Training Log Archive: Cat T

Event: British Middle Distance Championships
 

Made a small unnecessary drama for myself:
last night i sat with dad (surveyor) and chatted about my races. he had an all-controls map they'd made at the last minute, for some reason it didn't have all the corrections made for the competition map, just the ones he remembered. in the final we had a control just before the first control in the arena, on a flowerbed (bushes). on the all-control map this was completely olive green, ie. OOB. i remembered running across it and thinking it was okay for some reason, couldnt quite remember why (normally pretty paranoid about going OOB). but here it was clearly not crossable. so, i was really upset but there was nothing i could do but declare it, making me DSQ. so hard after an evening of feeling happy with my race! arrived miserable at the race this morning, not looking forwards to explaining to CLOK, EUOC and everyone what happened, just to be told that the competition map had been changed to include a gap in the olive green, where we were allowed to cross. dad had completely forgotten. back up to feeling good/relieved again, then time to try and focus on the middle race...

Morning jog. tight calves.

British Middle. Classic Cat middle distance, but i think even my middle is getting better and it wasn't as much of a disaster as sometimes in the past. Good for first 3, got too confident, big mistake to 4, then lost it a bit and banana-d my way round the rest. running okay, maybe at too high intensity though, trying too hard and not v efficient at getting to the controls. Linnea showed how it's done!

Hardly any warm down. too tired, legs not wanting to do any more. walked round instead.

Event: British Sprint Championships
 

approx total for the day

Qualification. Not such a good run, rushing and making mistakes, one really stupid one and a few smaller faffs. running felt harder than i wanted for a heat! maybe from travelling early this morning. felt lucky to qualify as well as i did.

Final. Kept it together loads better, a few hesitations but no real mistakes. Really nice to run like this in a championship and not feel too nervous. Running not too bad, a bit tired by the end but tried to push hard all the way.

C • modest.. 4

fell off swiss ball and rolled out

easy treadmill run, trying to make gluts work properly. not entirely successful but legs quite bouncy.

Finally got to the newly done-up Commonwealth pool after a day of chilling out and geeking maps. So much better than the other pools in Edinburgh, 50m deep water :-D Technique feeling unsteady, just like my normal running, so concentrated on getting it right. Cant afford to train like this too often but will run here once a week for the rest of my time in Edinburgh i think :-) feeling much better than yesterday generally, not as tired.

feeling tired and lazy this morning so not doing v much. calf tight so lots of rolling

On Gullane with Alice. Lovely day but the weekend has definitely caught up, feeling harder than it should have. showing in my orienteering too, some legs good but big inconsistency, sometimes just not paying enough attention.

2 (10x90/30s), 5mins break between. Working between 80-90% max HR, mostly above 85%. hard work!

Shin feeling not so bad so decided to run the 5x1km session on the grass. a bit heavy legged after this morning and a bit unstable in my running technique for some reason, arms and legs all over, but quite enjoying myself until near the end of the first one, when i suddenly felt something in my left calf, halfway up on the outside. i think (hope) it was just cramp from being a bit tired and wearing half length tights for the first time this year. stopped straight away and walked home. may thank myself later for the extra rest...

1 1/2 laps of meadows, then caught the end of drills and strides

Here is my routegadget from Saturday: http://www.cuoc.routegadget.co.uk/cuoc/reitti.cgi?...

pleased to keep from big time losses, but didnt feel like i was going well either. finding it hard to match the map to the ground and think quickly. maybe a bad route to 2? (also fell i edge of deep marsh here when looking at map instead of where i was going). v hesitant to 1, 6, 9, and found 11 confusing when it should have been simple.

32x30/30s

shin is unsurprisingly sore today, although not as bad as it has sometimes been recently. achilles also tight on same leg, and foot from overcompensating. quite sure that foot is a soft tissue thing, have physio appointment for friday to check if i need to do anything extra to help it. so back in the CV gym for today at least, lots of stretching and rolling too. quite an easy session, have an interval day tomorrow.