Training Log Archive: AlistairR

Event: NZ JWOC Trials
 

15 up and 10 down. Legs didn't feel very good before the start.

JWOC Middle Distance trial. Had second start behind Matt. Wasn't as calm as I usaully am when I started and couldn't stop thinking "if you fuck this up you don't go to Slovakia" surprisingly I started of well and pretty much nailed the first three running pretty hard. Had a good Idea of where 4 would be but saw Matt running further down than I expected so went to look down there. Stupid idea as he had just fcked it up and I'd caught him. Lost about 3 minutes looking in the wrong place. Went well through 5 and 6 but got caught out by the multiple earth banks on the way to seven like alot of people. 8-13 were alright but couldn't keep Nick and Tim in my sight for more than one control as they came past. Made a parallel error at 14 which cost me a couple of minutes but caught Tim again as he did worse.

Came 5th even with the mistakes 4mins up on Eugene, Ryan and Liam.

Men - Splits

Cruised down to logan park did some dynamic stretching then 5x100m strides followed by a bit of warm down then jogging back to carrington.

To and from the event. Fine on the way there but pissing with rain on the way back.

Another summerseries event. This time on town belt south. Was on my guard for mapping errors this time but some of them still caught me out. Was better than last week but still lost 5mins+ over the course, 95% of which was due to the map. Felt better running today but still struggle on hills longer than about 60m. Easy run tomorrow before heading up to Wellington on friday.

Also punched 7 in the 8th box and 8 in the 7th box and forgot to tell the people at the finish so I'll probably be down as a mp.

C • Passing the buck... 5

Fuck.

Woke up with a sore throat, not to bad but bad enough to have today off and hope I can do the summerseries tomorrow.

Easy week this week but will do my last hard/long run tomorrow.

OY at middlemarch. Map was really similar to Earnsleugh that we used at nationals 2010. Had a pretty good run all up just a few mistakes but nothing over 30-45 seconds. Was pretty open so had to run prettty hard, was feeling good on the flat and downhill but still struggling a bit with the hills. Ended up winning it ahead of Ryan (1:10).

Picking up controls and then bringing them down to the road to be picked up.