Wednesday May 31 |
 | Run 1:35:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| slow, very slow |
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| C • CITY CHASE 5 |
Monday May 29 |
| Orienteering tempo (7 weeks of Jukola) 44:00 [5]*** | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| Leg 5 - Bicentennial Park. Must have run 12ish km today. Was super fast. Really great session. Pity I knew the map so well. |
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| C • Calgary 3 |
| Run warm up/down 16:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
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Sunday May 28 |
| Run long 2:31:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| long tough run. pretty solid pace with Robbie and Andy. dont really know where we went, involved NOSH up to last hill, then pipeline, and pipieline hill and back through two creeks |
Saturday May 27 |
| Run intervals 25:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike flats |
| with Ken Greens group. 5 of 6 x 3min. Same as 2 weeks ago, in fact, trained similar level. but didnt feel good today, legs bit heavy, think pushed too much on Thursday. (I knew that then and thought i should take it easier) So it was a bit disappointing cos I think I am running better than 2 weeks ago. What made it worse was noone was training around me so it just felt like an age to the fast group in front of me. |
| Run warm up/down 56:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
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| Run 53:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| bicentennial park. felt like a run, but legs heavy. otherwise feeling quite good though. really feel like running in ultra soft terrains etc like a marsh. unfortunately none available |
Friday May 26 |
| Note | |
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| feet are up, drinking coopers. not going to move |
Thursday May 25 |
| Run hills 24:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| with Stingers. Up Grovenor. Full length; 7'01, 6'41, 6'30. takes ~10min to jog back to bottom. feeling quite good, crusied a bit on first couple. |
| Run warm up/down 37:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
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Wednesday May 24 |
| Run 1:49:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| Lane Cove up to Robbies then Two Creeks to Roseville Bridge return. Was very pretty this morning. |
| Run 34:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| just felt like another run, well at least until i started |
Tuesday May 23 |
| Cycling 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| on trainer. |
Monday May 22 |
| Run warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike flats |
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| Orienteering tempo (7 weeks of Jukola) 50:00 [4]*** | |
| shoes: Nike flats |
| Leg 4. Ran on Sydney Park map, bit over 10km we think. Was great training. Lots of controls, mass starts, restart twice more. Great fun, great to be orienteering. Awesome. |
Sunday May 21 |
| Run 2:05:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| Roseville to Seaforth along NOSH course and back. with prong and andy. pretty tired. hopefully legs come good after good stretching |
Saturday May 20 |
| Cycling long 4:55:00 [3]135 km (2:11 / km) | |
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| Philesque training - on an ordinary day I would have a chance to out cycle my house mate, but he is doing a 12hour race today!
Pretty buggered to start with, quads feeling it. Really need to make sure I stretch all the time. Nth Strathfield to Lindfield (pick up Prong) to Hornsby to Bobbin Head to Akuna Bay to Northern Beaches to Lindfield (drop off Prong) to Nth Strathfield. Epic, and I'm stuffed. Had to get pizza delivered, despite it being a 5 min walk away. Oh, found a cafe with awesome sticky date pudding, where was it Prong? |
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| C • Mona vale! 1 |
| Note | |
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| AOC breakfast and AGM.
Sat down at a table for breakfast with some older boys. Had trouble involving myself in the conversation about whats in your private jet (seriously!). Good experience, chatted to some nice guys,
AGM was succinct and interesting. Presentation of Beijing Olympics update was pretty interesting, as was awardee Bob Ellicott's (minister for sport during Malcolm Fraser government and establisher of AIS) speech. Some of the AOC programs gave me some good ideas for orienteering. Need to look in to them more though. |
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| C • Private Jet 2 |
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| C • private jet 1 |
Friday May 19 |
| Note | |
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| AOC - Australian Olympic Committee Reception for 2006 Winter Olympic and Paralympic teams
Was a who's who of Australian Winter sport. Lots of big names there. The Aussie Olympic suits are really cool. Fitted pin-stripe design. Might check out ebay. No time to train today, was a long day. |
Thursday May 18 |
| Run intervals 40:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike flats |
| 10 x Observatory Hill reps in the city. mainly stairs with some gentle uphill. quads stuffed before i started. not great, but solid. robbie was running bloody well, andy and prong were trying to prove a point by doing more. i was too tired to get it. |
| Run warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Nike flats |
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Wednesday May 17 |
| Run 1:32:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| Lane Cove - with an emotionally destroyed Robbie.
Shit it took a long time to drive to uni after |
Tuesday May 16 |
| Cycling 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| spinning session.
whilst watching simpsons and then neighbours. I dont think docs would recommend that either, was okay for the first half but head not right after the 2nd half. Harold Bishop needs a bit of spinning |
Monday May 15 |
| Run tempo (7 weeks of Jukola) 1:22:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| ohhh.. the long night.
Killed it, feeling pretty good and ran a scorcher leg.
Ran first part was on Great Nosh course, up to Roseville Bridge than ran on roads til turn around. But half and half bush tracks and roads. Pretty much ran even splits. Might be actually getting fit. and this whole eating more is a treat, feel much better. |
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| C • What a session, looks brutal b... 2 |
| Run warm up/down 18:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
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| Note | |
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| My brother was named in the WOC team today. Pretty awesome, but this horrible feeling in my stomach as well.
Well done Kez! |
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| C • pain? 4 |
Sunday May 14 |
| Kayaking 2:10:00 [3] | |
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| Paddled some kayak - mirage (?) double kayak with Damon. Also with Robbie and Prong who were supposedly in a faster kayak but they went the same pace. Went from the spit bridge all the way up middle harbour.
It really hurt, and I'm going to be sore for a while. Left forearm kills.
Yes you all read it right... I went kayaking. Canberra ACTAS softies can think of it as gym session or cross-training, are they the vogue words? I can never keep up. |
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| C • Converting? 2 |
| Run 1:56:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| straight after the kayak. did track from Spit bridge to Manly - very scenic!
Felt absolute shit for first 20min then pushed it along a bit to make it more solid. Partly cos Prong was being a smartarse and thought I'd make him hurt. Pretty solid run in the end and felt better and better as went along. Did start tiring after about 1h40 though.
Need to eat lots. |
Saturday May 13 |
| Run intervals 25:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike flats |
| with Ken Greens group at Centennial PArk
ran 5*3min with ~2min float. Top guys did 6, I skipped 4th interval. Pretty good session, died on last otherwise running pretty well. Still a fair way off top guys, shit they are fast though. |
| Run warm up/down 55:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| pretty solid warm-up/cool-down |
| Orienteering race (BigFoot Sprints - qualifi) 20:00 [4]*** | |
| spiked:13/15c shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| ran pretty solid. no real problems, not running particularly quick so shouldnt make mistakes. pretty tired from this morning. Dave went straight through me, lacked motivation to try to go with him. |
| Orienteering race (BigFoot Sprints - final) 17:00 [5]*** | |
| spiked:13/13c shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| Chasing start, started 4th. 3 min behind Dave, 1.5min behind Prong, 30s behind Robbie. Decided to try to start hard, stop pussing footing around like qualifier. Caught Robbie quite early, and we caught Prong around half-way. I just physically had nothing though, so we all finished together but I lacked motivation to finish hard when so tired, so ended in 4th still, in a tight finish for 2nd. Ran min quicker than Dave, and obviously 30s faster than Robbie. No real mistakes, but not hard in a pack either. Didnt take the lead, and actively tried to rest on a couple of legs as was so tired |
| Run warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
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Friday May 12 |
| Note | |
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| what a fucked week. got home late after a shit long week at uni to do some training to discover my house mate has run off with the wind trainer. maybe ill go for a jog in the pitch black but not for a while. need to recover from this bad spate of angry man |
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| C • pub instead 4 |
| Run 34:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| got a run in.
not feeling well, pretty run down. been a stressful busy week with little sleep |
Thursday May 11 |
| Run intervals 20:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| With the Stingers, included surges up some hills with some long transits, hence the long total time for the day. Didnt feel great, and didnt want a really hard session either. Try to save it for Saturday morning tho I'll have to feel better than this.
Ankle feeling much better again so happy with that. |
| Run 1:26:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| The rest of the running, consisted or warm-up, cool downs, transits between intervals, running to and from the station, and even home from Strathfield station instead of waiting another 30min for the next train. |
Wednesday May 10 |
| Run 7:00 [3] | |
| (injured) shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| meant to be a long run, but ankle too sore so turned back.
then frustrated at uni as found out i couldnt get access to any of the bikes. |
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| C • 7min 5 |
Tuesday May 9 |
| Cycling 57:00 [3]28.7 km (1:59 / km) | |
| (injured) |
| nice being on the road bike again. bit of a change. wanted to rest the legs a bit and the ankle is a little sore too.
rode at dusk, didnt realise blind people were allowed to drive |
Monday May 8 |
| Run warm up/down 29:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
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| Run tempo (7 weeks of Jukola) 1:13:00 [5] | |
| (injured) shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| Tough session tonight. Ran pretty hard the whole 73 min, other softies all pulled out after 50min. Went over on left ankle a bit bad. Didnt stop session. iced it a bit. Robbie went harder when he knew i went down, bugger... |
Sunday May 7 |
| Orienteering race (Metro League) 44:00 [4]*** | |
| spiked:10/11c shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| Metro League - Penant Hills. Made a 9 min mistake! Was a bit stupid, but sick of how shit the maps are. Why in Sydney do the events that attract the most people (apart from SummerSeries) have the worst map, and its passed of as just because its shitty Sydney sandstone. Its so fucked, and short sighted.
Anyway, I was still second in our challenge and our club won. Felt pretty tired in second half, not much strength there. |
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| C • Sydney maps 4 |
| Run long 1:49:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| Straight after Metro. Ran with Andy and Glenn til 50min, then ran through Macquarie Park neighbourhood to check it out before back to the car.
Cafe time after was a bit swanky, had a $7 milkshake in a normal size wine glass!!! |
| Run warm up/down 6:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
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Saturday May 6 |
| Run intervals 24:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| Intervals with Ken Greens group
1km (its longer): 3'28, hill 1'35, 1km 3'28, hill 1'36 then shorter rest 1km 3'40, hill 1'48
pretty good session, mixed it with a few of the guys in the squad til last 2 where I hit the wall very hard
absolutely stuffed now |
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| C • The group 2 |
| Run warm up/down 57:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
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Friday May 5 |
| Run 42:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| jog with JonT around the largest cemetary in the Southern Hemisphere - over 1 million graves |
Thursday May 4 |
| Run 30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Creation 5 |
| easy stroll |
| Run intervals 15:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| Mangrove boardwalk intervals. 6 x ~73 sec.
Love this session, so much fun running along the boardwalk taking the turns etc. Ran about 90% tonight, wanted to feel fast but relaxed. It got really dark though, going to have to start ealier - I started at 5:15pm. |
| Run warm up/down 31:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
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Wednesday May 3 |
| Run 1:31:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Puma Complete Trailfox |
| run with Robbie.
cutty grass can be painful |
Tuesday May 2 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| just didnt get round to it. motivation is coming back though. |
Monday May 1 |
| Run tempo (7 weeks of Jukola) 1:15:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| new inspiration - thanks Tio!
started our 7 weeks of Jukola training. Aim is to run tempo for the same length as the different legs of Jukola. As it was week one, had to do 70min tempo - as for leg 1 Jukola. Did 75 though, not because I think I'm going to be 5 min behind! but the loop length worked out that way - 6 laps of Lane Cove weir loop. |
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| C • Jukola 2 |
| Run warm up/down 29:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 5 |
| not nice starting in cold rain. |