Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Got sent home from uni again by my caring friends who are probably better at looking after me than I am myself!
So worked from bed most of the day. Made the iffy decision to go to soccer training and take it easy, head home if i felt crap.

yeah. should have stayed home but that was never realistically going to happen!
Felt sick all of training, head itself felt fine, but achey when i got home.

physically easy training though, and made super sure I stayed out of the way of any balls that might want heading! The way i figure, even if soccer training doesn't give me a fitness work out, the amount of laughing i inevitably end up doing gives me a good ab workout!

here there and everywhere. Incl to the physio, who had managed to book my appt for next month rather than next week...so no appt for me today! 8.40am tomorrow instead

Had a good nanna nap this arvo, after my friends persuaded me to head home early from work.

Sunday event in Majura pines. Did a classic faceplant on the way to no.1 Luckily my front teeth stopped my fall...
Kept getting to the control site and not seeing the control, then finding it hanging on the other side of the tree! Garr!
Was going fine until I made an horrendous parallel error on 10, getting the wrong track and spending 2.5mins looking in the wrong block. Dumb dumb dumb and really need to work these mistakes out of my system!
Also got confused by the extra track at the last control, which was silly.

C • When I saw 4

Devil's blue lightning leg planning exercise. Sure I can count this :)

C • AP stds 2

vs Olympic on a horrible surface at O'connor enclosed. On which 4 people has already done ankles/knees today, but the ref refused to switch us to the next door field...

Dominated the first half, then fell apart in the 2nd for a 2-2 draw. I got pretty annihilated. Ball smashed into my face from 1.5m in the first half - pretty happy to find my tongue all in one piece given the force i bit down on it with. And no swelling of the face bonus, but one very very stiff jaw.
Then gave away a penalty in the 2nd half (kinda had to...but I did get the ball!) but in doing so go run over by my team mate...now my right hand is one giant bruise and my back is not the happiest! Hopefully nothing's broken in my hand, i can't grip too much with it atm though!

...and now i have a whole new set of aches and pains to complain about ;)

Event: Queen's Birthday Orienteering Carnival/NZ Superseries Round 4
 

Training on Majainslie with Devil. Started off with his corridor exercise from a couple of weeks ago, then moved on to the middle I set on Campbell park months ago. Unfortunately a fair few of the control sites were dodgy to say the least! But on the plus side, about 2/3 of them were taped! :)
2nd half of the course was better and got a bit of flow going.
Then picked up tapes from the corridor exercise on the way home. Good weather for running in, and even better weather to spend the rest of the day in my sleeping bag on the couch!

ankle area feeling a lot better this morning than the last few days (read, i couldnt get it to hurt while lying in bed lol). But this sore spot in my quad is worrying, the same thing as end of last year. I got rid of it then by taking a couple of months of due to my knee :s

to and from bruce ridge and some token dynamic stretching. After all my worrying this morning, everything felt fine. Apart from running too soon after lunch that is. glug.

7x2min intervals on bruce ridge single tracks. GPS has me doing super slow k rates cos it can't keep up wit the twisting and turning of the tracks.

Gee first int was death! my bad for starting with 2 uphill ones... Made it through though, haven't done high intensity running in a while, need to get back into the swing of it, will build in 3min efforts, but 2min felt more than long enough today, kept checking my watch after just over 1min!

Thursday late session. Saw the word fitness in our pre-training email, so decided against intervals at lunchtime. Really didn't need to, the fitness was nothing as it turned out. But prob a good decision for my tib ant anyway, will do ints tomorrow instead.

Cold. So happy my car has a good heater :)

to/from the orienteering. Right calf having spasms on the way back, and left quad hurting like anything now I'm sitting down working. What the hell, can't I just not hurt for a bit?!

C • filling in your training lo... 3

Really didn't have much of an excuse to not go to mid week metro given the lab is practically on the map.
Managed to draw all the controls in the right place, which was a win to start with :) Decided to get terrain training, so opted out of all the track options, aside from the long leg in the middle, where it would have been silly not to.
Not much to say really, bearings were off a bit. I took a stack on the way to no.2, and despite visiting the site of no.3 yesterday, I still managed to miss it. (as i did when the same site was used at the end of last year!)