Training Log Archive: the kempster

morning x-country practice circuits

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if yesterday was torture, then today was just prolonged torture. holy macaroni!! we had to hold the concentric (i think) part of the exercise for 10sec and then do the eccentric for 5sec. ahhhh!!!

just a quick run before things got crazy.

more abs. feel the burn!!! ahhh!!!

did ab ripping slashing torture movie thingymadooer in weightfit.

gotta love those night time runs!! just did the 5km-ish loop while star gazing. it was chillywilly but still a gorgeous night!

my dad found my heart rate monitor!!! hip hip hooray!!!!!! :) took molly out to the hill and i told her to walk because of her knee... of course she listened to her big sister...
super dee duper happy with the consistancy of the splits... which makes it sound like cake batter but oh well...
10:28 warmup
1:53/1:52
1:51/1:50
1:48/1:51
1:50/1:51
1:49/1:41
10:44 cooldown

chest, triceps, and legs

now that we have actual heat in our house i was legit sweating. kind of disappointing but at least now i won't have to wear my snowsuit to bed.

8 x 2min hard 2min easy. felt super dee duper speedy and i even kept up with marathon runner for the very last interval!! kinda... :P

this is for you john!! everything is for 1 minute apart from the wall sit which is 2min
-pushups (about 60)
-wall sit
-v-sit
-jump squats
-chinups (or just keep chin above the bar)
-front plank
-regular situps
-calf raises
-bicycle situp thingymadooers
-tricep pushups
-situps with feet in air
-lunges
-side plank each side

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oh my goodness gracious me! a real rest day!! :)

sooo... hudson highlander... my goodness gracious me. what an adventure. my legs were just kinda shot from 3 days of training like a frenchman but i still managed to make it up all the hills and not get totally lost from being so light-headed. the first section was just 6 controls over a very large distance. it took me 70:50 just to get to the trail run. then from there i just had to keep chugging along the trail alllll the way back to the map exchange which in itself took 39:51. from control 7 to 19 it was just a normal point to point course with lots and lots of climb. on the way to 8 i was looking 9 which made for a bit of a dilemna and then contouring to 17 and 18 would've been a tad trickier if Nickolay hadn't been there. The last map was definitely the hardest because i was sooo hungry and my legs felt soo tired. i basically just stumbled along through the woods trying to avoid climb and just thinking about the food at the end. I missed 22 by a couple contours and then 23 i decided to go to the bottom of the cliff even though the control was on a rock pile at the top of it... yeah oopsy daisies. after that though i survived and made it back on rather wobbly legs but at least i was all in tact. my mother will be happy i'm not missing any part of me :)

Highlander - Splits

saturday was absolutely gorgeous!!!! thierry set a 2-person relay course and I got to run with Matthieu which was definitely not a stacked team despite what others might say. There were 3 loops to start which everyone had to run and i did really well on all of them. legs were shaky but my orienteering was pretty good and the pressure of not letting down france kept me going up the hills. :P The last loop was only 800m and the two leading teams of Jean-Baptiste and Matthieu went out at the same time. It was so intense but Jean-Baptiste came in first with Matthieu just a little ways behind. The start was really well placed at the top of a hill so that the spectators could see runners coming in and it was easy to find for runners coming in :P we could also just listen for Ross cheering though :P definitely a very exciting race!!! :)
12:48 first lap
12:06 second lap
and then i forgot to take splits after that.

warmup led my François and running back to the parking lot.

in the afternoon we ran the men's woc short distance race. i totally blew up control 1 by wandering around in the green before Jon caught up to me. :S i was flustered going to 2 and was walking the fine line of messing that one up too but i actually made it there alright. after that it went great. the rocky ground was icky to run on and i bruised my ankle on the way to 11 :( it was definitely not a stellar preformance in woc but thierry sure did well!! it was pretty amazing to see him blast out of the woods and sprint down the "finish chute".

i have splits but 1-3 are consolidated because i was more worried about finding the controls than getting splits.

12:24
3:42
0:51
2:22
1:11
3:08
3:41
1:30
1:29
3:02
2:26
1:03
1:15

warmup to the start and cooldown back to the parking lot.