Training Log Archive: LizzieIn the 7 days ending Aug 30, 2014:
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Saturday Aug 30, 2014 #
12 PM
Orienteering 30:04 [4] 4.5 km (6:41 / km)
Vic Middle on Kooyoora, which it turns out I have run on before (2003), but I don't have a single memory of.
Really cool and wicked fun - navigation wasn't too difficult, but it felt very scrappy as the thickness of the vegetation meant detours to get where you wanted, despite being able to see where you wanted to be! Played leapfrog with Krystal for a bit as I'd pass her, then miss the next control: #7 I stood on the wrong side of the rock, wondering where the cliff I was looking for was - turned out said rock was the cliff! #10 I made a parallel error on the bits of bare rock - no biggie, except that I then got full bodily caught in green while correcting!
Was skillfully avoiding tripping over the numerous branches on the ground - until #14 when i got a bit prematurely excited about running fast on the clear bare rock, and went flying over the last branch. Left a fair bit of my right palm and left bum cheek on the rock...
Really cool and wicked fun - navigation wasn't too difficult, but it felt very scrappy as the thickness of the vegetation meant detours to get where you wanted, despite being able to see where you wanted to be! Played leapfrog with Krystal for a bit as I'd pass her, then miss the next control: #7 I stood on the wrong side of the rock, wondering where the cliff I was looking for was - turned out said rock was the cliff! #10 I made a parallel error on the bits of bare rock - no biggie, except that I then got full bodily caught in green while correcting!
Was skillfully avoiding tripping over the numerous branches on the ground - until #14 when i got a bit prematurely excited about running fast on the clear bare rock, and went flying over the last branch. Left a fair bit of my right palm and left bum cheek on the rock...
Running warm up/down 10:00 [3]
6 PM
Strength and Conditioning 15:00 [1]
Friday Aug 29, 2014 #
8 AM
Strength and Conditioning 35:00 [1]
Thursday Aug 28, 2014 #
biking (commute) 30:00 [1]
8 AM
Strength and Conditioning 20:00 [0]
6 PM
Running 35:11 [3] 6.85 km (5:08 / km)
Spent longer umming and arring about whether to bother going out than I actually spent on the run.
The usual easy run loop from home.
The usual easy run loop from home.
Wednesday Aug 27, 2014 #
6 PM
Running 30:00 [3] 5.0 km (6:00 / km)
Set a corridor exercise in Campbell park, followed by a middle distance through Ainslie W to get me back to the car. But didn't have my compass, so flagged the corridor and went for an over the top (ha) warm-up up Mt Ainslie instead.
Orienteering 35:00 [3] 5.0 km (7:00 / km)
No tapes, No compass, No friends. and towards the end, getting close to No headlamp.
Good fun. Even found all the termies I was looking for.
Plenty of bunnies and roos for company, along with the occasional possum, and a fox.
Good fun. Even found all the termies I was looking for.
Plenty of bunnies and roos for company, along with the occasional possum, and a fox.
Running warm up/down 6:00 [3] 1.0 km (6:00 / km)
back to the car. Set a new record for number of times losing the single track in the space of a km.
8 PM
Strength and Conditioning 20:00 [1]
Neural system is grumpy as anything. Atleast I'm out of the lab til next week.
Tuesday Aug 26, 2014 #
3 PM
Running 45:00 [3] 7.8 km (5:46 / km)
lab-botanics-blackie-circum-lab.
8 PM
Strength and Conditioning 15:00 [0]
Monday Aug 25, 2014 #
7 PM
Strength and Conditioning 15:00 [0]
Was in too much of a boo after work to drag myself out into the dark and rain for a run. Amazing how frustrated and shitty I can get over a little bit of code not working.
Sunday Aug 24, 2014 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:04:10 [4]
Was pretty excited to be heading out on a long distance after focusing on middle/sprint all of this year so far. Probably a good thing to ease back into it with a shorter long than I expected - turns out EWT for a state champs is 60-70mins for W21A.
I was tired enough by the end anyway!
Happy with how the run went, got the speed control right, which was tricky when the long legs were such fast running, but the controls were in granite detail. At the time it felt like I was slowing down excessively, but it meant I didn't circumnavigate any bonus boulders within the circles, which was worth it. Only time loss I can think of was micro route choice really, and the odd occasion of slacking off the aggression, which is an easy way to lose time in the rough rock and scrub!
Now just have to run ~ double that time at the ultra next week! Hmmm...
I was tired enough by the end anyway!
Happy with how the run went, got the speed control right, which was tricky when the long legs were such fast running, but the controls were in granite detail. At the time it felt like I was slowing down excessively, but it meant I didn't circumnavigate any bonus boulders within the circles, which was worth it. Only time loss I can think of was micro route choice really, and the odd occasion of slacking off the aggression, which is an easy way to lose time in the rough rock and scrub!
Now just have to run ~ double that time at the ultra next week! Hmmm...
Orienteering warm up/down 10:00 [3]
All WU. Feet were sore from my shoes and rocks afterwards, and then I was lazy.
Had a chat to Jase and got all of the secrets of the upcoming course ;) And had a cup of water, not because I was thirsty, but because GrantM had lugged 20L all the way up the hills to the start, and it would have been impolite not to. :)
Had a chat to Jase and got all of the secrets of the upcoming course ;) And had a cup of water, not because I was thirsty, but because GrantM had lugged 20L all the way up the hills to the start, and it would have been impolite not to. :)