Training Log Archive: Shep

At The Rockery, f#@*ing miles from anywhere, and even further from the rest of Oceania...

Pretty cool area though, mostly open farmland with some cool rock details and sinkholes. I started ok, but missed 5 - went a gully too far, pretty annoyed by that. Mostly good for the rest but took a bad route on the long one which cost a lot of time, and just got very tired... Could have done without the 3 visits to hospital in the last 5 months! Very slippery running, and pretty rough underfoot so lots on mincing going on protecting my dodgy ankle.

End up 15th, and 6th Aussie so a respectable result really - and happy to be that close to the top all things considered.

Training Load 1d 2h

F#*@ing fuming that my spot in the Bushrangers (second) relay team got taken off me as punishment for the DNF yesterday. Not sure why, I wasn't in the Bushrangers team. Leon was, and DNFd, and got the same demotion to an unofficial team with me and bertbennett.

So today was was a balancing act - beat the Bushrangers, but don't ruin the legs on a pointless race. Easily achieved the first objective, will find out tomorrow about the second one.

Training Load 1d 6h

It was always gonna be a tough ask for me to run all three non-sprint Oceania races so i always has thoughts of cutting this one short and once I picked up the map and realised it was gonna be a brutal day out I decided to treat this as a warm up for the relay. I wasn't in the Bushrangers team & there were plenty of Cockies so I wasn't too worried, actually wish I entered M40 so I could have had some training on 1:10000 before the relay. I picked and chose a few legs to run (even some backwards - sorry for confusing you bertbennett!), seemed to get the hang of it by the end...

Long - Course Course 1 - Splits

Event: Oceania Championships 2017
 

Shortened run in to work (didn't wanna run too long and the boys needed to get out of the house so they dropped me part way). Did 4 x 30sec efforts with 2min recovery towards the end.