Saturday Aug 19 |
 | Running race 56:00 [3]**** 5.5 km (10:11 / km) +235m 8:23 / km | |
| spiked:9/12c |
| Mt Tarrengower. Friendly couyrse setting, avoiding unecessary climb, and setting controls on the edge of the rock areas. Took it easy, particularly uphill to keep the calf from flaring up. Twinges at times, but the strategy worked. The outbreaks are very unpredictable. The slow pace meant really tight navigation until I caught Julie, and then I lost concentration for the next 3 controls, until I got away. |
Friday Aug 18 |
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| (injured) |
| Giving the calf a rest. For a day at least anyway. Don't want to miss Tarrengower. Apparently I'd have rocks in my head to do that. |
Thursday Aug 17 |
| Easy 23:00 [2]4.5 km (5:07 / km) | |
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| This was meant to be a 50 minute run. First aim was to ease the back pain. After 20 minutes the back felt ok, but then the calf muscle strain reappeared, so I walked back. |
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| C • Not having much luck there. Wh... 1 |
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| (injured) |
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| C • Your Calf sounds like it needs... 2 |
Wednesday Aug 16 |
| Easy 22:00 [2]4.6 km (4:47 / km) | |
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| Sore back... don't know why. This was a loosen up run. Seems the best treatment. |
Tuesday Aug 15 |
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| (rest day) |
| A bit sore afte rthe 3 hour |
| Moderate run 22:45 [3]4.5 km (5:03 / km) +60m 4:44 / km | |
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| Welsford Hill Circuit. felt and was quite slow. Not yet recovered from 3 hour. Cut it short at one circuit and will try something faster tonight around Lake neangar. |
| Easy warm up/down 11:30 [2]2.3 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Reps intervals 8:41 [5]2.3 km (3:47 / km) | |
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| Lake Neangar. Called it a day at two reps. Niggle still in the calf. |
Sunday Aug 13 |
| Real Orienteering race 2:57:00 [3]*** 22 km (8:03 / km) | |
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| After organising the ironman sprints on Saturday, ran in the Whroo 3 hour score the next day. Question.. its a Max 3 hour apparently. What does Maxi mean? Why not mini or midi or minor or major? Or just 3 hour score, or better still, half six hour rogaine.... Did the race with Julie. She dragged me along in the first hour while I was feeling my not quite recovered calf. But after an hour or so the endorphins kicked in and the calf stopped hurting. In the thrid hour I had to drag her along. But not too fast as I want to maintain some domestic harmony. We nearly managed all the controls. Reasons for missing two... bad planning as we didn't believe we would last the distance, a minor error mid way and lack of endurance fitness because of a month or so overseas. Of course, Jymbo won in two hours. I think he was the only person to run both the ironman and the maxi. A man for all reasons.
And the next day I'm far more sore than Julie.. I'm starting to worry she will be dragging me in the WRC! |