Training Archive: blairtrewinIn the 7 days ending 2007-01-07:
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Sunday Jan 7 | ||
| Run 2:27:00 [3]32 km (4:36 / km) | |
| I wasn't really looking forward to this one, but for the first half it looked like the last couple of runs might have been an aberration, cruising along nicely in somewhat cooler conditions. Paid a visit at the far end to the old Templestowe Hill Climb track (a former motor racing venue which features the steepest bitumen road in Melbourne, albeit less than 100 metres long) and handled it without too much difficulty, but somewhere around 1.50 slipped into the same hole as I'd been in for the last half-hour on Thursday and Saturday. Probably even worse at the end this time - felt somewhat dizzy in the last 5 mintues and ended up dry-retching at the end. I don't think I'd have tried to keep going if I'd felt as bad as that 15 or 20 minutes out.
Something is definitely not right. If it's just not replacing fluids properly that's fixable (and it's unlikely there will be another week as difficult as the last one has been), but I'm concerned there might be something more significant underlying it. Looks like an easier week this week is called for. | ||
| C • problem 8 | ||
Saturday Jan 6 | ||
| Run hills 1:24:00 [3]18 km (4:40 / km) | |
| The plan today was to join Bruce on a hills run and I did, sort of. I saw 'sort of' because this run started unpromisingly and quickly deteriorated into the worst I've felt on a run since the last 40 minutes of the WA Champs - had no energy whatsoever and got a few good views of Bruce disappearing into the distance on various hills. Will have to reassess plans for tomorrow - going out to 2.30 or thereabouts will be difficult, and perhaps foolhardy, if tomorrow is as bad (although the weather should be more friendly than today's 29 at 8 a.m).
I suspect the cumulative effects of dehydration through this hot spell have had an impact. I dropped 4kg between Wednesday and Friday evenings, and while I've been trying to keep fluids up there's a limit to how much one can replace how quickly. | ||
Friday Jan 5 | ||
| Note | |
| Had been planning to do some laps in the pool this morning for the first time in a couple of years now my elbow's (apparently) up to the job, but this plan was aborted when I couldn't find my goggles at home and the pool had run out of ones to sell. Will try again Monday.
Commuting on the bike (which I don't list on AP) was hard enough tonight - it's 36 degrees (I've drunk 1.5 litres since getting home and am still thirsty) and my bike is just about at the end of its useful life - it's heading for the back of the garage as soon as the Melbourne Bicycle Centre can muster a replacement from the warehouse. | ||
Thursday Jan 4 | ||
| Run 2:07:00 [3]27 km (4:42 / km) | |
| Expected this to be pretty awful - not much sleep (woken up at 2.45 when a possum barbequed itself on the power lines outside and hardly got back to sleep), plus a warm morning and a tough day yesterday.
Was actually quite good for the first 90 minutes, but then fell apart - I suspect this was mostly dehydration as the low sun angle in the early morning led me to underestimate the conditions and not take on enough water. By the time I realised there was a problem there wasn't any water in easy range, and the last 30 minutes were very hard going, although picked up a little bit in the last 10 minutes. Dropped 2.5kg on this run (busily putting it back now). | ||
Wednesday Jan 3 | ||
| Run 1:12:00 [3]16 km (4:30 / km) | |
| Never really got going today; one of those mornings when I felt half-asleep for most of it. Perhaps a bit better towards the end but never great. On the warm side even early in the morning. | ||
| Run race ((street-O)) 42:00 [4]* 10 km (4:12 / km) vdot: 49.1 | |
| spiked:15/18c | ||
| Getting to this event was a large part of the drama. Expecting first-week-of-January traffic (i.e. none), I'd expected 35-40 minutes from Clifton Hill to Lilydale. Instead I was confronted with the worst Springvale Road traffic I've ever seen - at a standstill from the freeway to Whitehorse Road, courtesy (I presume) of the shutdown of the main eastern suburbs rail line for construction. What's it going to be like in four weeks time?
Got to the event at 6.57 for a 7.00 start, which obviously meant my warm-up was pretty much limited to running from the car park to the start. Didn't feel as awful early on as I expected, but quickly ran out of zip; the second half was a struggle. Some very interesting route choice, which was what separated the field because there was no way I was going to beat Adam or Bryan on running speed tonight. Felt a bit better towards the end once it was downhill and with the wind (on a 32-degree night). Only negative to the course-setting was some sketchy mapping around the Lilydale town centre - someone got a big jump on the field by using an unmarked lane. January 3 wasn't quite as frantic as it was last year, but I still clocked up eight interviews for the day. The scoreboard reads Channel 10, ABC radio Melbourne, SBS radio, the Australian, the Herald-Sun, the Northern Territory News (they'll probably put it on page 27 because there are no crocodiles involved), the Gold Coast Bulletin and Agence-France-Presse. | ||
| C • The Australian 4 | ||
Tuesday Jan 2 | ||
| Run intervals ((fartlek)) 38:00 [4]* 9.4 km (4:03 / km) | |
| spiked:17/18c | ||
| This time used a street event as the basis for a fartlek session - warmed up over the first 4 controls, then ran 20 seconds hard/20 seconds jog. (I've done the street-O fartlek session before, but more often running alternate legs hard/easy). Held it together pretty well and had a bit of zip. Route was decent too.
Tomorrow's annual climate statement day - expect to see a fair bit of me in the media tomorrow. Our minister has already been talking about its contents to anyone who would listen (although his grasp of the details has been less than perfect). | ||
| C • Climate Day? 2 | ||
Monday Jan 1 | ||
| Run ((street-O)) 49:00 [3]* 10.4 km (4:43 / km) | |
| spiked:16/18c | ||
| I haven't done a street-O in nearly a month for various reasons - unusual for me in summer - but plan to make up for lost time with three in the first three days of 2007. This was the first of them at Beaumaris. Wasn't pushing it too hard but quite enjoyable, especially the legs along the shoreline. There was one particularly nice control out on a rocky point (although I think I might have been better off staying on the beach rather than trying to cut across some pretty slippery tidal rock shelves and mudflats). Control placement and mapping were a bit erratic.
A friendly local on the way to control 8 was offering bourbon and Coke to passers-by. Not sure if he had any takers. Brought back memories of the bogan convention at the Blackburn South event. I was the first entry tonight in the year's first event in Australia, which I think makes me the first person to pay the new OA event levy. Fitting given that it was my idea. Spent a bit of time at the beach before the event and had my first go at swimming since the elbow operation. It seemed fine (which it hadn't been at any time since the pins went in) so I'll probably start doing a bit more - found it useful for recovery in 2003-04 (even if my technique is so appalling that Hanny would probably be able to do three laps in the time it takes me to do one). | ||