Training Log Archive: Shep

Easy run with Jo along the filthy Dnipro river. definitely on the way up, i should be back training by the weekend i reckon. now begins the long journey home... and the usual post WOC disappointment..

watching the relay at woc. good results all round for the aussies!

feeling heaps better now, but doc said to keep away from the running business a while... till the kidneys recover. gonna have to give them a hand with some cold slavutic.

walked around town a bit. still improving but feeling pretty weak. this must be how warlders feels all the time.

C • yep 3

got out of bed in the arvo and ate a bit and it stayed down. feeling a lot better but still pretty seedy. needed to get out of my room so i went to the pub with JLA, tdh, reubster and Annika and i drank a f*cken ice tea.

got out of bed twice. once to piss and once so the chambermaid could change the sheets.

C • you should have logged that ti... 8

Cruise around the wild-dog budgie-smuggler-gym island in the Dnipro. Some filthbags were playing budgie smuggler basketball too. Running with TDH, robw and Reubster, with TDH pushing the pace a bit towards the end. Not feeling great... and later in the day it got even worse. chucking my guts up and then chucking up anything i tried to put back where my guts were. real bad pain in kidneys too, luckily the Swedish team doctor for some antibiotics into me to get hold of the filthy ukranian infection and save me a trip to an infected filthy ukranian hospital. couldnt have run the long even if i made the final and it looks like i wont be running the relay, unless someone has a kidney they want to donate?

easy run with Reubster around a filthy island in the Dnipro with dogs and sleeping ukranian filth.

fark me. what a bad race, right from the start i was making mistakes! i punched a wrong control for the first one, but realised and spent a few minutes trying to work out where i was... then it felt like every seconds control i was missing. there was a lot of running on trails and in grass then into the forest for a control, and back out onto trails again. i dont think i really switched back on each time i came into the details, so i made lots of small mistakes. most of the race i was doubting i would qualify but as i was coming into the final section i started thinking i might as i was looking to run about 60 mins which was the expected winning time (i new it would be faster than that though) and i saw some other guys in the other heats that were on about the same time, so i thought maybe i would sneak in. but i missed the 2nd last and last controls... then i ran into the finish with the guy who started with me and the commentators were saying he was coming into 10th place. but damn, my heat was faster so i missed out, only 4 seconds behind 15th place, less than 9mins down. oh well, i dont think i deserved to get into the final, and now i can get pumped for the relay.

first time i've missed a final at woc...

C • damn 6

Event: WOC 2007
 

easy run with brett, annika, JLA and Reubster from our hotel onto some dirty island where people take their hookers. best bit was running past an open air gym with filthy ukrainians doing weights in their speedos. ran 4 x 30second ints with a 2min jog recovery near the end. finished off at the subway station and crammed into a train and dripped sweat on some old man to get back to the hotel.

cruise with reubster around the long/relay model.

after running the model i ran 8 x 1min efforts with a 1min jog recovery around some filthy lakes. hamstrings still pretty tight but ok, and my heel is healing surprisingly well.