Training Log Archive: Bomb

SEQ 3 days - day 2 at Old Hidden Vale. didn't really plan to run this, but ended up at the event cos I visited mum for the weekend. interesting start - copying the course from a (newer?) 1:10000 map to the old 1:15000 map, which didn't have some of the features that controls were on, so there were a few empty control circles on the side of hills. was going ok until I caught james at 5, the we weren't paying enough attention and didn't drop far enough down the hill to 6 and ended up looking for the control on the wrong hill. 6mins there, and over shot the 7th cos it was too low in the creek. another minute there, where rachel went past. cbf kicked in, and I cruised the rest home.

long run from Clare's place. James and Mat took off from the start, so just ran with Clare and Kirra. Clare turned back early to make it a 1hr run, and Kirras knee was playing up, so she went home after 80mins.
Ran into GC, up magic, across to sth boundary, jones rd, boscome rd, back to GC (then left Kirra), up magic again, 3 sisters and back down Ch9. was close to hitting the wall going up 3 sisters, but then the downhill run saved me for a while. massively hit the wall in the last 10 mins.

SEQ 3 Day - race 1 at Cotton's Paddock. New map - quite flat, with heaps of erosion detail... which had all been totally washed out by the recent floods. I hadn't expected too much from this event, but it was really fun, and the area was great to run around. would be an awesome area for a relay.
I had an ok run. brain and legs both a bit tired from this mornings run, and found it a bit hard to keep my footing sometimes in the junk hidden by the long grass, and run hard at the same time. also adjusting to the self-un-mapped erosion detail was a bit confusing before I'd worked out why things were all much bigger than mapped.

warm up to start. warm down was the walk to the b'day cake that was being cut as I finished.

37mins of tempo run, and 5mins of warm down. started running fast for no apparent reason (thought it was going to be a bit of a plod). seemed like the same pace as the intervals the other night... which kinda makes sense - I do seem to have only only fast and slow.

Race Elements. Kathy was back from holidays and it was a massive leg smashing session today - heaps of squat holds and lunges and jumps.

pretty intense class this week. heaps of upper body strength stuff in addition to the usual core work.

Intervals at UQ with Kirra. 3x2k again - same session as last week, but felt heaps better. first interval took the same time, but the second 2 were faster instead of slower.
7.57 (173ave, 194max)
7.57 (180, 188)
7.50 (177, 183)

warm up, warm down and jog recoveries.

river loop. not as cold, or slow as I thought it would be. saw the trolls out near the end, and they're looking a bit slow, and depleted in numbers these days, so I might start riding with them again sooner rather than later.