Training Log Archive: Craig

Event: Foot O - John Forrest National Park
 

H2 at John Forrest. I was planning to do the H4 but when Rachel came back from the caravan having registered for the H2 because the H4 was only 2.3km I thought I'd better do the H2 as well. By the time I eventually started just before 11am I had realised it was probably a mistake but couldn't really back out at that stage.

Took a fairly direct route to 1 and was confident I'd found the clearing above the cliff but couldn't see any boulders on the edge of the clearing and lost about a minute searching without ever really working it out. Briefly out to the track and back in to 2 which I bumped into a bit earlier than I expected. Struggled up over the hill to 3, not feeling very good but no problem. Wanted to stay off the roads as much as possible and avoid climb so I went around to the right and ran up the creek. Had to cross the creek several times to stay out of back yards, not fast but more interesting.

Thought I might try to run in the bush up to 5 but by the time I got there I was exhausted and the bush didn't look very inviting so I stayed on the road. 5, 6, 7 were fine. Lots of hesitation in the flat area coming into 8, didn't look at all like I expected but found it ok in the end. Came into 9 a bit higher than I thought I was and wasted maybe 30 or 40 seconds looking too high.

10 was easy but 11 was in the wrong spot. I spent about 2 minutes looking around where it should have been because it was steep, thick and rocky so it took a while to be convinced I'd looked everywhere they could have put it. Found it pretty quickly once I moved on. Pretty straight to 12 which was easy but I never saw the track mid leg.

I was heading straight for 13 about 30 seconds away from it but things didn't look quite right so I checked the map and noticed the control should be inside the white so I headed for the trees to the South. Found peterk who made the map standing next to a nice boulder cluster but no control. Relocated off little creek just below 2 and worked back from there to find it ok, about 2:30 lost. Found brycec at 14 who obviously wasn't having a great day as he said something about following me to the finish.

Should have just gone for a trail run with fenry.

H2 - Splits

Easy run on sand tracks in KP. Feeling a bit stiff around right knee, think I might need to do a bit of tib-fib joint mobilisation. Surprisingly warm, was thinking of taking my singlet off inside the first 10 minutes.

Lauren Shelley swapped her usual Friday afternoon intervals to a morning tempo this week and since they were starting at UWA right when I usually run through I thought I might as well join them. Did two by 10min tempo out to the Narrows and back. First one with Lauren while Ray and Nera did 15min a little faster. Longish recovery for us so we could start the second effort with the others. First effort was reasonably comfortable so I decided to try to stay with Ray and Nera on the second effort and see how long I could hang on. I could tell pretty early that I was going over my threshold and when they lifted the pace slightly at 8 minutes I was done. Really wanted to stop at that point but I made myself drop the pace a little and tough it out to 10 minutes instead. Light tailwind on the first effort and headwind on the second.

C • Nice run 2

A bit of wet weather brought out the biggest group in months. I ran with Kate all the way again but it was a bit easier this time because her heart was giving her a bit of trouble and her cardiologist had recently told her very explicitly to do ZERO exercise. Greeny came past at UWA and was really moving but I was happy to let him go as I wasn't feeling great anyway.

To work and back and home for lunch.

To the gym and back.

S80, O30, B45, R30, D70.

To work and back and home for lunch.

Pennants training. I really wanted to work on my doubles tactics tonight but there were only 3 of us so not really the best training.