Training Log Archive: hamlet

Mock Lead:
5.10c (onsite, a technical and short climb)
5.10d/11a/11b (new climb, rested once, completed)
5.11a (3rd time, completed, fell once at first clip so I got lowered and started again and then fell once in the middle, so I guess two falls?)
5.11a (completed w/ one fall, the short and technical wall)

Okay so after resting all day yesterday and suffering through a ton of cramps throughout the school day, I did not expect to do so well nor have so much fun doing these intervals, especially not after Monday. The intervals were 10x 45 seconds on and 15secs off.
Warmup: 1.48km, 9:16 (avg. pace 7:01)
Int. 1: 160m at 4:43/km
Int. 2: 170m at 4:34/km
Int. 3: 180m at 4:23/km
Int. 4: 160m at 4:46/km
Int. 5: 160m at 4:27/km
Int. 6: 150m at 5:01/km
Int. 7: 170m at 4:47/km
Int. 8: 130m at 5:57/km (entirely uphill)
Int. 9: 140m at 5:22/km
Int.10: 140m at 5:39/km
Cooldown: 1.59km, 11:14 (avg. pace 7:02)

Top Rope:
5.10a (onsite)
Mock lead:
5.10d (new climb, completed w/ one rest in the overhang)
5.11a (second try after about two+ months, rest like 4 times but completed)

This was a horrible run. And quite possibly the reason I didn't join the team call nor go to school the next day.
So I've already been feeling crappy about my running and lack of any results. My dad suggested I try a tempo run, and he told me to do it for 3km.
So here's the numbers:
Warmup: 1.01km, 6:59 mins (I know it is fast for a warmup, but it was mostly downhill)
Tempo: 2.62*km, 14:58 mins (avg pace 5:42)
Cooldown: 1.22km, 11:02 mins (walking for first half that was uphill)
The tempo distance is starred because I didn't really do the tempo for 2.62 km, that's just when I stopped my watch. I only lasted for 2.36 km, and then I walked the next 50 meters, and then I tempo ran another 100 meters and then stopped, and it took me a bit to realize that I should stop my watch and start it for the cool down.
So I was trying to keep the tempo at around 5:30/5:45 min/km. My dad suggested 6:00 or 6:30, depending on how I felt. But me, being too ambitious as usual, felt great running on the warm up and started the tempo very fast, so for some reason I though I could last a whole 3km like that. No, of course I couldn't. I was burning out fast, and at the 2.36km mark I burnt out completely. Now I soon as I stopped I regretted it, and that's why I still ran another 100 meters before fully stopping the tempo. Then the last 750meters I jogged. But I was so angry at myself and ashamed that I was not able to finish the run, and that I was just getting worse and lazier, and I wasn't able to push myself. That really demotivated me a lot, and I felt too ashamed and frustrated to join the call and even show up at school the next day. I know it sounds trivial, but I guess I'm too good at pushing myself down and not as good at getting myself back up. I guess that's something to work on.

I know that I've been really slacking on running lately. This week I will try to do better, but I just needed to get a mental break from running because of the frustration and stuff, but now I'm ready to get back at it.

I tried to keep up with Diana. I kept with her for the first 4 controls of the first loop, and then I had to drop back because I couldn't run that much. The heat was killing me, and honestly my recent lack of running probably didn't help too much either. For some reason I didn't even enjoy this course. It was a good course, but I think I was taking too much time beating myself up for not being able to stick with Diana and also just giving in to the heat. I didn't make any mistakes (my navigation was surprisingly good for how careless I was getting by the end, I was just lucky I guess), but my running was sort of nonexistent.

Med_Adv - Splits