Training Log Archive: michelle

red 4. because i was very tired. was too high on the first one, but thought i was too low, and 8th control was a bit messy. it was a pretty orangey course. i didn't run much. too tired and sore, i need to stretch.

long run to indro then back through tennyson.

ankle much better. just a bit twingy. so tired today for some reason. had 7 coffees today and i still fell asleep on the train coming home from work.

ankle feels a lot better today, but i thought i'd give it a day off since i had uni from 8 til 6, and i have to babysit from 7. i didnt really feel like getting up early this morning.

got up very early to go for a run. only my ankle was very stiff and quite sore. it improved after i walked around for a bit, but i couldn't really run. i tried anyway, but i couldn't run very far without it hurting a lot. so then i went home and still had half an hour before i had to start getting ready but i was too awake to go back to sleep so i made some lunch :) so now at lunch im going to go shopping and buy a new bag because yesterday it broke and i stapled it up but this morning it broke again and the staples werent really working.

map memory. the first map was 350m due west. and only one control was marked on the map so we had to remember where we were too. spiked every control until the 10th when i completely forgot where i was going, i could see the control circle in my head but i couldnt remember at all where it joined into the map, so i ran around in circles for a while, then i went back up the hill to no 9, turns out i was pretty much in the right place, only a couple of metres out so that was really annoying. then i nearly went straight past the 13th map (i think...it could have been the 12th or the 14th) because i had it in my head that it was on the other side of the hill but since i ran past the map i saw it so that was kinda lucky.
hurt my ankle when i stepped on top of a log but didnt quite make it, but i dont think its too bad.

normal warm up plus some distance estimation along the track. pace counting didnt really work for me because i kept forgetting.

had 2 hours to kill so i went and stretched, felt heaps better afterwards. then i had a sleep :)

warm up from track to the duck ponds and one lap of the thingy.

3 ~3-4 minute jog/walk recoveries after each set

ran to the road along the pond past the engineering buildings after the last set.

back to the track, walked the last bit.

4 sets of 3 laps of julias hills course. didnt have my watch so i dont know about times, but im guessing between 4 and 5 minutes for each set. there were lots of bugs. about 2.30 rest after the 2nd set, then probs 4 or 5 between the next two. pretty happy with this sesh, i was pretty tired and it was a decent effort for once. probs shouldve pushed myself a bit more on the last lap of the last set tho, it was a bit slow.