Training Archive: ToomsIn the 7 days ending 2007-10-28:
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Sunday Oct 28 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Just a bit a walk/jog with the dog this evening. | ||
Saturday Oct 27 | ||
| Rogaining 11:30:00 [1] 30 km (23:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Trabuco | ||
| Walked the chilliest 12hr rogaine I think I've ever done. I put my raincoat on about 2hours in and kept it on for the rest of the event - and added gloves and beanie! Brr. Not a pleasant area for a rogaine and I was glad we (Jen and I) were just walking - lots of fallen timber with every square metre showing signs of logging from years ago. Broken lateritey-type crap with flat vague features and most descriptions seeming to include the word "broad". Poor RobbieJ had a bit of geographical shock and used his compass more than he has done in years.
I let Jen do most of the navigating but had trouble (as always) at keeping a decent walking speed up and found myself 10-20m behind. I used the hunger excuse to stop for lunch after 90mins (mmm, sandwiches and fruitcake - rogaining seemed more pleasant with time for a picnic break!). Then about 90mins later we stopped for lunch again - seemed silly not to stop for lunch again when the first one was so much fun. After that we persevered with our planned loop until it got dark and then severely truncated it so we could wander back without having to jog. One control in a broad gully we had to search for, otherwise no dramas. Another bonus of going easier was that, oddly, my body was more appreciative of the hash-house food and I ate a wider variety than normal! Was good. Have pulled-up fine, no stiffness nor blisters or any tiredness. | ||
Friday Oct 26 | ||
| Swimming (Squad) 50:00 [3] 2.6 km (19:14 / km) | |
| Hardly seems worth swimming for 2.6km. But then I did work hard in 6 of the 100s. Given swimming is easily my best discipline I have to balance my desire to swim a "real" session of 4-6km with the fact that just pissing-about is enough to keep me going fast enough to be in-touch in multisport races. The other balancing act is I although the type of sessions frustrate the hell out of me, I get to swim for free. The coach uses a ridiculous system of (for example, todays set) 15 x 100m with 20s rest. The front guy who is the quickest gets in, has his 20 and goes, the next person who is slower takes less rest so they can leave close behind. After about 2 reps the lane is feet-on-feet and just swimming. So pointless. I through a spanner in the works when I am obstinate (which is frequently) by waiting a full 10s before I leave - meaning the couple of slower people behind get really stressed as they're apparantly not keeping up - but they're not game to leave in front of me as, without the draft, they swim like shit and I'll go straight over the top of them. I've spoken to the coach and asked why he doesn't just say 15x100 on 1.40? He said that no-one can read the clock. Rubbish, lazy, and with no regular cycle no-one really watches how fast they swim.
If I really cared I'd stay in after his session and do a kilometre or so of drills (I don'think he knows what they are) and a proper main set rather than the fluffy "medium" "firm" and "hard" bollocks we get. Ahhh, that's better. | ||
Thursday Oct 25 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Considered paddling then thought stuff it, I need to freshen-up rather than get fitter now so I took the dog for a walk, did the washing-up, then went back to sleep for 45min nap before rushing to work for my 1030 start! | ||
Wednesday Oct 24 | ||
| Swimming 1:05:00 [3] 3.1 km (20:58 / km) | |
| Meduim-paced session today so a nice sunny morning and pleasant swim. Next week it'll be dark again as the clocks are ridiculously moved. Oh the joy of dark mornings for riding and swimming and baking hot afternoons for running. Grr. | ||
| Running long 1:32:00 [2] 15.5 km (5:56 / km) | |
| shoes: Brooks Beast | ||
| 3 new people for a very slow jog tonight, 4 if you count Boltboi, plus Jen and I. Lots of looping back, stopping and waiting. Got pretty stiff and sore by the 2/3 mark. | ||
| C • Running 2 | ||
Tuesday Oct 23 | ||
| Road Bike (Floreat group) 1:40:00 [3] 48 km (2:05 / km) | |
| shoes: Bike, Kestrel | ||
| Bloody windy this morning with a dry gusty easterly. We seem to have gone from winter to summer pattern in about 36hours. Large group today, half a dozen girls riding too, to the obvious appreciation of some guys in the group who should be riding harder. The group stayed together pretty well today, probably 'cos of the wind. I felt good but was off the pace today and did enough to stay in touch. For some reason the group seemed to leave CCGS really fast and had to chase alone all along Victoria Ave till I got up to Boltboi and his bit of the pack. | ||
| Running intervals (Beach) 13:20 [5] 3.2 km (4:10 / km) | |
| shoes: Barefoot | ||
| 8 x 400m, 2mins rest. Big group tonight of 15, 2 new people, and 2 clubbies who I haven't seen in about 5 weeks. It was nice and warm, 26 degrees and there was light easterly blowing, start contrast to the last 3 weeks of beach running. There were even groups of people sun-bathing and trying out their new summer bikinis.
1.39 1.40 1.39 1.40 1.37 1.38 1.38 1.35 At number 4 I realised that I had no excuse for not running with a bit more hurt, after all there was only 1.6k to go. One of the clubbies was matching me stride for stride and we got a hard fast session ticked-off. Felt rewarding. | ||
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [1] 3 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Barefoot | ||
| Groyne and back twice, run throughs, drills. | ||
Monday Oct 22 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Prudence after a few weekends of racing. | ||