Training Log Archive: Bomb

OY at Mountain Station. gps distance 11.3k A little more grass than usual, but still one of my favorite maps ever. Started off a little average - missed a bit on the first few controls, and wasn't really paying enough attention (especially in an area where there really isn't any excuse for missing anything). Had a gel at the first water point, and things improved after that. Couple of boring hill slog legs towards the end to blunt any enthusiasm for running hard, but overall it was a nice day out.
Feeling a bit too tired to do particularly well - yesterdays efforts definitely took their toll on todays race, but good training, and a good reminder of how much attention is really required to race well.

long run from bridgets place in the gap. very tired, and plodded along very slowly this morning.

Middle distance at charlies paddock. fairly boring course and excessively easy control sites, so pretty disappointing run given that we went down a day early for it. still, good fast terrain run.

was going to go cycling this morning (even bought a new tyre and changed it over last night), but was way too tired at 5am. Seem to find running in the evening a real killer for the next mornings training.

recovery plod. didn't take james this time, so actually got to run at recovery pace instead of tempo pace. I think its beer-o-clock now.

Ran in to RaceElements. Pretty boring run (so tried to do it reasonably fast) - nearly all on roads or bike baths. My knees are going to hate me tomorrow.

river loop with dan and lisa. yummy breakfast at 16th - rye toast was heaps better this week.

More hills. After 4 years I still think this session gets harder each time. Didn't really have much go at the start - feeling pretty flat and unmotivated, and thought I was going to end up with quite a slow time, so 5 secs down on last week was quite a good time in the end.

Gave Kirra (my housemate) the gps with the course recorded from last week, so all she had to do was follow the arrow. Got round ok, cos it beeped madly whenever she went off course. (I tried giving her a map last week, and it really wasn't much use!!)

feeling a bit off today with a sore throat and headache. had a few days last week when I wasn't feeling so great, but though I was getting better. everyone seems to be getting sick at the moment and I keep encountering yucky germy people. really don't want to get sick!! had enough of that this year!

race elements. strange session today - new programme, and kinda felt like it should have been really hard, but wasn't. did 3 sets of everything today instead of 2, but I guess it meant we got to miss the nasty chinups at the end.

'recovery' run with James to the end of long pocket. didn't end up really being a recovery run for me cos James runs way too fast.