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Wednesday Dec 14, 2011 #
7 AM
Run 1:11:00 [3] 14.0 km (5:04 / km)
My Achilles has good days and bad days. This wasn't a good day.
Once it became apparent that it wasn't going to be a good day I planned a reasonably flat run, including my first post-return inspection of the Banyule Flats single track (still pretty muddy for this time of year) before heading up into Macleod. A fair to middling run if I could ignore the soreness.
Once it became apparent that it wasn't going to be a good day I planned a reasonably flat run, including my first post-return inspection of the Banyule Flats single track (still pretty muddy for this time of year) before heading up into Macleod. A fair to middling run if I could ignore the soreness.
7 PM
Run race ((street-O)) 39:15 [4] * 8.6 km (4:34 / km) +140m 4:13 / km
spiked:16/17c
Street-O at Belmore Parklands. Wasn't feeling too sparkling but led for the first 50 metres before Bruce took over. Such touch as I had with Bruce and Ian Davies disappeared when I once again ran into fence trouble (a gate I was expecting to be open wasn't, I confused it with one which wasn't supposed to be open but was, and that one dropped me into an area with no exit). This proved to be a point of controversy because it turned out the whole area was out of bounds anyway but that wasn't visible on Bruce's map (or mine) because of a dodgy photocopy.
On my own after that, plodding a bit but enjoying myself more than in the second half last week, and then got a big stitch halfway through. This is the first time it's happened to me in ages and I'm not sure why - perhaps it was the mere thought of tobacco smoke after reading the draft-for-review-and-reissue* Bureau policy on smoking in the workplace, which takes three pages to say that smoking is not allowed in the workplace. (In practice, in Australia smoking scientists are almost as hard to find as smoking orienteers, although I've seen a few in Europe).
The stitch limited my enjoyment and enthusiasm for the last half of the course, although I kept plugging away. Definitely sluggish this week, but then I'm not trying to reach a performance peak in December. Also took a fair bit less out of me than last Wednesday did - in conditions which were a good deal kinder. No Achilles issues tonight.
(* - I can only assume that there is a requirement that every policy be reviewed after X years, because smoking in the workplace has been banned on all Australian government premises for more than 20 years).
On my own after that, plodding a bit but enjoying myself more than in the second half last week, and then got a big stitch halfway through. This is the first time it's happened to me in ages and I'm not sure why - perhaps it was the mere thought of tobacco smoke after reading the draft-for-review-and-reissue* Bureau policy on smoking in the workplace, which takes three pages to say that smoking is not allowed in the workplace. (In practice, in Australia smoking scientists are almost as hard to find as smoking orienteers, although I've seen a few in Europe).
The stitch limited my enjoyment and enthusiasm for the last half of the course, although I kept plugging away. Definitely sluggish this week, but then I'm not trying to reach a performance peak in December. Also took a fair bit less out of me than last Wednesday did - in conditions which were a good deal kinder. No Achilles issues tonight.
(* - I can only assume that there is a requirement that every policy be reviewed after X years, because smoking in the workplace has been banned on all Australian government premises for more than 20 years).