got back to the cars faster than me!

neat track, if i had more time before leaving i'd do it again.

started off with the parentals in wilton bush but left them behind surprisingly fast (perhaps not, theyre still recovering from 2 weeks 'holiday' in the SI). just around the lower tracks (yellow?). added on a loop to the upper tracks and ended up behind parents again. met lisa along the bottom track out for her run. Then bumped into magnus and snow, who wasn't impressed that i was cheating by training without him.

around the sanddunes (streets of khandallah) with mum. felt a bit like winter tbh! hill up jubilee road was mean fun after the last couple of days :)

physio exercises

my second littlest toe on L foot is fairly mauled after the weekend. It's pretty much one big blister, and a pretty deep thorn in there too i noticed!

and R inov8 is all but dead. the sole is coming off in atleast 3 places, seems to be staying together on sheer will power alone at the moment.

tongariro crossing with Piret, Magnus R1,3,4
Tim just vanished ahead of us having not run the goat the day before! tight right calf to start up to soda springs, and shoulders sore from camelbak. very happy i managed to keep running all the way up to the plateau. legs were like lead and screaming to stop and walk, but piret kept was still running in front of me so i had to keep going :)
beaut day on the tops. applied sunblock 3 times enroute! pretty smashed by the end