Training Log Archive: markg

Event: 2015 Australian Three Days
 

Event: Public Prologue: Jamestown
 

PTE 4.1

HR strap and backpack are incompatible apparently.

Faster home. Legs finally recovering from Sunday's long run and the hamstring is somewhat looser. I'll have to make one of these commute runs into something more like training soon.

Tennis ball on the hammy.

Long run from home out through Bruce Ridge, up and around the Circumcision Track, Black Mtn summit and home. Cold grey morning that cleared and became a lovely day by about half distance.

Physically I managed okay. It was pretty clear that I haven't run any big hills recently though. The climb, even broken into two sections, felt pretty hard. My right foot started to complain again near the summit - it doesn't like the additional toe flexion when running uphill. I think it needs some more stretch and release work. Hamstring was feeling a bit looser.

This was a first trial run with my Ambit3 since 1s GPS recording was fixed and I started with a twisty section through Brucie, only to realise at the end of it that I'd managed to pause it at 0s. I cracked the shits and nearly ran home which I quickly realised was ridiculous, so I got over it and kept going! The GPS recording is much better though - it followed the twists and turns of the single track much more closely - and I'm looking forward to analysing an orienteering track. I still find it amusing that Suunto managed to ship the Ambit3 with this broken. Perhaps it was just too obvious to test?

PTE 3.8

A bit of yoga and some release on left glute to help with the tight hamstring.