Training Log Archive: hilarity

The usual 3.5km at City, my first km was at a pace I expect from bitumen, not sand (6:37) so I knew I was on a good thing! I stopped at the halfway point as I always do and overall did 22:07 (6:19/km) for my run - almost 3:00 faster than my previous PB.

Something is coming together, too bad my knees aren't keen on this running thing!

Then one set of intervals (:30- :30) 821m, the longest distance I've ever gone in the five minutes,

My next run will no doubt feel like hell :-)

Running clinic starts Tuesday, I hope I'm not the slowest person there!!

My weird finger callouses are getting very painful so I swapped back to my split-shaft paddle and took the tennis racquet grip off. I headed out for 3km before Karl and Kirsten arrived (19:59), then did 3.2km with K&K (26:17), then headed back by myself and with the tide (wheeee! 17:56).

I had my six month follow up echocardiogram today - for those of you following along, six months post-op was three months ago, but this has been described to me numerous times as my six month echo. Waled from free parking spot to hospital for that. And back to the car.

Then train to the big smoke with my advanced medical directive form (cos people prone to strokes really should have such a thing) to get a JP signature. I have never seen such a doddery old bat in my life and if I hadn't needed her signature I would have leapt over the desk and strangled her. She insisted on reading, slowly, the whole document - even the parts that were optional and that I wasn't filling in.

I bailed on running cos my knees hurt a LOT.

The thunder, lightning and rain at 4pm seemed to scare away half the group, with merely nine of us tonight. I swore it wasn't going to rain anymore and the guys seemed to believe me. For 800m.

Then we got pelted with rain for the next 40 minutes. Sometimes the pelting was just a nice drizzle, but then the fury came back. We were also fighting wind and a current, I took 2:00 longer to get to H Island than usual.

However when I turned around the island I slingshotted away and my pace went from about 6:30 to 5:40/km. Wheeeee!

Well that's more like what I expect from my little heart! Average 158!! I'm wondering if perhaps when I'm gasping at 125, my HR strap is slipping . . .

This was supposed to be myslow run with Clare but she forgot her running clothes so I went by myself and decided to do 5km as hard as Ic ould without carking it as a time trial.

Ran the frst 1.2km then did 100m off, 400m on for the remainder. Hard work - but happy with the pace. First km was 6:15 wheeee! and then fairly evenly around 6:40 for the rest with HR 162 or so.

Knees NOT HAPPY JAN!!!

Playing on Karl's new cable machine. Hopefully I can make this a weekly activity and get a bit more serious about figuring out exercises to do - tonight I was half doing cable machine and half watching Alex Honnold's free solo of Half Dome in Yosemite on DVD.

He didn't fall to his death this time either but it was importat to make sure.

Longest session yet and I didn't even finish it as I wanted to get home in time for The Voice. As it turned out I only made it in time to catch the announcement of Joel's team. Bugger.

There was a LOT of biffo out there tonight, mainly coming from my grid. It's hard to see what's happening in the dark but the term 'bastards' is quite clear.

On the second sprint I was on the outside of a group of four and they kept heading right, despite the turn marker being in the middle of the river. I finally convinced them to turn and I went way wide to avoid smashing into people, but the guy on the inside ran right into the pole and took a swim. That stopped everyone close behind him and I paddled away gleefully.

The women in the K2 seem to think the river belongs tp them and barged their way between a 515 and me despite there being no-one else anywhere near. If I had had a plastic boat I would have turned slightly and sandwiched them between us just to teach them a lesson.