Training Log Archive: Tim CIn the 1 days ending Apr 29, 2018:
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Sunday Apr 29, 2018 #
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Very happy about how the race went in the end.
The goal had always been podium, but with the last few weeks /month of very inconsistent training+ankle/foot issues, I had no idea how the body was going to react.
Really impressed with how it held up in the end, never feeling too bad at any point, only really not feeling comfortable the last 2km of yesterday and then the 2nd half of today (which was a lot to do with the blisters).
Realised that the body seems very happy to run longer distances on more technical/not too fast terrain (i.e 4-4:30/km), but as soon as it gets a bit faster it starts taking a bit of strain. Probably a lot to do with the lack of anything much fast recently, but also down to my running style, so not really sure if I want to look at trying to change that a bit or not..
Team worked out really well. With us being very similar throughout the race (myself a bit stronger day 1, very even yesterday and then jono a bit stronger today). So definitely need to come back and win it together sometime ;)
The goal had always been podium, but with the last few weeks /month of very inconsistent training+ankle/foot issues, I had no idea how the body was going to react.
Really impressed with how it held up in the end, never feeling too bad at any point, only really not feeling comfortable the last 2km of yesterday and then the 2nd half of today (which was a lot to do with the blisters).
Realised that the body seems very happy to run longer distances on more technical/not too fast terrain (i.e 4-4:30/km), but as soon as it gets a bit faster it starts taking a bit of strain. Probably a lot to do with the lack of anything much fast recently, but also down to my running style, so not really sure if I want to look at trying to change that a bit or not..
Team worked out really well. With us being very similar throughout the race (myself a bit stronger day 1, very even yesterday and then jono a bit stronger today). So definitely need to come back and win it together sometime ;)
9 AM
running warm up/down 6:00 [2] 1.0 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Salomon Sense 6 Softground
running 1:25:45 [4] 19.88 km (4:19 / km) +546m 3:48 / km
shoes: Salomon Sense 6 Softground
Final day of African X. Goal was to just try make sure we hung onto the podium and if it went really well, maybe try bridge the gap to Lucky+Thabang.
In the end the other 3 top teams were properly strong today with a bit more of a runnable+fast course. So had to work hard just to make sure Edunova didn't finish more than 5min ahead. Ended up about 5min back on L+T, 4 on edunova and 3 on AJ+ Bernard, so just hanging on for that podium.
Got some bad blisters with wearing some not thick enough socks+pinky toes are a bit destroyed from the shoes being a bit small, which meant from about 5km in it was not particularly fun going.. Gonna be doing as much barefoot running as possible the next week or so.
In the end the other 3 top teams were properly strong today with a bit more of a runnable+fast course. So had to work hard just to make sure Edunova didn't finish more than 5min ahead. Ended up about 5min back on L+T, 4 on edunova and 3 on AJ+ Bernard, so just hanging on for that podium.
Got some bad blisters with wearing some not thick enough socks+pinky toes are a bit destroyed from the shoes being a bit small, which meant from about 5km in it was not particularly fun going.. Gonna be doing as much barefoot running as possible the next week or so.