Tuesday Jun 17 |
 | Run (owie) 32:00 [3] | |
| (injured) |
| So recent advice I've had included that the only real reason to avoid high intensity training off season is to reduce injury risk. I'll accept that. Also someone suggested that intervals etc are really best done in terrain. That I might debate...
Today was going to be another intervals session, but just for a change and to get off the pavement I trotted up to the low path (as used by ringwraiths) at Mt Vic. Felt a bit sluggish at the beginning of the first interval but as it progressed got more into it, and in fact right at the end of the intended 4 minutes I was flying. Literally, after tripping up. On the only paved section of the path. I'm surprisingly good at flying but my landings apparently need some work. Decided the resulting hole in my elbow was ugly enough to call off the session and jogged back accross town to the office. Got a completely OTT reaction from colleagues just back from their 1st aid course (I suppose the swelling had got to quite a spectacular size by that stage), that resulted in an enforced trip to A&E (if I'd known I'd end up there, I was probably much closer to the hospital than to work when I went down) so a highly trained dr could clean out & dress the wound properly. Must have really valued his work for those 5 minutes.
...so while I don't think I've done any major damage, think I might just take it easy for the rest of the week... |
Sunday Jun 15 |
| Orienteering race (Wellington OY...3?) 1:33:20 [4]*** 10.3 km (9:04 / km) +230m 8:09 / km | |
| spiked:21/25c |
| Gorgeous day at Queen Elizabeth Park. Not the most technically demanding sandune orienteering, but it might just be that the way the terrain works here plays into my tendency to look for patterns in the ups and downs as I seem to have mostly good runs here. This would be one of the longest races I've run - I think I've crossed that psychological 10 km barrier a few times but not often. The climb figure is unofficial - I was just curious to see what all those 20 m hills actually added up to.
Happy with fitness & speed though the last 10 minutes were a struggle. John and I overtook each other a couple of times over the first 2/3 which kept the workrate up higher than maybe I was planning to, so I was a bit worried about whether I was going too fast, but the course only needed to be about 750 m shorter to not hurt! Technical side was a little messy early on, but after the 5th control everything seemed to pretty much click. Worst time loss was getting tangled in some unmapped vegetation on what I still think was otherwise the best route for 6-7, grrr.
Result? 2nd M21A. A "fair bit" behind Magnus but closer than I'd expect. No doubt Bill E would have taken another 5 or 10 out of Magnus' time, and there were a few other absentees who'd have been faster than me if they were shocker-free, but nice to have a good run "rewarded"... |
| Run warm up/down (warm down) 5:00 [2] | |
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| Post race warm down, just in time before the seizing up process progressed too far! Also pulled in a few controls later but don't know how long that took so won't log it! |