Training Log Archive: susan

Well look at that, I achieved all of m'goals for the week. Hooray! This week:

Mon - rest / day off? And nice long walk with Davy, maybe Divis?
Tues - reformer.
Weds - ‘long’ run (about an hour to 75 minutes) including EMIT OTraining at Crawfordsburn
Thurs - BARF session. Oooh speed!
Fri - rest
Sat - parkrun easy, plus 3 hour yoga masterclass woop!
Sun - UrbanO in Lisburn, also woop!

Map memory sprintervals at Drumgor - Graeme's UKCCL2 physical session. I do love SprintO. Would love to get a wee training group going in Belfast. We have LOADS of world-class standard maps.

I was super sluggish though after lots of running yesterday. Enjoyable nonetheless. If only for finding a bottle of Buckfast by a control - not once but twice. Lurgan Champagne.

Smashed glass everywhere, razor wire round the top of the walls. Grim. Makes for great sprint terrain though.

HR data is garbage - it was round my waist. Think I know why yesterday morning's readings were odd though - had washed the strap and clipped it on upside down.

Warm up / cool down / drills

Legs ok from yesterday apart from sluggish ie calves not even a little bit tight, no DOMS. Great.

Restore class with Helena, not a supported child’s pose in sight. Lots of hip opening, excellent.

I’m signed up to a 3 hour workshop next week and I cannot wait

Stormont parkrun, aiming for max HR 145 but I could make no sense of the readings on the run, and it should have had good contact. The whole trace doesn't make sense even now, except for the pickup at the end, where I did push super-hard to catch the pair in front of me. They are weak and I am strong. Think robrunner gave me that one. It is a nice rhythm to repeat when pushing hard.
Yay no SVT :)

Cool down, convincing Davy it is actually important. Practically had to trail him along. Got 5 minutes anyway, better than nothing.

Yay orienteering! NI Score Champs, delighted to get out running. Didn't have any speed but I enjoyed my run. Also enjoyed hot shower afterwards. Luxury.
HR data is rubbish, monitor slipped, somehow I stretched the band between parkrun & O so it was too loose.

Yay more orienteering! NI Night Champs. Yet again no silverware. Not even a consolation Chocolate Orange for 2nd place :(
Legs REALLY knackered, in fact I was remarking on this out there, hip flexors not flexing hips, and simultaneously tripped over a fallen tree in mega slow motion. Thankfully managed not to damage myself as I landed like a sack of spuds.
Utterly drenched, the heavens had opened in between the 2 sessions.
Most enjoyable day.

Full of rage at the world, went for run, ran out of rage, came home, ate chocolate.
Interesting nutritional and emotional links this week.

Bad food day. Subway for lunch, sausage supper for pre-dinner, pizza for late dinner, fox’s biscuits for mid-morning & mid-afternoon entertainment.
Why? Yesterday after a good morning was non stop, ate dinner v late, all mixed up, into full-on day today, won’t be home till 9 & expected cafe is closed so chips it is.
Be careful here!

Logging some teaching time, intermediate & intermediate plus covering Jayne's classes so some tough demos & flows in there

Wussed out of the 6am class on account of being up late in the evenings / nights now, but decided 9:30am was do-able so cashed in some TOIL and off I went.

Great class with Yvie, also saw 2 people fall off the reformer (one of them twice) but all landed with good grace rather than the hospitalising splat it could have been.

Class with Ali, got a couple of thank-yous for my cover last week which is good because I’m covering again next week.
The economy appears to be such that being a locum Pilates teacher could be very possible right now.
Lots of movement and rotation and strength and toe movement. I’m doing toe exercises nearly every day now. Want to be able to Mexican Wave by flip flop season.

I had a sharp-witted, informative and introspective post written earlier, except I got distracted and lost it from my phone, so will try again with the navel-gazing, thus:

Time to build some structure back to my training now. I've been kind drifting along, and that's been fine, what with the never-ending cold and starting work again. I'm now into my 5th week of O-job and Pilates-job, and it's such a breath of fresh air, literally, compared to office work. It's so easy to run out of me-time though, so it's time to bring that back in.

The big target for this year is the Causeway Coast Ultra. There, I've said it, so it must be true. So it's about building volume, and having fun, and not being so blinkered as to ignore SVT. I had such a bad run of it from mid-Dec, really it didn't do me much good at all with the Marcothon thing, but I suppose it was an interesting experiment and my legs held up much better than expected.

I'll not have BARF runs I don't think, since I'm working on Thursday evenings. I suppose that's ok for a year, but I'd like to find some running group or other, even Ormeau Runners and I think you can drop in with them. The social side of running is good, also motivating, so I'll check out what the options are.

Anyway, I'll do myself a big-picture wall chart with pen & paper, but for this week:

Mon - yoga & 'long run' there & back
Tues - Pilates
Weds - rest day, I'm working alllllllllll day
Thurs - 30 minute easy jog
Fri - rest day / HIIT session / yoga
Sat - O all day (NI Score & Night). Hopefully can run at least one of them
Sun - physical training session (Graeme's UKCCL2) & yoga if done with Explorers in time.

parkrun goals https://www.fastrunning.com/events-and-races/parkr...

Not for me, obvs

Also, I see the Armagh Urban Weekend has been picked up by Ken on the AP calendar. This isn't happening; there's a Long Urban on the Sunday in Lisburn though which I am muchly looking forward to.

How does one update the AP calendar? I suppose understanding the source info first would be a start. We're making changes to the way the NI Orienteering calendar is fed, you see.

Down to yoga, via an Explorer's house to drop off flyers. Not nearly so cold out as I had dressed for. Sweating.
HR is high for such a pace. Why is this? Dehydration? Wouldn't have thought so. Unfitness? Possibly but breathing rate is easy. Heart deterioration? I hope not.

With Helena, flow class, really really enjoyed it. There's a workshop there the weekend after next. Would like to go to it. Learn how to downward dog properly. Davy says Veda should go too.

Back again from yoga, via hot chocolate place. Little piece of heaven, that place. Co Couture. You can thank me later.
Kept Garmin on HR screen and gazed at it in wonder for most of the journey home. Why on earth is my HR up there for a gentle jog? Would be a bit more dehydrated than earlier but not much. Considering going for an ECG at the GP's just to get it checked. Not that it would achieve much but might just stop me wondering so much. I'll give it another few days (another few runs) to see.