Training Log Archive: o'man

Stayed at M&D's after the engagement party last night so had a very easy trot around the outskirts of Cornwall Park to try and loosen everything up - and to make sure everything still worked!

Started at the Muriwai end of Te Henga track and ended up on Piha Rd at end of Ian Wells Tk. Was intending to carry through to titirangi however was running out of time as had my niece's engagement party to get to so called up the transportation (who was running along exhibition drive at the time). Good call as I would have been in the doghouse if I was a couple of hour later!

Felt nice and easy for first ~1:30 - hardly knew I was running. Also had a nice patch around 4 hours or so when was feeling pretty good. Started getting tired close to 5 hours but got through to the end fairly comfortably

Tracks were pretty messy, lots of mud and water. Had to empty my shoes and socks of silt once I got up the top of houghtons. Streams running down tracks in a number of places - the Ian Wells Tk in particular

And got quite scratched up by the gorse on Te Henga - I think I'll be digging it out of my legs for the next couple of weeks.

1:55 Te Henga.
0:55 Around Lake Wainamu. This seemed to take way longer than it should have, although there'd been a bit of a flood through there recently and I took a bit of a detour trying to figure out where I was supposed to go. After looking at the map all became clear - no, don't try to go up that stream at the head of the lake... Also markers were few and far between (OK, I saw two - one at the start and one at the end) and I ended up going over the sanddunes
0:40 Up houghtons with a little tiki tour towards the top where I lost the track for a while - I didn't realise the track went over a fence. By the look of it plenty of other people had done the same thing as there was a reasonable track on the ground for quite some way
2:19 Smythe ridge, long rd, ridge rd, cutty grass and Ian Wells. Took a bit longer doing this than I was expecting.
0:10 Short run down track to access road and back to chew up a little time while waiting for C

From work to cornwall park via mt eden, mt hobson, mt st john and OTH
Managed to run pretty much all of the hills (including the steep path up from mt st john ave) so *might* be getting a little better at the hills...

Didn't take HRM, but manual count was ~160-165 at top of hills

Easy run around domain with some DS on the way to loosen things up a bit

From Browns Rd, through tracks, up Barlow, down tracks to gate, uphill to home.

Ended up (largely) feeling OK so this turned into a hilly sub-threshold of run. HR was 160+ at top of Barlow and 170+ at top of hill to home.

Only thing was R knee feeling a little dodgy. Time for some eccentric stretches on the Patella tendon again...