Sunday Jul 1 |
 | Orienteering race (Umuna) 1:18:55 [5]*** 11.5 km (6:52 / km) | |
| spiked:16/16c slept:7.5 shoes: Asics Trabuco |
| Forecast was terrible for today, gale warnings, 125kph wind warnings and sheep weather alert etc etc. Rained the whole drive down to Umuna but stopped as I got ready to head to the start, didn't rain a drop the whole course and was just very windy and slippery and then about 5mins into drive home the heavens opened in a torrential way, very hard to drive safely on the highway for a bit. I managed to feel pretty good running today ( I think the cold I was developing last week had a negative effect on that run) and ran at a faster pace than i have been able to. i was happy with my navigation although was cautious exiting controls and made sure I stayed in contact all course - but it was good to hit all my controls cleanly and actually find them behind the rocks I was expecting them to be behind. Saw Robbie J running hard as I was leaving... won't be long before he learns to love granite too I suspect! Saw Craig out on the course at a cross-over - - - he looked so fresh and springy! |
Saturday Jun 30 |
| Paddling 45:00 [2] | |
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| Practiced in the boat we will be using next weekend with Jen - inflatable canoe. Much easier to manoevre than the XRaid boats, wasn't really any real need to practice, they go where you want them to. Will have another go with Evo this arvo which could be more useful. Can see my hip flexors getting really sore as the bottom of the boats is flat, may have to try sitting on something during the race... my bag maybe!! |
| Paddling 25:00 [1] | |
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| Another practice paddle in the blow-up boat, this time mainly for Evo's benefit. No worries at all - Evo was fine in front or back of boat and very strong. |
| Core Stability/Stretching 10:00 [0] | |
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| Used the time I wasn't paddling to stretch major leg muscles. Don't laugh - muscle size is all relative... |
Friday Jun 29 |
| Swimming 15:00 [5] 1 km (15:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Barefoot |
| 20 x 50m flatout in a 25m pool as part of my team of 3 from work against the other work areas in the 45min SIDS fundraising relay. We were one team-member short. First two 50s were great, then the next few were prettty ugly, then it got good again. Had over 2-monhts out of the pool so was actually quite a good feeling to swim again! |
| Core Stability/Stretching (Beach session) 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Barefoot |
| Was fine all day and the promised front came through late... at 5:29:47 - consequently only the two dedicated (dopey?) athletes at training tonight, Saz and myself. Wasn't too bad, cruisy pace but did exercises properly. |
| Running (beach session) 20:00 [3] 3 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Barefoot |
| Warm up, cool down and 5 x 250m or so in the set. |
Thursday Jun 28 |
| Note | |
| slept:9.5 (sick) |
| Very tired today, but feeling I'm on the road to recovery now. Will basically do stuff-all till Sunday morning now to make sure I shake the bug so I can focus on doing bugger all next week in preparation for a hefty weekend! |
Wednesday Jun 27 |
| Running long 1:35:03 [2] 16.83 km (5:39 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Brooks |
| Enjoyable run tonight, despite the weather - 13 degrees windy and rainy. Just Saz and I running - it's actually quite motivating for me to finally have someone else who doesn't give a toss about the weather rock-up to training regularly. We ran a lap of Herdsman Lake. It was quite funny at one point where the following exchange occurred:
Tooms: (veering away from road edge) "Watch out for that puddle in the road ahead.." (points to veritable inland sea where a blocked drain has filled the outside lane)
Saz: "Mmm" ( moves a few feet away)
Then, with impeccable timing a removal van rushed around the bend and through the puddle at about 80kmph. Once the tsunami was over we were coughing, spluttering and completely drenched with great comb-overs happening!
Legs felt ok at tonight's steady pace, although afterwards my adductors were like steel cables. I'm certain there's still something wrong with my pelvis function after the bike crash a while back and all the wrong muscles are trying to stabilise the pelvis - consequently they fatigue and transfer the load to other inappropriate muscles eg. adductors to hammies to quads.
And for the record, age and guile (read cheating!) conquered youth and superior ability as I won the 60m finish sprint back to the cars with the oldest ploy in the book "Hey, look at the cat over there- - -" Saz looked, I bolted, game over. Tee-hee. That'd be 2 - ZIP! |
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| C • Finish sprint 2 |
Tuesday Jun 26 |
| Note | |
| slept:9.5 (sick) |
| Blah. |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [3] 5.4 km (4:38 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Brooks |
| Wazsn't going to run today as still sick and was going to drive from meeting pt to beach but only one guy turned up so decided I'd just do the warm-up and cool-down with him and he'd run with the others at the beach. Then I piked on my pike and did half his reps with him! |
| Running intervals 9:00 [4] 2.4 km (3:45 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Barefoot |
| 4 x 400 with 5mins rest at 3/4 pace and then 4 x 200m flat out. All super-soft sand. Throat sore afterwards but feel really good. |
Monday Jun 25 |
| Note | |
| (sick) |
| Head cold and sore throat. Better now than in a fortnight's time I guess. This is officially the year I have been sick most frequently, normally a cold every 18months or so. Dunno why this year is so different. |
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| C • Good timing 2 |