Training Log Archive: T - runner

Katoa Po post event at Whakaipo Bay. Cool course - managed to hang onto the others after the mass start until the long leg, then got dropped a bit, but did pretty well in the last forest block apart from one control. Felt pretty tired after last night.

Katoa Po - discovered I need to put new batteries in my headlamp - it would have made life a lot easier. Got mass started cos our team was a bit of a make up one and a few of the earlier runners took forever. Was pretty slow and cautious.

Katoa Po pre event. Caught Ross on the way to 1, which was fairly surprising, then we both screwed 2 up quite badly, and I lost heaps of time trying to get across the gully to 4 (blackberry=evil), but other than that had a reasonable run.

At 100s per 400m/50s per 200m pace: 60s, 90s, 120s, 180s, 240s, 180s, 120s, 90s,60s, 240s with each rest half the length of the previous interval - very intense! The three minute interval at the end was pretty hard work. Fun though, and not many people around because it had been raining.

Warm up and down - my place to the track and back, plus a few laps. With Lizzie (as were the intervals). Hamstrings a bit tight on the warm down.

Two games of indoor - our one, about 20 mins after finishing intervals, then the game after because they needed another girl, so Lizzie and I stayed to go halves, but then their girl got injured so we both ended up playing, and both games were really intense, and I was hungry by the end of the first one...intense day...

Silverstream afterwork O. Glad I was already in Upper Hutt for class because it totally wasn't worth it otherwise - fairly unexciting, very easy course, even for an "introductory" one. Running a bit easy after yesterday. Definitely need a bike day soon.

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Warm up, with Jamie a bit before his showdown with Todd, warm down with Todd after his tactics were slightly less than successfull...

To and from the race. To is easy, as its all down hill, back is harder, both because of having just raced, and because of the constant uphill.

Decided about lunch time that I would do the waterfront 5k race again - kind of wanted to get an accurate time after last time with the distance problem. Felt much more prepared this time and didn't give myself ischaemic gut... Di ge the sticth a bit at about the 3km mark, but got through it pretty quickly. On the whole I was really pleased - got my best time ever. I think I might have even been able to go faster if there had been someone to sprint off at the end:)

Run from the botanics up Tinakori Hill, over the back and round the side. Losing people left right and centre along the way - Magnus and Lizzie about halfway to run home, Jamie B-W a few minutes later, and Hamish a few hundred meters before the end when we went straight past his house. Only Paul and I got to the end. Nice easy pace, which was a bit surprising given that Lizzie and I were the only girls.