Training Log Archive: markg

ACT Sprint Champs heat B. Started well and was good through the first three then lost it big time. Miscounted water courses, ran past #4, eventually finding and punching #13, and didn't check the code. A bit sloppy after this too and was sloooow.

ACT Sprint Champs B Final. Another sloppy run. Kept failing to read the map properly and make good route choice. Mostly my own fault. Also it felt like a really long race, the last half was such a struggle.

Final Course 2 - Splits

Heats Course 1B - Splits

Recovery run on Mt Majura

This instructor really likes working on glutes. Another complex and challenging balance series. Sweated like crazy again, perhaps it wasn't the cold ...

Recovery run in the rain. Still not feeling broken ... a little tight in the calves.

When I'm fit I like to do a fast but easy session a couple of days before races. The idea of doing that this time occurred to me but then I realised that probably haven't done enough speed work to make it useful but I thought a test at race pace would be useful. Decided on a short descending set which got a bit muddled in the implementation so it was 8, 2, 2, 40s, 20s with equal rests, except only 1/2 after the first one. Pretty happy with pace (3.51, 4.00, 3.47, 3.43 and 3.39) but would have liked to be picking it up to 3min/km in those last ones, a combination of working too hard early and dodging foot traffic (running on the ANU campus). Anyhow, no harm done I think and, even better, the session felt good and no part of me felt broken.

Better but no time for a run ...