Training Log Archive: brycec

Sick. Enough so for me to say no training today - I could if I needed to but not worth it. If I didn't have a bumper week at work I would stay in bed.

Oh well should have taken the warning last week.

Anyway missed 2 of 3 gym sessions and 2/4 rides think I'll just write this week off call it a rest week and come back next week.

*edit - 3 people in my work pod other than me are sick or off sick - i must be getting what they are giving.. sigh - hopefully I can fight it off without going over the edge.

C • Sick 7

Got up to go swimming- realised feeling the edge of sick went back to bed. The fact I don't have enthusiasm for swimming at all didn't help. I don't know why I plan it I rarely do it.

Anyway better not be going down sick

A bit of spitting rain but nothing major. Enough debris to make me wonder if I would get a flat but all the popping and exploding under my wheel was uneventful. Felt pretty crap generally.

Glad I wore the wind breaker.

Felt fast - actually wasnt, some spitting rain, cadence ave was 86 happy with that.

otherwise felt shit all day and was glad to be on way home even though would have preferred to have teleported.

HBF stadium closed for full day and not going to work so probably give myself a full rest day and work on getting shins 100% again.

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