Training Log Archive: T - runner

Long Distance - I already knew I didn't have terrain endurance yet, but I didn't know it was going to be quite this bad! Got progressively tireder, but couldn't really maintain a decent pace anyway which was a bit disappointing - I think a lot of it was not having much stability again, so any roll of my ankles turned into way more than it should have been.

Middle Distance at Wharepapa South. Caught Claire pretty early but couldn't get away from her, and Angela caught us at about 5, and got ahead at about 10 I think. Cool course - need to work on my stability running in terrain though.

Night event. Got dropped on the way to 3 as I expected, then caught Imogen, Angela, and Rita at various points but we all went different ways so really just bumped into each other at various points. Imogen got away when I screwed up the second to last control. Don't normally enjoy night events, but this one was pretty good for the second half, even though it was freezing cold and raining!

Class, then driving up to Tokaanu in the evening with Sarah and Lizzie.

Run for 21 mins up the Hutt river and 20 mins back - just as exciting as Laura said it would be... felt not brilliantly fantastic the whole way - legs a bit stiff and not really loosening up until right near the end. Saw a film crew with some police standing around and wondered what they were up to.

2x 800m (3.35, 3.30) with a 2 min recovery and 4x 400m (1.40, 1.37, 1.38, 1.34) with full recoveries. At Newtown Park track with Todd. Felt pretty good, apart from still having a cough which was flairing up about halfway through each rep.

Warm up and down at the track.

Glut exercises.

In the dusk/dark up the road up Mt Vic - not fun but feeling good running (new shorts make a difference, haha).

Legs have been a bit achey over the last week so I decided they needed a break, then woke up to the horrible weather and was quite glad I'd already made that decision. Bought some new running shorts and socks though, so I seem to be looking forward to running tomorrow an almost unreasonable amount!