Training Log Archive: LeanimalIn the 7 days ending Apr 18, 2015:
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Friday Apr 17, 2015 #
Trekking 1:45:00 [1]
Family hike to a mountain refuge in Samaria Gorge National park. Gorgeous views of the still snow covered mountains and the gorge.
Thursday Apr 16, 2015 #
Trail Running 1:10:00 [3]
Jaunt around the property where we are staying in Crete with KD. Down into the fragrant orange and lemon groves and then up to a lookout before finishing off the run with an olive grove bushwhack. Stunning scenery and fun to stop and take photos of the fig trees etc.
Sunday Apr 12, 2015 #
Trail Running 3:18:00 [4] 26.2 km (7:33 / km) +1250m 6:06 / km
Well this went better than I expected anyway. I signed up for the 26km course at the Beaujolais Villages Trail race. KD was going to sign up for the 14km but it sold out so it was just me on the start line on Sunday. We drove west on Saturday and stayed at a nice B&B in a converted farmhouse with horses lingering outside the windows and a trampoline for Wee. I was nervous about the race knowing that I haven't run enough and have not run that far yet but also about the fact that we have not been training BigE to take a bottle of pumped milk yet so when we tried that for the first time in a month it was a no go. The boy was PISSED! I actually thought it was going to take me 4 hours to do the race with how I have been feeling so he was going to need to take a bottle from someone or the crew was going to have to meet me at an aid station so I could feed him. Luckily we timed it all right and he slept through the whole race so I could feed him at the finish. Phew!
The race was really cool and very different from what I am used to running on. We went through vineyards and did three ascents with one of the taking us across a ridge with great views of the surrounding vineyards. The descents were hardest on me and I started to feel it in my lower abdomen, you know the part that was perpendicular to the rest of my body for the last 2 1/2 months of my pregnancy. No wonder. My core doesn't quite have the endurance yet so I'll have to work on that while we are in Greece for the next two weeks (tough life I know).
My legs felt pretty good though and I took it easy off the start since I was about the 10th last person across the line having just arrived 3 minutes before the start. I used poles for the ascents and they definitely helped since I could use different muscle groups. Overall I was happy with how I felt and the course was great. Hot and dry though but at least I was rewarded with a bottle of wine with the race logo on it at the finish. It was in the Beaujolais region after all.
The race was really cool and very different from what I am used to running on. We went through vineyards and did three ascents with one of the taking us across a ridge with great views of the surrounding vineyards. The descents were hardest on me and I started to feel it in my lower abdomen, you know the part that was perpendicular to the rest of my body for the last 2 1/2 months of my pregnancy. No wonder. My core doesn't quite have the endurance yet so I'll have to work on that while we are in Greece for the next two weeks (tough life I know).
My legs felt pretty good though and I took it easy off the start since I was about the 10th last person across the line having just arrived 3 minutes before the start. I used poles for the ascents and they definitely helped since I could use different muscle groups. Overall I was happy with how I felt and the course was great. Hot and dry though but at least I was rewarded with a bottle of wine with the race logo on it at the finish. It was in the Beaujolais region after all.