Training Log Archive: Craig

Day 1 of Autumn Classic at Kenine Hill. Nice cruise around the paddocks trying not to push my poor heart too hard. Legs felt good and heart was fine. Couldn't read the detail on the run so just ran to the circle and looked for the flag except for number 6 where I ran to halfway between 6 and 7 and looked there for a while first. Probably about 2 minutes worth of time losses all up.

H1 - Splits

Jogged down to the oval and did 6x200m fast and relaxed with 1-2min jog recoveries getting the hr back down to about 120. Tried to pick the 200m mark on the athletics track but the markings aren't very clear so may have been 10m or so short which would just about make up for the soft grass. GPS measured it as 186-201m and the times were something like 40.7, 40.0, 37.6, 37.2, 36.3, 36.4. Not very fast but it felt pretty good.

Run through KP from work to Mount Medical Centre for stress test.

Stress test.
The nurse (Anthea) taking my blood pressure asked a few questions and when I mentioned orienteering she claimed to have been coached by Eoin in the past.

Started with about 3.8km/h at 10% incline and increased every 2 minutes (instead of usual 3) to finish at a bit over 10km/h at 22 or 24%. Got the heart rate up to 174 by the end which is pretty close to my normal maximum but didn't induce the extreme tachycardia I had at Scotch.
I did have a little bit of a feeling of some sort of restriction in my chest briefly during the test (not in the last few minutes) and again after stopping and there were a few things that the doctor administering the test said the cardiologist would want to look at.

You are supposed to wait 10 minutes after the test before leaving and during this time the doctor came past (heading to lunch I think) and stopped to talk to me. When I admitted the feeling in my chest hadn't completely gone she started searching for a cardiologist to see me straight away. Of course they were all out to lunch already and the feeling had gone by the time she came back so she let me go but insisted I should just walk back, not run.

I walked as far as the brewery and abandoned my plans to challenge Terry's times up the kokoda track but it was taking too long so I jogged the rest of the way very slowly around the river.
Heart rate was very high for the pace I was going but no odd feelings in my chest.

Usual lap of KP with Ben.
Booked in for a stress test tomorrow.

C • Stress testing 6

Little Possums loop with a few little variations to look at some blocks of land for sale. Started with Rachel but she was getting ridiculously slow with her dodgy hammy so I left her behind and ran a bit harder in the last 15 minutes so I could get lunch a bit earlier.

Usual lap of KP with Ivan. Felt a bit unfit but made it around ok. I think I'll be running with the heart rate monitor a lot for a while, new one from NavDash seems pretty good.

5k loop at dusk. Felt a bit tired and unco to begin with but it improved and ended up feeling almost normal. Good to get through a run without any heart dramas before training starts tomorrow for the 2010 WOC trials.

Course 1 - Splits