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Training Log Archive: Vaala

In the 30 days ending Sep 30, 2007:

activity

time

miles

Gym

12:05:00

Ice Skating

9:55:00

Run

6:53:00

Orienteering

4:46:32

13.67

(20:58)

22.0

(13:01)

Walk

4:40:00

Yoga

4:00:00

Gym - Cardio

2:35:00

Rowing Machine

18:05

2.49

(7:17)

4.0

(4:31)

Total

45:12:37

16.16

26.0

3:29

0:00

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Sunday Sep 30, 2007 #

Note
(rest day)

Didn't get up until midday for the first time in years...marvellous! Just walked round the Domain and lay in the grass before it started to rain.

Saturday Sep 29, 2007 #

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

Yoga 1:00:00 [2]

Our usual teacher was away and we had this horrible lady taking us. Was SO not relaxing or fun at all! I think the whole class was relieved when it was over!

Orienteering race (Hillsborough Sprint) 18:08 [4] *** 2.7 km (6:43 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

Had Jono trail me round the course which was fun. Wasn't reading the map clearly enough by the end and missed out #15. Oh well, at least it's not the actual champs!

Orienteering (Hillsborough Sprint) 15:00 [4] 2.0 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

Running round course 2 with Jono.

Friday Sep 28, 2007 #

Run 1:08:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

Slow first half but improved a bit once I got up into the Domain. It was a gorgeous morning.

Note

Ended up walking to and from town from Ponsonby and then played 3 hours of laser strike. I'm buggered!

Thursday Sep 27, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 30:00 [4]

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

I need more sleep.

No class this week (or next week) but we got the whole rink to ourselves with the lights on and everything for the first hour. Brilliant.

Can't wait for Blades of Glory to finish downloading so we can have a bit of a laugh (and maybe even learn a thing or two!).

Tuesday Sep 25, 2007 #

Run 57:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

I'm savouring the early morning light before daylight savings arrives. Ran up to the Domain and through the tracks...so peaceful first thing. The trek up Bassett Road afterwards was a killer though.

Monday Sep 24, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 22:00 [3]

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

Increased a couple of weights so that was cool. Feeling pretty good considering such a lack of sleep.

Sunday Sep 23, 2007 #

Walk 2:30:00 [2]
shoes: Asics Gel Trabuco IX WR

Missioning around Shakespear Regional Park with Jono. We got caught in the rain and spent the last hour completely drenched. The hot pools afterwards were brilliant!

C • whats it like? 4

Saturday Sep 22, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 10:00 [3]

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

A good workout today.

Yoga 1:00:00 [2]

Orienteering race (Tamaki Campus Sprint) 16:16 [4] *** 2.5 km (6:30 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

I was feeling pretty stressed from the day. Silly mistakes and my legs felt like planks of wood! Glad we've got these events to warm up to the champs.

Friday Sep 21, 2007 #

Run 1:02:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

I felt horribly slow but my stopwatch was telling me something quite different! Loving the light early in the morning so at last I could run through the Domain.

Walk 50:00 [1]

Walking into town and back from the Domain. A mad dash.

Thursday Sep 20, 2007 #

Rowing Machine warm up/down 9:03 [5] 2.0 km (4:32 / km)

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

Upped some of the weights at last. Feeling good physically but pretty low at the moment.

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 11:00 [4]

Wednesday Sep 19, 2007 #

Ice Skating 1:45:00 [3]

Would have been an awesome session if there hadn't been that huge group of kids arrive after our class. We gave up early. Lots of backwards work with some mohawks and three turns. I felt like I was starting to get somewhere.

Tuesday Sep 18, 2007 #

Run 48:00 [4]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

Nice to see that I'd improved my time from the last time I ran the Broadway route, especially on about 3 hours sleep. Good morning too.

Monday Sep 17, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 22:00 [2]

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [2]

Taking it real easy this morning. Actually feeling surprisingly good.

Sunday Sep 16, 2007 #

Orienteering race (Auckland Long Champs) 1:13:41 [4] ***** 4.8 km (15:21 / km)
shoes: Jalas Black FLX

Caught and then passed my only competition by control 5. I eased off a little after that! Really quite cruisy and I had a lot of fun!

Run warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Jalas Black FLX

Really must get into this habit.

Run 15:00 [1]

Looking for Mum as I wasn't going to sit around for another 20 minutes for them to send out the search party. Luckily she was all in one piece although she did say she had a bad fall at one point. But over 3 hours? At least she didn't seem too miserable.

Saturday Sep 15, 2007 #

Orienteering race (Auckland Middle Champs) 47:04 [5] ***** 3.5 km (13:27 / km)
shoes: Jalas Black FLX

I HATE people who follow you round the whole course like a lost chicken and I know I shouldn't let them put me off...but yeah, control 13. Was going so well until then!

C • your shadow 3

Run warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Jalas Black FLX

Friday Sep 14, 2007 #

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:05:00 [2]

Taking it easy today (well, that was the idea).

After the gym I had to walk into town and back though which was kind of unplanned. Now I feel exhausted.

Thursday Sep 13, 2007 #

Run 31:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

Same as Monday's run. Not much more sleep was had last night either but I knocked a minute off the time.

Wednesday Sep 12, 2007 #

Ice Skating 2:15:00 [3]

It really wasn't my night tonight. Having trouble with my right skate...either I just can't get it tight enough (without it hurting the bridge of my foot) or my ankle is weak...or both. It's a real pain. But I passed another badge level so that was cool.

Tuesday Sep 11, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 20:00 [3]

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

Not really my morning.

Monday Sep 10, 2007 #

Run 32:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

Cruisy run with as little incline as I could find (although that's pretty hard to avoid). SOOO needed more sleep last night.

Sunday Sep 9, 2007 #

Orienteering race (OY 6 Waiuku) 1:56:23 [4] ***** 6.5 km (17:54 / km)
shoes: Jalas Black FLX

If the first 2 controls had gone like the rest of my run it would have been okay! Blundered straight off the road into the low vis and I was a goner.

Saturday Sep 8, 2007 #

Rowing Machine warm up/down 9:02 [4] 2.0 km (4:31 / km)

I have no idea where I pulled that one out from.

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

Yoga 1:00:00 [2]

Felt so good today. I needed the relaxing.

Walk (Course Setting) 1:20:00 [1] ***

Wandering round Western Park looking at control sites.

Friday Sep 7, 2007 #

Ice Skating 2:00:00 [3]

Public session with Jono and the two Steves. Remarkably quiet for a Friday night so we took over the ice. Good times!

Thursday Sep 6, 2007 #

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [2]

I couldn't sleep and ended up getting up and going to the gym. Feeling lots better today.

Gym - Cardio 10:00 [2]

Wednesday Sep 5, 2007 #

Ice Skating 2:10:00 [2]
(sick)

I was wrapped up like an eskimo tonight (even wore my tea cosy woollen hat)! After a day stuck at home in bed getting bored out of my brain I was feeling a whole lot better (helped by being rather dosed up on a whole lot of coldrel...that stuff is genius!). I just took class pretty easy (there was no way I was going to attempt that mohawk without the wall right next to me since my balance was off). We lost track of time after the class and ended up being on the ice a lot longer than I had intended.

Tuesday Sep 4, 2007 #

Note
(sick) (rest day)

Woke up with a wracking cough and got sent home from work! I am SO not good at being sick!

C • don't make it worse 3

Monday Sep 3, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 20:00 [4]

Gym 1:00:00 [3]

Sunday Sep 2, 2007 #

Run long 1:20:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2120

A nice, gently undulating run through the fair suburb of Remuera and out to Meadowbank and round St Johns Park and Waiatarua Reserve. Found a good 2km stretch of grass to run along at one point which my legs especially appreciated! I'm not such a fan of afternoon runs though so it was tough work getting myself out the door (since I slept the entire morning which was an extremely rare feat for me...having a social life is exhausting!!).

Saturday Sep 1, 2007 #

Gym - Cardio warm up/down 10:00 [3]

Gym (Weights and Stretches) 1:00:00 [3]

Yoga 1:00:00 [2]

Felt so weak afterwards and I was so tight. I think that climbing wall on Thursday really took it out of me.

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