Sunday Nov 11 |
 | Orienteering 1:00:00 [5]***** 15 km (4:00 / km) | |
| spiked:23/25c |
| Venice street race. Pretty amazing experience, even now I can't quite believe that you are allowed to leg it round all these ancient alleyways and piazzas. Half of the tourists and locals seemed to think it was all very funny and half of them seemed to think it was completely outrageous - you got a real mixture of cheers and abuse! I had a decent race, ran about as fast as I could given the intensity of the navigation and only made a handful of hesitations. Matthias Merz pipped me by about 6 seconds, but he did start a bit later so probably a few more tourists about...I lost about 20 secs with a crap route to the last control, but so did Merz so fair enough.
Very tired afterwards and sore legs from the hard surface. Sorry to leave Venice though, it was a real shock to see cars again... |
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| C • oh no - 11 seconds in the f... 10 |
| Running warm up/down 35:00 [2]6 km (5:50 / km) | |
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| Jogging about in amazing sunshine. |
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ME - Splits |
Saturday Nov 10 |
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| Event: Venice Street O
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| (rest day) |
| Hardly a rest though. Spent the whole day walking about and looking in art galleries. Covered a lot of alleyways and crossed a lot of bridges. My endurance for wandering aimlessly was better even than Jenny's today - she's normally very good at that kind of thing from years of shopping training. |
Friday Nov 9 |
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| (rest day) |
| Out to Venice. |
Thursday Nov 8 |
| Running Drills 20:00 [4]1 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| Drills at Myers Grove, usual session with 8 sprints. |
| Running 40:00 [1]7 km (5:43 / km) | |
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| Rest of the Loxley run with Jen in the blustery wind. |
Wednesday Nov 7 |
| Running 40:00 [2]7 km (5:43 / km) | |
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| Just a quickie up Loxley Valley. |
Tuesday Nov 6 |
| Track session intervals 30:00 [5]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Hallamshire track session. Strides and drills then 3x1500, 1x1200 off 5.55, 5 whole secs less recovery than last week and boy did I feel it. Started a bit too hard and faded badly, 4.41, 4.49, 4.53, 3.56. Think I equaled my 1500 PB on the first one... |
| Running 55:00 [2]10 km (5:30 / km) | |
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| Run to track and back with Rob and Mike. Found it hard to get myself out of the door for the run there tonight, but the run home is my favourite session of the week. It hurts but the worst pain is over for a whole 7 days! |
Monday Nov 5 |
| Circuits 35:00 [3] | |
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| ShUOC circuits, 45/15. Feeling tired after a day of surveying, but I feel like I'm getting used to some of the exercises, esp the side ones, which I was really struggling with to start with. Not so painful the next day anymore either. |
| Running 45:00 [2]8 km (5:38 / km) | |
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| Run to circuits and back with Heather plus some w/u before the session. |