Training Log Archive: MVB

Turkish Championship Sprint in Bolu, result: 8th/51 + 57"
Again warm up was way too short but this time I had good feeling during the race. Only 2 small hesitations of around 5" on a pretty tricky sprint and one suboptimal routechoice, everything else went smoothly. My advantage might have been that very often it was too tricky to run full speed and I could recover a bit.

Turkish Championship Long Distance: 24th/50 + 31' 07"
After a long day of meetings we had lunch and immediately afterwards they dropped us off close to the start. I already planned to take this one at a training speed because of my lack of shape and long trainings so I was not very bothered by it. Started pretty easy to get on the map and get used to the 1:15 scale. Some big misses along the way (total of 12') and very stony terrain were I did not always feel comfortable with my weak ankles but there are 2 positive things I keep in mind. I enjoyed it very much despite the many mistakes and even after a 100' race, I did not feel completely exhausted in the end. Shape is far off from what I would like it to be, but I am satisfied with the improvements so far on my shape but especially on all the problems I had. Maybe this is the first training in years that I dont have any pain when I run more than 40'.

Travelling whole day to Bolu, Turkey for SEEOA meetings with delays once in a while. Quick shakeout before dinner.

Rev2

2x 4 x 400m intervals on a dirt track which is actually 418m instead of 400m.
1'08" / 1'14" / 1'16" / 1'17" / 1'13" / 1'16" / 1'19" / 1'17"

Glad to see that I get competition from the boys and one of them actually kicked my ass. Happy they were training good during the winter and I will have some good competition in the next few months as well.

Easy with the boys.

Rev1 (deel 2)