Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Chirnside Borders xc league.

I hadn't done this one before, and it was a bit of an odd course, but I enjoyed it. Megan and I set off hard cause it got very narrow very quickly, and I was glad as we actually stopped at one point it was so congested. Jogged the second half a bit. I knew I had done enough to get 2nd w40 behind Megan, so let the first half of the race get the better of me. Probably last xc race of the season. Enjoyed XC much more this year, after some training. Some more training before next year and Megan is certainly beatable.

Gymnastics thingy. Have almost mastered all of the moves. It has only taken me the whole week.

C • Have faith 4

5k at 8 min miling. A bit swift for me this early before I realised that we were 7min miling at the start so a bit quick. Kept running at the end to get in the shower and pack for going home.

We’re coming back next year apparently, Lucy has decided already.

Pleased my dodgy Achilles managed this. My dodgy knee seems to have cleared up tho.

Gymnastics

Interlopers were running up to a volcano for breakfast. I took the kids in the car, parked nearby and walked the last mile or so up, as did Jase and Janine. Of our party only Laurencemade the true top - I think Hannah lacked enough ballast in the strong wind and Matthew and Lucy were not mad for it so we breakfasted up a less airy top. Fun trip, but I was v cold by the end of it.

Got back, and thought I should jog to warm my hands up. I set off hoping to see some interlopers, which I did, and my first thing in the morning sore left Achilles felt good so I kept going, and ended up at the top of the mountain. Fun. Didn’t really go for any paths on the way back, just enjoying the fun terrain until it got rocky at the bottom which was very slow. Good practice for orienteering though.

Badminton

‘8k Off road run’

It was dusty and we went up a big hill and it was too early, but apart from that it was ok.

The gymnasticy thing. I find this hard, but the only way I can convince my legs that they want to run.

Swimming. 30 mins. That’s more than I managed for the whole of 2018 in one session.

Club La Santa triathlon

Did it in a team with Lozza and Kitty, a friend of Janes. Laurence stormed the swim - nearly beating Ray(!), Kitty valiantly battled the wind on the cycle, and I did the run. Didn’t feel eyeballs out, but still a tad disappointed that Paul ‘whole triathon’ Caban did a faster time than me, and Mo ‘60th birthday’ McIntrye seemed to be closing me down. My form seems to be getting much worse during the week.

TRX for intermediates

I have done a bit of TRX when I used to do some trainingbat Dalry. It’s quite a simple way to get a good work out. This was an intermediate class, and there was quite a bit of the sort of abs stuff that my left hip flexor has flatly refused to do for the past 20 years so I had to skip some bits. Bloody boiling too.

‘Ladies cycle’ it said. ‘Coffee stop’ it said. ‘2-2:30 hours’ it said. Sounds nice doesn’t it? Pippa, Lucy Galloway and I thought so, and signed up with about 10 others. We set off up the first hill, and by then one of the party wisely decided to bail. At the top of the hill we had to wait a while for a Belgian girl, who looked like she knew what she was doing but was struggling. She wanted to keep going so the leaders said fine. Down hill for 5 miles into a strong side wind, it was a bit iffy. Pippa, Lucy and I were packing in as close as we liked to the skittish other cyclists.

Then there was a long up hill. A very long up hill. Over 5 miles into a nasty headwind on a busy road. The Belgian soon went off the back, with a friend of hers not looking good either. Near the top of the hill we stopped to regroup, but the leader at the back of the pack eventually reported that the Belgian had been dropped, and he had asked her to get a taxi - yes a taxi - back to the resort! She was in a really bad way apparently.

It was supposed to be a sociable ride, or so we thought, so why was the pace so hard that people had been dropped? And why were we on a really busy main road for ages? And - most importantly - where was the fing cafe??? So Lucy, Pippa and I, - although by far not the weakest of the pack - decided to take the quickest route back, and find some ice cream on the way, because we were after all on holiday, and this cycle ride was definitely type II fun!

Jogging about with the early morning aerobics. I find this really hard work, but takes you from physical activity being impossible, to it being a realistic prospect. Maybe this is what I need to do if I want to start morning running again.

The early morning 5k. Steady pace before Max made a break for the finish. Think Robin managed to reel him in. Then rest of the day a ‘rest day’ at the beach with non-CLS ‘normal’ friends.

Road biking beginner group. Fun, if very windy.

Crazy class of the day - aerial stretching. Hanging upside down on ribbons suspended from the ceiling. Not really my thing. Hopefully won’t hurt my abs as much as yesterday’s hula hooping.

Run up to a ridge above Club La Santa and back. Warm!