Training Log Archive: markg

Simeon actually only finished 25s behind me, closer than I thought!

Long bush course from the OQ relays at Scribbly Gum Forest. A couple of sloppy legs and one speculative but ultimately bad route choice on the first leg led to some head to head racing with Mat and Simeon Burrill which was good fun. Simeon had a solid run and finished 2nd a minute or so behind me.

My 2nd leg was a scatter. I excluded a couple of controls on first glance, picked a fairly obvious first control from those remaining and then managed to string together a decent loop. Not super fast, rolling left ankle late in the previous course didn't help, but good enough. My team (Caroline Pigerre and Geraldine Chatsfield) came 3rd, I think, the Tay family team came in first followed by the Burrill family team.

3 x 2 laps of the reservoir, 1.6km each, with 2min walk/jog recovery. Had planned to do O-intervals at UQ tonight but Megan had a bad night's sleep and wanted to swap her morning swim for a morning run. Anyway, I thought this run was going to be terrible and nearly bailed after 20m but stuck it out and it turned out to be pretty good. Lap times were 5:32 (3:26), 5:36 (3:29), 5:37 (3:29). My legs were getting pretty lactic during these, perhaps more speedwork is required. Also noticed that the PTE is pretty low for an interval session, so I probably need to drop the recovery times and/or add more repeats.

Also, does anyone always get their max HR for a run in the first couple of minutes of a run? Mine hit 183 while I was jogging up my street and that's pretty common, while my max during the intervals was only 182. Could be HRM error so I'll have to verify the reading.

PTE 3.6

C • HR 1

Calves and Achilles.

Started working on my achilles and calves again.

A return to work-school commutes. It was pretty hot today; I'm not sure how long I'll be able do these for the 3pm pick-up with summer approaching. I carefully skirted around the Roma St Gardens so as not to earn a DSQ for next February's sprint NOL. My guts were playing up unfortunately so the early tempo pace dropped off a bit in the last couple of kms.

Took Ewan up to the reservoir for a few laps on his bike with me running alongside. I was still feeling terrible and it was a struggle to keep up even though he was going very slowly. The ride home was mostly a lesson on using the hand brake and I spent a lot of time walking and holding his bike upright.

TFL release again.

Easy morning loop up on Coot-tha. Lovely morning though the humidity was noticeable. Glutes feeling fatigued from the squats but somehow feeling stronger too.