Training Log Archive: Bruce

Training event at St George's Lake in preparation for the NOL weekend next week.
Just worked on technique and flow rather than speed.

2 laps of the tan at easy pace (about 18 minutes per lap), chatting with the midday milers group.

8 x 500m at the tan, 3 min turnarounds.
Felt ordinary on the warm up, but I had some quite good speed today. Hard work, but good for me.
1.45 (missed the start of the 1st one)
1.31
1.34
1.31
1.32
1.32
1.33
1.31

Hilly run around Kew with Nicola, Dion and Torgeir.
Nicola said that she wanted some hills, but I'm not sure if the others were impressed.

Airlie Street 10 hills at tempo pace.
Tough session. Quite a steep hill x 10, with no recoveries at all - just continuously fast up and down. I felt ok for the first 7, but the last 3 were hard. I think I'm still recovering from the 7 wasp stings from Sunday.
They are still very irritating, and I'm not quite feeling 100% yet.

an extended warm down after the hilly tempo.

Monday night MFR run from Dion's, with Blair, Torgeir, Kirsten, Jasmine, Nicola, Luise, Marcus, Suse and Keith.
I felt very sluggish for the first 30 minutes, but got progressively better after that.

3hr Maxi Score event at Sailor's Diggings.
From the beginning it was always going to be possible to get them all. I'd planned a loop, but made sure that I headed off in the same direction as Blair so that it was at least interesting.
I navigated well under pressure and built a reasonable lead of around a minute in the first 30-40 minutes. Blair got back in front courtesy of a thicket infested creek crossing, however, it wasn't too concerning as I was feeling good, and there was a decisive route choice coming up.

Then as I ran to a control I noticed about 30-40 wasps around the stand. It was too late, and they were stinging me. I fled, throwing my map and hands around, but I got stung about 6 times on my head shoulders, neck and side. I lost my map and control card, but I wasn't going back to get them. Blair kindly let me run with him for the remainder of the course.
Without my map I suggested the alternative route to Blair (which he wasn't going to take), and that saved us a few mintues and a few dozen contours. I was able to run ok, but the stinging was quite painful, and still is annoying 24 hours later.

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