Friday Mar 21 |
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| Event: JK 2008
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 | Warm up & strides 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Warm up before JK Sprint, tried to stay relaxed as poss to avoid stomach cramping, felt okay, no cramps. |
| Orienteering race 17:16 [5]***** 2.5 km (6:54 / km) | |
| ahr:184 max:200 spiked:13/17c shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Sprint race at Guildford. Was really looking forward to racing on this area again and wasn't disappointed. No big mistakes but a spot in the middle where I was messy after being caught by Elise and trying to refocus on my race and not how amazingly quick she was, and a big hesitation after 3 where I thought I was at 4 and nothing fitted at all. Wonder why. Didn't notice physically too much as there was so much thinking. |
| Orienteering 20:08 [2] | |
| ahr:150 max:173 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Warm down jog and chat. |
Thursday Mar 20 |
| Cycling 52:00 [2] | |
| ahr:114 max:161 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Cycling about town. |
Wednesday Mar 19 |
| Cycling 55:53 [2] | |
| ahr:127 max:158 |
| Cycling all about town. |
| Circuits 1:15:56 [3] | |
| ahr:112 max:168 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Circuits session - some technique stuff with bars which I did with such a light weight it felt a bit pointless. Some better ball work and stuff, Simong hit me in the face with a 2kg ball. It hurt a bit. |
Tuesday Mar 18 |
| Cycling 18:52 [2] | |
| ahr:120 max:156 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Cycle into work, legs starting to feel almost good again. |
| Warm up & strides 8:28 [3] | |
| ahr:148 max:161 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Warm up jog and set of strides in Inverleith Park. |
| Intervals 7:00 [5]2.2 km (3:11 / km) | |
| ahr:163 max:187 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| One of those days when I had to get the intervals in early or there's no way they'd be done. Also didn't want to depress myself with perhaps underperformance on the usual circuit after a weekend of much improvement. So went to Inverleith Park and had no distances (left) to run (ha ha) but ran the times for 800, 600, 400, 200, 200 - Managed to do the same distance in the same time for the 200s. Ran for 2.40, 2.00, 1.20, 0.30, 0.30. Rest was 90 secs every time. Felt alright, stomach still wobbly but legs feeling a bit stronger. Chest a bit tight but a whole world different to last week. |
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| C • 200m, 30s??? 3 |
| Recovery 12:14 [3] | |
| ahr:147 max:162 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Rest between intervals and the jog back to the lab. Decided to walk home with Rob in the lovely evening rather than cycle. Looked at shoes on Princes Street. Mmm, shoes. It's been so long since I bought nice shoes. Or any clothes for that matter. Restraint appears to be a striking new feature of mine. |
Monday Mar 17 |
| Cycling 6:29 [2] | |
| ahr:169 max:183 |
| Cycle to the gym -0 I think HRM< was going nuts rather than my HR was that high. Throat still a little scratch but nothing else awry. |
| Strength 46:52 [3] | |
| ahr:107 max:147 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Easy weights session - the full olympic warm up and other stuff, then just two sets of lifts - 3 x 5 of:
Hang snatch to OH squat 17.5kg
Push jerk 20kg
Good chat as usual and feeling much stronger everywhere. |
| Cycling 16:12 [2] | |
| ahr:126 max:156 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Cycling into work. |
| Cycling 21:56 [2] | |
| ahr:114 max:142 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Felt a bit headachey and grotty, still have the scratchy throat, so decided to have a slow meander up through town on the bike rather than do a recovery run. Stopped at Old College but surprised at how quick my long meandery no traffic light route was compared to my "high speed" traffic lighty one. |
Sunday Mar 16 |
| Warm up & strides 17:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Integrators |
| Warm up before relays - despite having a scratchy throat thanks to staying in the sports hall of stuffy doom, my legs etc were actually feeling like that might pull a race out of them today, so I managed a better warm up, albeit with lots of running to the loo. |
| Orienteering race 45:55 [4]***** 5.1 km (9:00 / km) | |
| ahr:167 max:190 spiked:23/27c shoes: Integrators |
| Yey! Today my body reached fifth gear for at least short sections of the course. I went out in 5th and had my usual controlled relay run, well focussed and concentrating and gradually reeling them in. Passed ShuOC without ever seeing them, passed Durham early on and almost caught Oxford, just missed them after a wobble on seeing them at number 25 having run alone for the whole course. A little weak on the hills but finally felt like there was some fight back in me. And then Hollie had a total stormer and we made second, a lot closer to the Hallam Super Team than we had anticipated. Nice one. |
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| No warm down and was too busy runnign between finish and spectator controls shouting like a mental :) |
Saturday Mar 15 |
| Warm up & strides 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Integrators |
| Half hearted warm up pre BUSA, legs still feeling like there's nothing there, not looking forward to the race but foccussing on positive navigation to pull out a decent result for the team.
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| Orienteering race 57:09 [3]**** 5.8 km (9:51 / km) +270m 8:00 / km | |
| spiked:21/25c shoes: Integrators |
| I think the fact I managed to pull off third here is more of a credit to Matt D the planner than anyone else. His course was well planned and tricky, with plenty of direction changes and the opportunity to totally lose yourself if not in complete control. My new approach to the technical side worked really well, and it was only when it reached the more physical legs and the end and I started thinking about how much everything hurt and wouldn't do what I wanted that I made an actual mistake. A bit of hesitation at first but that was maybe good as it enabled me to get into the weird scale. Great race technically, physically a nightmare, had to pretty much crawl on my hands and knees to get uphill and had to walk on a flat path. A flat path. Depressing. |
| Recovery 10:00 [2] | |
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| Warm down and catch up gossip with Ali C. |