Training Log Archive: BA

Rode my mountain bike home from orienteering at Goorooyarroo. First bit around Gungahlin and Mitchell not so nice, but was great once I got to Kaleen and rode home through North Lyneham and Bruce ridges. Was such a nice day today!

Went for a fantastic run this morning with Al and Shannon. It was very cold and frosty, but also absolutely beautiful. It was only just getting light when we set off and the view across to the Brindaballas from the pinnacles was so pretty in the early morning sky. Ran behind the pinnacles over towards Holt, down william hovell drive and across to a new--ish nature reserve then along the molonglo river and back home through the arboretum. It was great, but far out I was so tired by the end! The last bit home after I left Al and Shannon was very tough (and very slow!).

Intervals with Al in the morning. Was still a bit dark so probably my first ints were a bit slower as I'm a bit tentative! Did 6 x 4' (1' jog recovery) around Aranda/Black mtn. couple of little hills. Tried to push the last 2 really hard. I did the same route choice as last week doing 5 x 5 and we ran fair bit further today so I think we were going at a pretty good pace. Foot felt good! Bit tender still but felt fine running. I only slept about 2 hours last night so was pretty happy to be out running and not feeling too bad.

Got a cortisone injection in the tendon on top of my foot today. Foot is feeling bit sore and tender but ultrasound guy seemed pretty confident it would help as tendon "looked angry" and immediate after effect was that I couldn't feel any pain meaning cortisone was at least in the right spot. So fingers crossed!

Rode to and from work

I had such a great run today! I have noticed before that recovery runs do seem to help even when they are a struggle, and after yesterday I wasn't sure I'd be up for much. But I was a bit inspired today, partly by the beautiful sunny Canberra winter's day, and off I went at lunch to one of my favourite bits of bike path round the lake, near Lennox gardens and past the yacht club. I did 10 x 2' with 1' walk recovery and really tried to make every interval a good solid effort. I managed to keep the pace and even ran further on the way back than I had on the way out. I really felt those endorphins by the end! It was great. Yay! :)
Foot felt pretty good too - only noticed it once and it wasn't even bad.

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Rode to and from work. Riding home up Belco way was a bit tough! Legs were tired.

So sore, so tired, so wanted to cut back after 15 mins... but soldiered on for 30! Far out. Tired.