Training Log Archive: Craney

HFW - seemed to be feeling a little bit better than I expected, but still only ran steadily. Some fat bastard cyclist made me jump by dinging me as he passed - completely unnecessary as I was on the side of a wide cyclepath with no other 'traffic' about. I was so close to some comedy gold retaliation a few minutes later when we hit a hill and I started to gain on him - so I proper sprinted with the intention of returning the favour with a verbal 'DING!', but unfortunately the hill topped out just before I got the chance.

C • Hehe you paint a picture.... 1

In Brisbane with work but fortunately had quite a gap between meetings ending and my flight home, so took the chance to do a run. Also fortunately in Brisbane this means (a) making use of the excellent Cycle2City locker and shower facilities right in the CBD (b) Wendy emailing me a recent sprint course in the nearby Roma Street Gardens and (c) downloading an app that beeped when I correctly found the controls and, in theory, uploaded my result. Great fun! Well it turned out my phone went wrong so I never got the result, but it was a good run nonetheless. Only downside was I felt quite feverish and weak again, so I didn't really run properly or for as long as I had intended. Pork pie and branston pickle afterwards did perk me up somewhat.

Sunny but brrr cold. WFH today so took the chance to run on Isaacs and Farrer which were lovely as always. Took it steadily but it was more of the same: legs fine, head sleepy.

C • Cold? 2

Steep warm-up to the start.

Good to be forced to push a bit harder for the first time in a while. Some nice sections of rocks and some nice bits of bush to run through. Also some other less positive things about the race today (e.g. start in wrong spot, map badly out of date, controls hidden in unmapped dark green). Physically I feel fairly strong but quite slow. Technically not great today.

O-training on Farrer and Isaacs, more to just in terrain rather than actual nav practice. Included re-running the NOL course again but at cruisey pace this time.

Lunch run with Tomas round the back of Mt Mugga Mugga and back through Callum Brae. Quite a slog back to Kingston from there, so ran at a kind of tempo for a bit.

7x3mins on Red Hill. Pretty clunky.