Training Log Archive: Sanders

Cockies long run from hackett with JLA, devil, acejase, and robw. We did the usual Majura-Ainslie loop which was good fun especially since I haven't done many hills lately. Freezing cold at the start, and it took about half an hour for my feet to warm up. Good to chat with JLA on the run when the boys were way ahead. Fun time with the kids at acejase's afterwards for coffee and BBQ'd bacon and eggs.

CORC MTB women's-only lesson at Stromlo. Had heaps of fun with about ten other girls who are new to MTBing. I was one of the worst i.e. no technical skills whatsoever, but did fairly well on the long uphill climbing bits. Stacked it once going round a rocky corner up a hills, and pulled out of one of the river crossings (by walking over it) which was right at the start. Good fun, and got heaps of good tips from the coach, including the fact that my bike needs a good clean and the chain needs fixing.

Did a short easy run in the sunshine after the CORC lesson - mainly to calm down! Some of the downhill stuff we did at the end was the steepest I've ever ridden.

Skipped the girls run to do a super easy run in inner north suburbia.

Bilbys intervals - freezing tonight, lots of us complaining about how hard it was with the cold. I did medium of 3 x 800m then 6 x 400m. Got lots of NF100 tips from Lizzy.

Street O intervals set by me around Turner. I really enjoyed Miss Jones's O'Connor ints we did one summer morning ages ago, so replicated it a bit around Turner, although I think my ints were a bit on the long side, sorry everyone!
Had a reasonable run for most of it but I must have made a wrong route choice to number 2 in the first loop, since I dropped off the back there, and also number 6 was a bit tricky cos I didn't quite see the laneway and must have run past it. Skipped a few controls at the end of loops 2 and 3 since my brain was working at only about 50% capacity, but fortunately lucy, ria and catherine were also jogging by the last one and so we planned a girls night out on the last interval, that's how motivated we were. Good work by Ria for doing all of the 1st and 2nd loops, and especially Miss Jones, Devil and GrantM for battling it out to the very end. A good group tonight. I really enjoyed it - thanks to everyone who came along!

Up at 5am to run with Kate (see note from yesterday). We ran the "wrong" way round little black hoping to see the sunrise but we were a bit early for that. Kate is awesome, we had a good chat about the usual girly stuff plus she gave me some MTB tips.

bilbys long set of 4 x 1600m, felt really good so was able to run hard the whole way. splits = 7:20, 7:20, 7:15, 7:07. Good to catch up with the others in the warm up. Everyone is getting v. hardcore - so far people have done Cap Pun, XPD, NF100, not to mention the 1/2s and maras planned.

Spent a fun night cooking for the cockies in anticipation of wed ints. Then got a late-night "emergency" txt from Kate saying could I run early with her tomorrow since our other friend Anette had bailed? I said OK then set my alarm for very early....

no training today since I'm going to tidy up my flat before O on Wed (everyone should come, it's going to be FUN), plus I need to kick-start my plan of catching up on more sleep this week so that I don't feel tired on the weekends.

Note for GrantM: I have entered the Terry Fox run :)

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