Training Log Archive: Bomb

group run at the stromlo running festival. pretty slow. started off with an o group amoung the rest of the runners - kathryn, liggo, blair, jimbo and josh, but ended up just running with jimbo cos everyone else ran away. concentrated on running technique stuff that lex told me on friday.

training session at sparrow hill. ran with mace and fel. got steadily worse at both running and orienteering as the session went on, mainly cos both brain and legs ran out of energy. found the log piles and rocks really confusing, mainly cos of the low visability. fel was a gun through the thick pine forest.

2 sprint courses at canberra uni. quite fun, and really tricky. legs were pretty dead though, so didn't run too hard.

stromlo running festival race. 3 loops - started with jasmine. found the first controls in the creek a bit tricky - but mainly just to get to rather than find. quickly figured that out and round was going to be much faster than straight in that shitty stuff. got a bit ahead of jas on the first loop cos I had the shorter one, then ended up just ahead coming off the second loop, but could see her steadily catching me on the third. she passed me with a couple of hundred metres to go, but I had nothing and got smashed in the end. 2 min time penalty added to time above cos I crossed the creek where it was apparently not allowed. most of the field owned up to their cheating and copped the same penalty.

for training and race

Event: Stromlo Running Festival
 

running clinic with Lex from actas, and Kathryn and Vanessa. apparently all my injury problems with my itb and hip are caused by overstriding on my right leg. now I have some drills and stuff to fix it. I really hope it works!

night o race at bluetts west. mass start. got off to a good start, but stuffed the third massively and ended up back with the group for the next few controls. got away with kathryn at the end of the first loop, but we had different splits for the start of the second. stuffed the third control again, and was back with the bunch. ran with Al for a while cos her light died, but then Belinda caught up so I left them together. finished the last loop ok. Second behind Vanessa, but only the two of us managed to (or chose to) go to all the right controls. chaos!

and ayups are awesome for night-o

slow morning run. probably should have had something to eat first cos I was pretty tired.

3x2km. 3min jog recovery. first one felt good, second one hurt, third was slow and horrible.
8.02 (163 ave, 181 max)
8.07 (175, 185)
8.32 (177, 185)

jog recoveries

training at race elements. new programme. didn't seem particularly hard, but I was totally stuffed by the end.

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