Thursday May 15 |
 | Run hills 1:02:00 [3] | |
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| Once again, feeling a bit done before I even started, but made myself get out there. (Really need another day in the week to fit a rest day in with the rest of my constraints) Up Polhill track (which went something like slow slow walk slow walk walk etc) to the Sanctuary boundary - the legs decided they really didn't need to do that little bit more to get to the turbine - then down through Highbury and the gardens and back down to the office. Returned a bit more directly than I'd planned but there's only so much you can fit into a half hour public service lunch break ;-) Awesome day to get up above the city, though. |
Wednesday May 14 |
| Run 31:00 [3] | |
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| Nice mostly relaxed run - sort of like last Wednesday only the "going in circles around a carpark bit trying to find a path that wasn't there" was replaced with a climb up to MetService (the not so relaxed bit) and a bit of a short circuit through the northern end of the gardens, before rejoining the previous route in the old cemetary. The phantom cold that had me feeling pretty bad last night and first thing this morning seems to have gone back to just a sniffle. May it advance no further! |
Tuesday May 13 |
| Run intervals 42:30 [5] | |
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| Intervals on the waterfront, 4 x 3.5 mins (which may seem a bit of an odd time, but that was when the headwind on the 1st interval finally got to me). Anyone watching the two into the wind might have struggled to pick when the interval finished...The 2 with a tailwind were much easier, funnily enough. Turned round at Weka Bay (kinda appropriate?), which I think'd be the furthest round I've ever gone when I've been joining the lunchtime athletes of Oriental Bay. Question: is there a rule of thumb how long the "down time" between intervals should be, or just go when you feel ready? (think I was doing about 2-2.5 mins)...
...and this had better not be the beginning of a recycled cold that turned up this afternoon! |
Sunday May 11 |
| "Adventure Race" 1:37:53 [3] *** 4.7 km (20:50 / km) +260m 16:19 / km | |
| spiked:9/12c |
| OK, I admit it was (allegedly) an orienteering race on Mt Kaukau, starting in a little park in Johnsonville, but... First and last couple of controls were in really groaty native bush/regen where the ground was 99% shattered rock. Mapping off track was better than I thought it would be but still not good enough to find #2 by navigating as opposed to blundering around in the general area. First part after breaking out in to the farmland was fun, especially having a bit of a hare versus tortoise race with one of the speedy Robertsons who was having a bit of a headless chook session, but then the weather hit just as I got on to the most exposed part of the course. Wind from 9 to 10 was so strong that I was concentrating more on holding on to the map and the terrain rather than reading either, so not surprising I doubled my split by visiting someone else's control first. Still I suppose any time with a map in the hand is good... |