Training Log Archive: blairtrewinIn the 1 days ending Sep 14, 2014:
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||
| |||||||
| Su |
Sunday Sep 14, 2014 #
10 AM
Run race ((orienteering)) 1:15:00 [4] *** 10.4 km (7:13 / km) +300m 6:18 / km
spiked:14/15c
Oh dear. Having had a decent run (apart from one dubious control) and a decent result yesterday, today went pear-shaped in spectacular style as my body did its best to shut down inside an hour. First started feeling ordinary on the (interesting) long leg, and through 9 and 10 quickly got to the stage of struggling to run one-contour hills. Knew I was in trouble at 11 (the drinks) when I was feeling dizzy on bending down for the water container; hoped that getting some water into me there would help, but things got no better (if anything they got worse), indicated by Bruce (who'd caught me at 11) putting probably close to a full minute into me on the 600-metre leg to 12, and when the (small) hill in the early part of 13 felt just as bad I decided this was more than just a bad patch and called it a day. The way things continued to feel in the process of jogging in did nothing to suggest I would have suddenly revitalised myself for another 35-40 minutes.
I'm assuming this was primarily a question of getting my hydration badly wrong; first warm day of spring syndrome (and with hindsight, the main problem was probably one of going into the day depleted after an afternoon yesterday which took out more than seemed to be the case at the time) - an indicator of this was that it was well into the evening before any replaced fluids came out the other end (just as well I didn't have to do a drug test). Better to (re-) learn this this weekend than in something more important, but it's still disappointing to come out of today with no result. It could be warm in Perth (hopefully not as warm as this coming weekend, which is currently expected to have near-record temperatures for this time of year, around 30), and it certainly will be warm in Brazil (although probably not Canada).
The trip home was long, but I wasn't doing much of the driving (in contrast to the equivalent trip on the same weekend in 2007, which I did solo), just 250km or so between Renmark and Ouyen. There was a certain amount of history repeating itself on this one - Bruce drove a fair proportion of the first 2000km of one of my earlier new cars (the one I drowned in Kalumburu), and I returned the favour this time. Not sure how the quantity of dust the new car has acquired in its first week will go down.
I'm assuming this was primarily a question of getting my hydration badly wrong; first warm day of spring syndrome (and with hindsight, the main problem was probably one of going into the day depleted after an afternoon yesterday which took out more than seemed to be the case at the time) - an indicator of this was that it was well into the evening before any replaced fluids came out the other end (just as well I didn't have to do a drug test). Better to (re-) learn this this weekend than in something more important, but it's still disappointing to come out of today with no result. It could be warm in Perth (hopefully not as warm as this coming weekend, which is currently expected to have near-record temperatures for this time of year, around 30), and it certainly will be warm in Brazil (although probably not Canada).
The trip home was long, but I wasn't doing much of the driving (in contrast to the equivalent trip on the same weekend in 2007, which I did solo), just 250km or so between Renmark and Ouyen. There was a certain amount of history repeating itself on this one - Bruce drove a fair proportion of the first 2000km of one of my earlier new cars (the one I drowned in Kalumburu), and I returned the favour this time. Not sure how the quantity of dust the new car has acquired in its first week will go down.