Training Log Archive: MTBjenIn the 7 days ending Feb 17, 2008:
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Sunday Feb 17, 2008 #
Orienteering (nav practice) 30:45 [4] 4.86 km (6:20 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Retro green Asics
Training run at UWA- John ran ahead and drew chalk marks for Haggles and I. Most of John's course was quite tricky but sometimes he made it too easy by putting the marks in the same place as the circle on the map. So then I had to make it more challenging for myself by, say, turning the map upside down, or planning routes that went through large and quite solid buildings. According to O-track i had 6min of stoppage (mostly while searching completely blank bits of ground for letters that, when they were there, were illegible. The code word was "psyubohospich" which really, anyone could have guessed.) so really my pace wasn't that bad. Perhaps if i ran slower, i would have gone in the right direction.
Anyway. It was great fun, and i have learned some important lessons. Mostly i need to simplify. Have been told this a million times but can't apply it to anything else in life so i don't know why i should be able to apply it to nav.
Dad came along too, he wasn't far behind me but must have cheated cos he only ran half as far...
Anyway. It was great fun, and i have learned some important lessons. Mostly i need to simplify. Have been told this a million times but can't apply it to anything else in life so i don't know why i should be able to apply it to nav.
Dad came along too, he wasn't far behind me but must have cheated cos he only ran half as far...
Saturday Feb 16, 2008 #
Run (study break) 20:00 [2]
slept:8.0 shoes: free teva thongs
Jog with haggles to the oval for a play then to the shops. He made lots of friends outside the shop. I just bought food, and a newspaper for my next study break which was straight after i got home. Not bitter at all (no, really) about missing a) the rotto swim due to injury or b) a lovely long mtb in the hills. Stupid exams.
Roadie (i love my bike) 46:00 [3] 20.0 km (2:18 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Always nice to be riding a bike. To metro series and back.
Orienteering (Metro series) 24:54 [5] 5.04 km (4:56 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
Swanbourne event. Felt good running and other than one silly error at the start (skipped a control because it was out of the way, but in retrospect i went much further out of the way to make up for it) did ok in terms of route choice. Sprinted the last two controls to stay ahead of henry (nothing like beating a 12y'o to boost the ego - especially an exceptionally fast-running 12y'o). Felt strong, perhaps because of sitting in a chair all morning instead of riding for 5h like some! Finished 4th (1st girl) in the M.
Friday Feb 15, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 1:08:00 [3] 29.0 km (2:21 / km)
slept:4.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
To work, then back via the river and up the coast to Floreat. Really unenthusiastic in the morning cos of late night the night before, and even less so after 11h at work. But thankfully got sent home early (i think i might not have looked all that keen when they said, oh this last case should be finished by 9pm) so made part of the beach session. Finally a seabreeze! I even enjoyed riding straight into it, it was so nice to be out there!
Strength/Core (beach session) 15:00 [3]
shoes: Feet
Just in time to do my plank then join in the second set.
Run (beach session) 20:00 [4]
shoes: Feet
John hurt his back so i could keep up with him tonight. Nothing like gleaning from other people's misfortunes.
Thursday Feb 14, 2008 #
Run (recovery) 42:00 [3] 6.7 km (6:16 / km)
slept:6.5 shoes: Retro green Asics
Early morning one, with Vera. Ran through the grass strips to the beach, quick swim, back over the hill. Felt really cool compared to last night, even though it was apparently 26 before 6am.
Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 31:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:23 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Urgh
Roadie (commute) 29:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:14 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Tail wind! Nice.
Run long 58:30 [4] 10.32 km (5:40 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
From the pool through Reabold to the beach and back up the Boulevard. Just John, Saz and I tonight. And Richard for a bit. Really hot still, leg felt awful especially on the hills but it turned out we were doing a reasonable pace.
Tuesday Feb 12, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 31:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:23 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Stonking easterly today, going to be hot hot hot again. All week. Sooo tempting to write a long story about my group ride this morning and how boltboi didn't turn up because he was too scared to meet my challenge, blah blah, but the truth is I was studying til after midnight so made an atypically grown-up decision and stayed in bed. Tooms went though, and apparently led the chase group for some time - funny how he only pulls that off when the rest of us aren't there :p
Roadie (commute) 1:02:00 [3] 27.0 km (2:18 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Rode around the river to cott and back up the beach to running. Sooo hot and windy still, not so bad riding but i have never felt less like running- was too nice lying in the shade
Run intervals (Mental battle) 27:16 [5] 6.0 km (4:33 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
Plan was 3x2km at faster than 5km tt pace, with full recovery (6min). Plan was made when it wasn't 36 degrees. First one was ok. Second much much slower but felt heaps harder. Third one i decided to jog, then decided to run the 1st km hard and jog the 2nd, which worked ok. Luckily there was a good group tonight so plenty of ppl to chase and keep me motivated. The speed that john overtakes me at is so demoralising - like the new guy, nick, said 'all you see is legs, and then they're gone'
8:51 (4:24/4:27)
9:21 (4:40/4:41)
9.44 (4:30/5:14)
8:51 (4:24/4:27)
9:21 (4:40/4:41)
9.44 (4:30/5:14)
Run warm up/down (plod) 30:00 [2] 5.0 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
Don't know about distance really. Warmup, run throughs, cooldown. Cooldown had a bit of a sprint in it when Liz and I decided to get our revenge on the footy players, who'd spent the evening flexing their muscles on the middle of the running track, by running across their oval. They were finally actually moving around, practicing some kind of footy-playing stampede (rumble, rumble..."oi oi oi! wazzawazza" rumble) across the oval. We had to make a quick escape.
Monday Feb 11, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 30:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:18 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Planned to do a ride with lisen this morning but my subconscious stopped me setting the alarm so i could have a nice sleep-in. Probably a good thing given how stiff i was on the way to work. At least i will be well rested so i can smash tooms and boltboi on those mosman park hills tomorrow.
Roadie (commute) 34:00 [3] 14.5 km (2:21 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
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