Training Log Archive: fletch

Event: Yetar Springs
 

Not a particularly fine effort. First control was a sitter, thought I had a good plan heading to 2, but missed the control, then ran around like a headless chook for 5 minutes. Had a good plan to 3, but careless approaching the control, got off line in the thick stuff near 4 and overshot. From there fairly clean through to 12 except for a major drift on the long leg to 8. Finished it off by getting lost half way to the last? (might have been second last) and then failing to see the finish banner from 5m away and doing a bit extra before I found it.

Feeling stronger than expected physically and felt like I was planning things quite well, just failing to maintain concentration, particularly in the last 150m of each leg (which I guess is kind of important)

Still had lots of fun.

H2 - Splits

Event: UWA
 

Token effort at a WU and CD.

Did a token lap of James oval as a warm-up, then straight into it. No major issues. Lost a little time on #7 looking on the wrong side of a passage for the control, also a bit sloppy into 8 and a couple of questionable route choices, but pretty happy, given I was pushing a lot harder than a couple of weeks ago.

Well down on Henry, but beat everyone else I think. From the pace, I'd hope to be a minute quicker when fully fit, but that's not too bad given my training to date.

Long - Splits

Easy cruise before heading to the doc for my '2 week post-op' check-up (only 3 weeks late). Blood test in a couple of weeks to check thyroxine? levels, then all clear.

Glad I didn't go with the guy at the front this week. He ran about 25 minutes. Seems that regular running is actually making some of them fitter. Who would haave thunk it.

Slight niggle in right achilles at about 20 minutes, but it went away. Time for some ice and nurofen before a probable hard run at UWA.

Couldn't resist the temptation of running with the cross country kids this morning
WU, run thrus
6 x 300 R pace
with about 215m shuffle jog recovery
CD (forgot to start the watch for the lap to pick up the markers)

Efforts about 57-60 sec
Recoveries bout 1:20

So maybe just faster than I used to run a set of 12 (with only 1 minute recoveries)

Maybe not a good idea, but pain free back in the Salamons. Seemed OK yesterday arvo when the Asics were tied really loose, but that's not really ideal for running, so will have to go shopping and try to figure out what the difference is.

Good: Running fitness feels like it is gradually returning. This omrning's easy run actually felt easy.

Bad: After avoiding using them for weeks, after today's effort I am convinced that these shoes (my new ones that are meant to be fantastic) cause pain on the outside of my heels, which seems to gradually shift towards the achilles.