Training Archive: blairtrewinIn the 7 days ending 2007-04-08:
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Sunday Apr 8 | ||
| Run race ((orienteering)) 1:40:40 [4]*** 15.8 km (6:22 / km) vdot: 31.2 | |
| spiked:23/23c | ||
| Didn't miss a thing (although a couple of routes might not have been quite optimal). Handled the distance well for most of it - and achieved one target, that of defending a four-minute start on AJ and ten on Shep. Faded away a bit in the last 20 minutes, which was rather disappointing given my work over the summer - I held ground with the field, but the opportunity was there to take a couple of minutes out of them over that stretch and I wasn't able to take it. | ||
Saturday Apr 7 | ||
| Run race 37:45 [4]*** 6.3 km (6:00 / km) vdot: 31.3 | |
| spiked:16/18c | ||
| A solid run without being totally convincing. One annoying 30-seconder but otherwise clean, felt good in the warm-up but not quite the speed that I might have hoped for. Moved up in the standings though, and now well inside the top 10. | ||
Friday Apr 6 | ||
| Event: Australian Easter Orienteering Carnival | ||
| Run race ((orienteering)) 16:45 [4]*** 3.2 km (5:14 / km) vdot: 35.3 | |
| spiked:16/17c | ||
| Easter prologue. About a par sprint performance for me, 2.5 minutes down. Drifted a little on 2 but nothing serious. Thought I was really struggling because Simon caught me so quickly (by just after 1k), but that turned out to say more about him than it did about me. | ||
Wednesday Apr 4 | ||
| Run race 13:28 [5]3.83 km (3:31 / km) vdot: 56.7 | |
| The Tan. Last hit-out before Easter. Was in two minds about whether or not to do this but thought a quick 13 minutes wouldn't do any harm and a decent time would help my confidence. Felt excellent in the warm-up, but then was a bit slow out of the blocks (again). Picked up as it went on and a good finish, with some speed at the end - 62 is the fastest final 330 I've done for a long time.
It was my best time this season but I might have hoped for something more, especially given the excellent conditions and lack of other pedestrian traffic (although I think the latter is more annoying than time-costing). Km splits: 3.34, 3.40 (uphill), 3.29, 3.27. | ||
| Run 29:00 [3]6.5 km (4:28 / km) | |
| To/from the Tan. Felt good, particularly on the way there. | ||
| Note | |
| Went to a pub quiz night last night with a group I go with every month or so. We win about 50% of the time (which essentially means we get a fair number of cheap meals at the same venue next time). My contribution last night wasn't as great as usual because there were a lot of TV and movie questions, but it was certainly useful for one question: 'what sport combines map-reading and cross-country running'. Just to leave it in no doubt, I was wearing a 2003 Australian Championships polo shirt at the time...
(Shameless plug department: I'm organising a quiz night on Friday 27/4 as a fundraiser for the election campaign. All comers welcome. The only hint I'll give is: know your gangsters...) | ||
Tuesday Apr 3 | ||
| Run 1:18:00 [3]17 km (4:35 / km) | |
| Ran from near work on a loop which went as far north as the sacred site of Windy Hill. Last run of any length before the weekend, although I may go out hard for a bit tomorrow depending on how I feel. This one went well for the first half, but suffered a bit from lower back tightness in the second half, not sure why.
Signs that make you wonder: in Ascot Vale, 'Weighbridge and Aged Care Facility'. Is this a nursing home for old truckies? | ||
Monday Apr 2 | ||
| Swimming 30:00 [2]1 km (30:00 / km) | |
| Swim at Fitzroy. Normally swimming is pretty visually unexciting - from the time I've spent chasing a black line I can understand why so many swimmers retire so young - but a diversion was provided today by a large column of smoke not too far to the south (turned out the fire was in a church in Collingwood).
Had the usual quasi-fortnightly session on my calves afterwards. I do this with one of the Australian athletics team doctors which gave me the opportunity to catch up with news from the World Cross Country Champs in Kenya (as well as to ask a few questions about how unusual a testosterone ratio above 4:1 really is). The team did pretty well in spite of very hot, humid conditions, and managed to get back in one piece despite much apprehension caused by an alleged terrorist threat before the event. Like most such threats, this one came to nothing. I suspect the process of making one goes something like this: (warning: kids - don't try this at home. Making terrorist threats is illegal and can get you in a lot of trouble). 1. Look up the name of a group that has done something in your country of interest in the past. If no such group exists, pull a few words at random out of an English-Arabic dictionary. Don't worry that what you've called yourself might translate as the Martyrdom Brigades of the Flying Spaghetti Monsters - no-one in the Western media will be able to tell the difference. 2. Put together a few paragraphs of suitably blood-curdling rhetoric. Mention words like 'jihad' and 'infidels' a few times and make a big deal of your connections to Al-Qaeda. Mention as many countries by name as possible to maximise the number of places you get media coverage in, and throw in a couple of small inoffensive ones to keep everyone guessing (Scandinavian and Baltic countries work well for this, as does New Zealand). 3. Attach a bin Laden video you found somewhere on the Internet. 4. Send to Reuters, the Associated Press or any News Limited newspaper. Steer clear of Al-Jazeera - they actually know enough about what's going on to be able to see through this stuff. Fortunately for all of us, actually carrying out an attack is considerably more difficult. | ||
| Run 41:00 [2]8 km (5:08 / km) | |
| MFR Monday night cruise from Nicola's place. It's the first time for a very long time I've attempted to run on the same day as getting the needlework done on my calves (which causes them to tighten dramatically for a few hours), but a 11-hour gap was enough and it was fine. Bruce decided that even this was a bit too much for his taper and gave it a miss (to be fair, he was feeling slightly off and was coming off an exceptional race - one to watch this weekend).
Left dinner early to go home and find the source of the $2,519.10 gap in the OA accounts that the auditor found (now traced to some double-counted GST and a 10 cent transcription error in the MTBO WOC account, so I can sleep now). | ||