Training Log Archive: devil

Bilbys ride, urriarra-cotter. A few of us were going to do condor creek, but after battling a headwind all the way to urriarra we joined the medium group and headed back through the cotter. There was a good tailwind up the hill which combined with the new road surface made for a pleasant and fairly quick ride back. Was warming up pretty well by the time we finished.

ACT athletics 5k championships. Some stuffing around at the start as the rego people hadn't given numbers to constable frogga, miss jones or myself. There were only 7 men but about 20 girls starting at the same time, with jules, frogga, miss jones and fel all running. Jose and cath turned up as cheer squad. I showed my lack of any track knowledge by having my toe touching the line and was picked up by the starter. Frogga pulled away from the start, I settled in behind no 250 for a few laps, didn't take splits but noticed that 1k came up in about 3.25 and 2k in about 6.50. Miss jones went past about then, I made a bit of an effort to hang on and managed to settle in behind. With about 1k to go I detected a bit of slowing so decided to go for it and picked up the pace a bit, it was hard work but managed to keep going well until the end. Pretty sure this is a pb for 5k.

C • PB 2

Warmup and warm down on bruce ridge. When we got back they were about to lock the track, but luckily jose had stopped the groundsman loading our bags onto his electric trolley and taking them away

Just did an easy ride home as a taper for tomorrow's big 5k!

Summer series at Aranda bushland. Not too bad a run, made a few not so good route choices and nearly did a 180 at 9. Scotty caught me between 9 and 10 so I got a ride on the train round the rest of the course.

Probably the last time I'll get to do this for a while as lunchtime meetings will have started again next month. There was quite a big turnout with frogga, miss jones and hoggster from the cockies. Took things pretty easily off the start and was in a bunch with frogga and vanessa. Frogga eased past whe we got to frith road, but I wasn't going to let him get away that easily and kept up then went back past him just before the start of the single track. Vanessa went past about halfway up the single track, I figured I'd see how long I could hang on. Just before we got to the concrete path she slowed down so I went past, Then this ADFA guy went past, I could still hear constable frogga behind so had to keep pushing for the top. Felt like throwing up for the last few hundred metres but held frogga off. Time was 3 sec slower than a month ago, which I put down to coming off a lot of training on the weekend.

Warmup running to the start, run back down with hoggster, miss jones and frogga

Backed up from the run up with bilbys intervals. Whistle set of 2x4(2),2x3(1.30), 2x2(1), 2x1(.30), 2x4(2). Ran at about 3.55 km pace and did the recoveries reasonably quickly.
Already pencilling in a few excuses for summer series tomorrow on the basis of today's efforts

Usual stuff before and after plus the bits between ints.

Took a different route mainly on fire trails through blackie, aranda (including one of the five hills), gossan hill and bruce ridge.

I wanted to do a long run today so started ecmo style at 7am and did 50 mins up ainslie and back to the carpark for a drink and a gel before the 8am start of the cockies run, saw dav the flav and a few bilbys going the opposite way around ainslie. Big turnout of Frogga, robw, acejace, hoggster, sanders, miss jones, grantm, marymac with mace appearing from out of the pines halfway round.. The cockies run was a fairly standard majura-pines-HH-ainslie. Had to run hard to stop miss jones surging past on ainslie, but was quite pleased with the way I was climbing considering it was 2 hours into the run. Coffee at sfoglia as deli marx was full.