Training Log Archive: EChild

It was a good long run. Started out a little easy but got faster as it went on. Ran the bike path plus a few trials and the gold course to the park by Dorset Park which was actually quite nice for running, although I did only have to kill about ten minutes at that point. Pretty tired now, though. Great weather!

CORE!

Up (with weight gloves)

Three orienteering exercises (mini line-O, sprint, and spider) plus five agility exercises. I wore weight gloves for all but the first orienteering exercise because it would have been unreasonably hard. I did five minutes for each orienteering exercise and then three minutes for each agility, but I accidentally went over by 30 seconds on one of them.

Down (with weight gloves)

CORE! I left my watch running because I went straight into the 25 pushups, 15 on fingertips, and those took me about thirty seconds, so from now on, 12:30 means core plus extra planks plus 25 pushups, 15 on fingertips.

I should have done this a week or two ago, but it was super complicated and intimidating. Anyway, here's the course. It's crazy.

http://traclive.dk/events/event_20140404_WorldCupS...

C • It's a good course for 2

C • Logging map study 22

A bit more map study as a study-study brake. Fun course, I picked a lot of the same routes as the the competitors (although most were about the same time regardless of direction), but I cam confused that NOBODY took the route from three to four where you take the first street on the right and approach the control from the south. I thought that would have been fastest, or at least close.

http://traclive.dk/events/event_20140409_Eocetoc/i...

I decided to run a little but shorter today because the last two days were at a fairly good effort, but that isn't to say today was particularly easy. I ran with weight gloves so by the end my biceps and shoulders were fairly exhausted, and the extra weight on the arms makes running altogether a bit tougher, because it takes away from the blood being sent to my legs. Given all this, I was moving fairly well.

Four yoga sessions back-to-back:
Flexibility
Hardcore Core
Strength
Core

To be honest, I'm kind of disappointed with how easy they all were. Sure, some of the exercises were really difficult, but 75% of the time it was easy. I'm probably going to go back to my regular core routine but add a few of the more difficult exercises as well as some stretching and strength stuff. I can probably even fit all of that into half an hour, so it would save time as well.

C • Yoga 6

This was a fun one. I was a little pressed for time when I picked my routes, but I'm fairly comfortable with most of them. It's hard to make accurate decisions when you don't know how the green or marshy areas are, though.

http://maps.worldofo.com/webroute/?id=770

A nice run in the rain. Felt good, ran well, and kept up a good pace. Got my shoes a little muddy, though.

CORE! (+25 pushups, 15 on fingertips)

Up

I felt kind of sluggish during my warm-up, and I guess two hours wasn't quite enough to digest a sandwich and several Cinnamon Toast Crunch Treats (Like Rice Krispy Treats, but with Cinnamon Toast Crunch instead). I wasn't uncomfortable while running, but I didn't feel like I was ready to really push hard either. to be honest the food probably played only a tiny part in my performance. A much larger factor was the wind, which was significant enough that once or twice I had to lean into it just slightly, so I blame it for at least some of my lost time.

Speaking of which, the workout was a 1600, 2x800, 4x400, with 4 minutes rest after the 1600, 3 minutes after each 800, and 90 seconds after each 400. Goal times were 5:45, 2:40, 70-75 (each distance slightly faster than before).

My times:
1600 - 5:41
800s - 2:44, 2:50
400s - 77, 78, 81, 74

Down. It was supposed to be 10-15 but I misjudged my route.

CORE! Except more like "core :(". I did an extra minute of PLANKS at the end as well as my usual +25 pushups, 15 on fingertips. (Assume from now on that 12:00 core means extra PLANKS at the end. PLANKS, Melanie, cough cough PLANKS.)

C • Planks 12

Up

Today was even worse than yesterday.I couldn't focus on orienteering; my mind kept wandering towards other stuff and every time I tried to bring it back it would be gone ten seconds later. About half way through I finally decided I was going to think if the race as a training in concentration while orienteering, and it got a little better after that, but I was already running at a slow pace and I had already made a bunch of little mistakes which carried over to the second half. It didn't help that control 20 was in the wrong spot and I lost at least three minutes trying to find it. Turns out I actually ran past it when going to the right spot, so that was rather frustrating. Not my weekend by any means.

C • Distracted 7

Down

Sunday Classic, Blue - Splits