Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

As bad as yesterday was good. A very tough, rugged area and never really came to terms with crossing the thick slopes - was already a fair way down at halfway before things really started to unravel on the physical front. Hit wall badly at about 80 minutes and from there struggled to run even the smallest hill. One 2-minute mistake on 13, and a few annoying smaller ones. Not completely sure of the reason but suspect I may not have eaten enough yesterday. Next weekend will want to be a lot better.

Event: AUS National Championship Carnival
 

One of my best runs for a while. Hit just about everything - even the dodgy ones - with only an annoying 15-seconder on the second-last to spoil a near-flawless technical run. Also felt stronger than in a lot of recent races, which quite often happens when the navigation is going well. 4th was my best National League result since 2000.

Control 2 was sufficiently suspect that it triggered a protest (which, somewhat to my surprise, was dismissed). When you hit the control you don't ask too many questions; from another look at the map I think it may have been in the right gully but 40-50m too low, but some others aren't convinced it was even in the right gully.

Continuing to be in a flat spot at a time of year when I didn't want to be in a flat spot, despite another morning which was lovely for running (and less lovely for farming). Also seemed to hit every bunch of traffic going at the road crossings. last run before the racing starts - hope it goes better than this.

Tan: km splits 3.31, 3.37 (uphill), 3.32 (headwind), 3.27 (tailwind). OK without being startling. Windier than last week but km splits very similar. At its best in the second kilometre whilst getting onto the back of a pack (which promptly split apart as soon as I caught it). 30 metres off Bruce for most of the way.

Warm-up/warm-down for the above. The former much better than the latter. Major excitement was seeing a semi-trailer on its side underneath the rail bridge at the corner of Spencer and Flinders Streets - they'll have some fun getting that out.

Last vaguely long one before the Australian Championships week. Would have liked to go in on a better note than this - felt a bit flat despite the lovely conditions, and I didn't even have the excuse of a hard day yesterday like I usually do on Thursdays. Stiffened up quite a bit after a railway-crossing stop about 15 minutes from home.

Found out pretty late in the piece that there was no MFR run tonight, so went out on my own in the evening, rather later than I'm used to (7.45 or thereabouts), on the Eaglemont loop that used to be a regular Friday run in the days before the medical people told me to have a day off each week. Flowing well on a cool, crisp evening at times, but not really comfortable on the hills. A dark night by Melbourne standards (new moon and no cloud for the city lights to reflect off), so some of the smaller paths were a bit awkward.