Training Log Archive: Olivia

Nice to have a day off, esp after Susan told me that the Brown course today was 7k with 420m of climb!

A really fun race around Newcastle town centre. I am pretty happy with how my race went, I made a few marginal route choice errors which I'm slightly annoyed about but no big errors for once! Started off well, remembering the awkwardness of the first control from last year, but made a mistake in the route to 2, and then lost map contact and had to stop and work out where i'd got to before carrying on, it probably lost me 20~30s, but that was my biggest error. The course was fairly straightforward so spent the rest of the race working on planing ahead and control flow. It worked well for most of the race, made 2 small route choice errors going to 8 and 12. For 8 I had planned to go left about and avoid the hill but got to the junction and instinctively turned right, and only noticed when I started up the hill, it probably only cost me 10s, but took a little extra out of the legs. To 12 I just didnt see the shorter left about route to the control until after I'd fininshed. Im not sure how much time I lost, but it wouldnt have been much.
1st Eoin McCullough 29:46
2nd Paul P 31:20
7th Declan 36:37
9th Me 37:05 (first female)
13th Kat 40:51

Nice combination of sprints and strength work, was actually able to sprint today (pain free) which was nice. Still having trouble with squat thrusts, and one legged planks, but now they are only uncomfortable instead of painful. One more race tomorrow and then a much needed weekend off to help my legs recover!

Warm up with Susan to try and loosen off the legs, it didn't really work, still felt really tired before I started.

Legs really didn't want to play, so tried to keep it steady and mistake free. That lasted til the 3rd control where I didn't read the control description and lost about a minute fighting my way down into the control. Then spent the next few legs desperately trying to catch Susan, which lead to another mistake into 6, finally caught and passed her at 8. Apart from a minor loss of concentration on the way to 13 which meant I thought taking the direct route was a good idea, 45s of wading through brambles later I appeared on the path I should've taken. The hill to the finish was just painful, and killed what little power I had left in my legs.

This was supposed to be a very gentle recovery run with Susan but it was hijacked by James and became a hell of a lot faster than anticipated.

Really felt the last three days and so running was slow and my quads just gave up after the first set of lunges. A shorter version of last nights core workout to finish, which was fun in a sadistic kinda way. Susan also started a bit of a water fight, and yet ended up bone dry whilst I was soaked!

Good class tonight, a nice mix of running and core work, the last 10 mins were purely core focused, and hurt like hell.

Post parkfit core workout with James, Dillon and Emma. Lots of messing around trying to do handstands. A few very painful exercises including holding yourself in a pike position over two upright tyres, ouch!