Training Log Archive: brycec

Ultimate rest day.

Got up for gym instantly knew bad idea went back to bed got up for work started getting ready knew it still wasn't a good idea went back to bed got up at 1140 groggy but much better. Just a casual 11hr sleep - #restweek is for rest.

Will go back gym tomorrow and drop the 1 cycle in/back entirely - certainly feeling good for taking the day today rather than pushing through felt like I was fraying a bit

C • Ominous 4

Pretty casual ride in another lovely morning out there!

Nothing special

https://reps.io/weBN - in short really good session - had to wear tennis shoes as runners drenched from last night.

C • Suspense 2

What a magnificent morning for riding wish I could have been out much much longer - really enjoyed the ride in, little to no wind blue sky and perfect temp.

So shins are just showing the signs of soreness - to be expected after doing 6km+ of sprint saturday arvo and then backing it up with 11.5 km long run last night - #silly.

Stretching and compression required I suppose.

Feet telltale running pains - ever since I wore those too narrow shoes for a long rogaine... #evensillier. suspect there is something more at play here that I am going to ignore.

Otherwise feeling good - the ride home was good - bike computer shitting me to tears but thats something resolvable at least.

So tweaked neck/shoulder again yesterday moving a king sized mattress upstairs... so correspondingly had a crap sleep and not great range of motion today. I wish this would properly sort itself out I feel like I am constantly getting done in this same spot - must be a bigger issue im thinking posture on computer?! (he says whilst slouching and hunching at same time... sigh)

Enjoyed the sleep in on gym light week - only 2 sessions this week.

Ride to work was somewhat uneventful - I really need to get a reliable computer on my bike though this ones work one ride and not the next is annoying to say the least.

Decided on railway bike path home wanted to take it easy but it started to spit and I didnt want wet shorts/shoes for tomorrow so finished quite hard.

Late start because I had a dinner function first - which probably wasnt the best starting point!

Emma thought I was crazy given:
- its rest week
- just had massive meal
- pissing down with rain

All valid points.

I ran anyway - Will was drenched on arrival and it was lashing it down we waited a bit then just went stuff it and off we went - via graylands hospital (appropriate), JTC, sooner to be CC playing fields - man running on that sand was BRUTAL. pretty much destroyed me getting across that. despair when I reaslised we had only done 3km at that point! and lower back was hurting and legs where burning. Rain was least of my concern - but we had both agreed it was probably the heaviest we had run in.

Was committed to 10 which seemed a stretch as we went in to bold park and up a sand trail - a short walk in there and a solid path and we where moving again until we had to climb our way out of the park toward the current CC playing fields - down the road to the corner of them and across the fields, into swanbourne golf course and around a few fairways - a bit of walking in the golf course on hills of sand and then back to a trot.

Exited via main entrance and then down to claremont lake - accidentally took the long loop around the lake and had a brief walk on the flat - starting to feel the burn a bit now. Then out to alfred and home.

Felt pretty good to be honest - pace was slow but consistent - probably could have gone harder but didnt want to blow up completely on first run or in the wet. Look forward to doing it again.

Hot shower / compression socks / milk / water / stretching / sleep make everything good for tomorrow - oh wait in a few minutes today gah. gyms going to be a challenge...

-EDIT- 19/4 - keep forgetting to add work spike light way too tight and had a tennis ball like mark on forehead for quite some time after the run lol

Yay for a rest day and a low week to come!

Event: Nav Dash - John XXIII
 

Started ok but faded very quickly.

Clean through the first few then a mistake on reading the map and a bit of a hunt for #4.

Blew up on way to #8 and backed off a bit after that recovered by about map change and had been pretty clean through all those. Tried to up the pace again a bit post map change but body wasnt havin it.

16-17-18 combo made me smile but lost time on 19 expecting it at the top not the bottom. then up to 20 destroyed my soul. Opted for the road back around I wasnt sure if it was faster than going back down the stairs - realistically was going slow by now anyway.

Sprint finish - took Paul by 2s on that split - because everyone knows its the finish that counts.

Should have put ice cream on it like Paul requested because he didnt punch the map change control and as a result MP'ed and I beat him #take it :P

Bricks timing where WAY out - they desperately need a re calibration for next week!

Leg felt pretty heavy starting this one - wanted to try stay in contact with Paul thought - started 1 minute behind him and went hard early to try chip a few seconds off him and keep in contact. did well on that until #4 which I completely muppeted and went to wrong place and had to run around like a fool.

Knew post that Paul had me - the next leg was up the staircase of pain and this put the nail in my coffin - legs smashed now. 6-7-8-9-10-11-12 all clean and easy but legs giving up really on way out to 11 and had seen Paul goign to 12 when I went to 10 so knew was semi in contact.

From 12-13 Paul was sitting at finish which led to some disappointment - I slowed up a bit then but not too much.

Finish sprint went full tilt because I knew Paul would have. eased up about 15m before control rather than all the way onto it. wish I hadnt as Paul and I tied for 8s.

Against better judgement we went for the trifecta - I started before Paul this time - again reasonably hard out of the gate but that silliness was gone pretty quickly.

Royally screwed number 4 and my race was probably over at this point.

Legs shattered pushed through 5-6-7 when i saw Paul catching me.

Probably could have held him off but he caught me at 9 because I figured we would have a sprint finish together - sadly he was in front of me just at 10 and even though I gained the 1m on him he had poll position on finish flag and after wrestling the control for a while I eventually hip and shouldered him out of the way and punched in.

I got 11s I am claiming 4 wasted :P he only got 14 - apparently he was still trying to punch ahah.

Either way I won the battle of the finish splits :P (along with the main course of the day #winner :P )

PS I think I enjoyed the medium the most but of course I will be back for Long next time! - Today was my first Navdash ever.

Legs seriously feeling todays stupidity now. :P

C • Walk home 2

https://reps.io/weAG - BLAH