Training Log Archive: kido

Warm up before POM day 1. Today's arena was in a small adorable Portuguese town called Aldeia de Mata.

POM Day 1. Today was a middle distance. I really enjoyed the map and I did really well from controls 1-12 with maybe a small hesitation on #9 which was lower than I had expected. The terrain was really open and I felt like I was moving quickly and well.

Then on 12 - 13, I felt like I had a good plan - run up to the marked wall crossing, then aim across to the large rocks in the second gully. However I spent 3-4 minutes scrambling around in green around said large rocks before finding the control, much lower down and next to two very small rocks (I couldn't even say I actually saw them). Thought this control was a bit rubbish, not sure what I could have done differently.

I got caught by Ida Marie at this point and decided if I could hold onto her I might have a fast last section of the course. This bit me in the bum though because she ran right past 14 (and mispunched) and I didn't realise immediately and had to run back up the hill to the control.

Frustrating because it was such a good run at the beginning. Definitely thought I was on track for a 38-39 min run.

Warm down. Should probably have been longer.

Warm up for the POM sprint. Very late at night by this point.

POM Night Sprint. Pretty good run. Really no errors - lost a little time at the end because I ran all the way around the end of a wall instead of going through the archways (which were on the map, but so minuscule as to be almost invisible). Still a fair chunk of time off the leaders but I was happy with it.

Alter do Chao was a pretty cool town, not super difficult, just twisting cobbled streets. The end part in the park was dark and a little trickier. The assembly was at a castle which was very cool!

Warm down after the sprint.

Jog around the Model maps. First impression - the terrain is super Aussie. I could have been in WA on one of the "Frazzle Rock Carnival" areas. Very open, with intricate boulder detail and a little bit of bracken / coffee bush / blackberries. Only odd / different mapping detail was the black line cliffs that were marked - often they were only half a metre high around areas of bare rock.

Jog along the river in Lisbon with some run throughs to remind my legs how to go fast. Did 6 x roughly 30 sec reps walk / slow jog back.

Just an easy swim to shake out a bit of back stiffness and ease off a sore right hamstring.

Pretty easy roll around Zwift Wattopia Hilly course before work. Put some effort in on the KOM and Sprint but not a lot.

Warm up jog to the track from the shop.

4 x (600 on, 100 off, 400 on, 200 off at a solid / controlled pace, just to roll the legs over but not tire myself out too much.

Recoveries and warm down.

Shop run, Norfolk Park loop again.

A long-ish run, went a bit shorter today because of a) yesterday, b) racing POM next weekend and c) got out of bed too late.

I intended to catch the tram to Malin Bridge and run up Loxley and around Damflask reservoir but I got up too late and ended up running from home. I ran down along the tram tracks along Infirmary Rd to Malin Bridge and then on to Loxley. Running on the road was crap but Loxley was pretty nice, I would say bits are as nice as Porter / Rivelin but other bits are just like abandoned industrial crap. I didn't get to Damflask, I was probably 1.5km short or so.

I was not feeling awesome today. Quite sore and reluctant, a bit of a shuffle. Better towards the end but still not amazing.