Training Log Archive: fletch

Did a proper warm-up. top of left hamstring a bit sore. Don't know why, maybe compensating a bit with a sore back during the week.

Picked a crap race to try doing a sprint in regular runners rather than the x-talons. Lots of grass, dirt and slippery bits of brick and concrete.

Worst mistake was a 15 second detour in and out of a dead end which took me to the wrong side of a wall. A couple of sub-optimal route choices in the middle parts and a few hesitations at different points, but better than last effort.

Enjoyed doing this at JTC, so had a repeat dose, giving tRicky a 30 second head start. Ran much faster in parts, but made a few errors, including one on a repeat leg from the long course :(

A good challenge, but I certainly can't navigate well at that pace at the moment and would have had to go slower if not for having seen half of the course and the terrain an hour or so earlier.

Ricky's now 4 from 4 against me over the last 2 sprint events. New favourite for first non-McNulty at the Sprint champs ;)

No cool down. Probably a mistake.

C • Official class 5

Long - Splits

Came back from holidays down south today and was dumb enough to have an iced coffee on the way home. That, combined with my extreme stiffness from the drive, left me wary of pushing hard on the proposed 5km time trial, so I opted out.
Standard WU and CD. I started running with Wil, ran with him till part way up the back hill, then jumped across to Andre and paced him. He put in a massive surge up the second half of Durston. Strange.

Felt OK, but managed a few spew burps even sitting at 4 min/km-ish pace and afterwards, one of my eyelids swelled up really badly. Dunno if it was an insect bite or the start of an allergic reaction. Pretty happy I decided to take it easy.

Easy week is looking a little easier than intended, but never mind. Awesomeness will get me through a 24hr race (where have I heard that before??)

Not as crap as last time, but apparently i'm still pretty darn slow.

Managed to ride into a dead-end on the way to #1 on a track that I just didn't see on the map on the wrong side of a big rock surface. Hardly surprising given that I did no warm-up and wasn't really focused.

#2 I spent a long time deciding which way to go, probably picked a slow way anyway, and also managed to get some old wire wrapped through my front wheel which took quite a while to extricate.

#3 I overshot and went down to the watertank as I just didn't see the small trail up to the control (or the one after it). Also a bit slow dropping down the hill to the main road on the way to #4.

Got better after that, and was pretty happy with things through to #14, where I came out of #13 at a slightly different junction to what I thought, didn't check my direction and took a massive detour, with a big stop to figure out where I was. Apparently lost about 6 minutes there. Would have almost looked respectable without that.

Physically felt much better than last time. Who would have thought that a little bit of riding helps you ride better? Still a bit too stop-start on the nav, but I seem to screw up too much if I worry too much about flow :(

Didn't see a single person out there until I was approaching #15.

LONG COURSE - Splits