Training Log Archive: brycec

Definitely a rest day today.

Shocking sleep last night :(

Poor little guy seems he might be getting his first cold too.

Right foot in bad form and I am wondering if there is some long term issue which is progressively getting worse - a brief scan of logs suggests not but I am unconvinced.

Shins - blah! - rice.

Got to do some planning for next training 8 weeks as I am hoping to switch gym to my core and increase cardio/intensity given current form may have to be a slow start to that.

Well I knew today was a big call given just how sore my calves where - e.g. sore to touch before even starting.

I went out had and #1 was fine - over shot #2 and got completely confused got it and went hard for #3. Shins started to kick in now.

#4 was clean
#5 went to daycare by accident and had to double back and around - annoying/
#6 - didnt realize it wasnt a garden bed and accessible - even though map said it was... stood next to control obstructed by something for a while before I got it.
#7 - Fine but certainly slowing and painful
#8 - easy
#9 - instinctively went right - stupid uncrossable fence went left one around
#10 - the ground a few people put on my on this leg could only be because they powered across that bed - whilst I fat arsed around figuring out right or left
#11 - a tad disorientated but got there fine
#12 - wasnt sure if white running was allow in sprint so carefully found the yellow strip and took it.
#13 - good but slow now
#14 - cut through some white after deciding it was legal.
#15 debated the track took the fence line
#16 went north - probably should have gone south
#17 - meh
#18 - west around to it.
#19 - bloody butchered this after dropping down towards 5 before realising I couldn't go that way and back out to main entry - I saw rob west who had been chasing me whole way going down a similar way and felt vindicated that I wasnt the only one. only to get around to the control to see him leaving it and saying he used the gate #illegal blah
#20 - rob messed up this point and I overtook him but I didnt have it in my shins to put 2 mins on him now.
#21 - saw this one on wlak to event so knew where to go
#22 - easy
#23 - ditto
#24 - ditto
#25 - accidentally aimed at finish then realised there was another control.
Fin - tried to open up but was hurting

long course - very technical - not bad for a first timer on it - but I had 3-5 mins in navigation and 1-2 in my legs being really painful.

Besides my better judgment I went and did a second - was understandably clean through almost all the controls having visited them before

Took it a bit easier but more consistent - shins whilst sore werent too bad at this pace just achey.

Found a few more optimal routes.

Tried to put on a smile for the camera as I crossed oval to finish - but I was actually hurting a reasonable amount at this point in time so will probably develop as a grimace.

Put some effort into the finish sprint but only enough to equal my dismal 11s from the long.

Craig said my running looked fluid (or words that I took to that affect) across the oval which surprised me given how I was feeling. Ill take it - guess most things look better in slow mo :P

Didnt expect to do a third as 1 I was sore and 2 it was pretty much last start or post last starts then so was just going to recoop and go.

So there was some late starters so Richard let us (Paul and I) have a crack at another map.

No easy maps left so i took the control description and the master sheet for added challenge!

There was no really going hard on this - nice and consistent plod - which I am sure rachel will attest to when I went past her guiding some people around.

There was a few new controls and not having the lines certainly made it challenging locating direction and not getting lost in the maze of controls in the demountables.

Got through cleanly and heckled paul half way through his medium when i was about to finish - He pulled the pin and we went to the final sprint off.

Shins where feeling reasonable now - so I threw in everything I had left (not much) and pulled out 8s. Judging by the official splits fastest of the day :)

Happy with that - cause we all know its the fastest finish split which is the most important!

Stuck around as was well and truely late for my ill be home between 3-330 now and did some control collecting. Got a lift home with Paul s2 who had received a text from a worried emma at 430 wondering if he had seen me alive recently - Paul could have had some fun with that.. he didnt thankfully.

Home - shower/compress/ice/rehydrate. going to have to watch these shins - something tells me lots of stretching/compression/ice/glute work required to get me back on track.

Long - Splits

Light jog to make train <1km shins burning ... Oh so familiar - sprints going to be fun tomorrow

C • Good man 4

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