Training Log Archive: immy

I had several different options this morning: 1) orienteering at Duder's (which I have been to enough times, and it's quite an easy map); 2) Xterra race at Shakespear Reserve (which would have been great but kind of expensive) or 3) run with Alastair on the Okura Bush track. So option 3 it was :) Really glad I did this run, it was good training. I ran with Gene, Alastair, Duncan and Kate - we went from Haigh Access Rd to Stillwater and back.

The track was in a pretty shocking condition - so so muddy! Way worse than it has been before. And there is also some construction going on near the start. But other than that, the run was good. We started at a pace that was ok, but fast enough that I was worried I might not be able to keep it up the whole way... Luckily though it was a good pace and I was still feeling good at the end :) I ran a lot of it pretty hard though and beat my previous time, yay. I also used the trick of pushing harder when you start getting tired running up a hill - it seems counter-intuitive, but somehow works! I guess because then you reach the top sooner. But it's a tactic you can only use so many times I think...

The part at the Stillwater end was like a swamp, and I also went through the river up to my waist almost :S I never had to do that before.

C • that slight panic about the... 2

It would have been good to go for an afternoon run, but I was too busy with rehearsal and then went to the Michael Hill competition finals :) I really thought the guy who played the Prokofiev would have won, it was fantastic, but he came third! Well anyway, it was a pretty close contest. The Brahms was fantastic :) Didn't know the Bartok really at all so it was harder for me to appreciate.

Warm up for drills on the domain tracks.

Running drills with Mike in the domain. We had a line-making competition in the muddy ground :) I actually think Gene or Mike won, their lines were a bit more well defined than mine.

Did the massive circuit with Kate :) It's definitely easier than it used to be - still hard though! It's sort of as hard as you make it. This was the last week of the circuit - I think we may be starting up the Churchill Park sprint loops again soon... :S

To the hospital, I was a bit slow in the beginning so then I went pretty hard up the hill from the Strand :)

30 minutes warm up - about 20 by myself on the domain tracks and then with Gene, and then about 10 with the others.
15 minutes recovery jog between intervals (5 x 3min)
8 minutes warm down.

6 x 3 minute offroad intervals in the domain. Pretty hard work, especially when it became a bit too dark. There was a smaller group of us today - only Duncan, Ross, Gene, Kate, Toby and me. And we weren't all doing exactly the same thing. So it was basically just a lot of running around in the mud in the dark by myself :)

I still think I need to learn to push myself harder in these because I can jog quite comfortably afterwards, and the warm down also felt good.

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I was so tired this morning, I didn't go to the hospital! Wow. I feel a bit guilty... But we are supposed to take one half day of "self directed learning" each week so maybe that was it... But I did cycle in in the afternoon to meet with my supervisor for a presentation I'm giving on Friday, and then some teaching.

It was slow as there was a headwind :S

Felt strong cycling home, and the weather was nice :) Now time to put out controls for tonight's rogaine!

Went on a run past some of my controls for this evening's rogaine. I went through Kohi, Mission Bay and then as far as Paritai Dr and Ngapipi Rd. I love Paritai Drive. When I'm rich and famous I will buy a house there :)

Felt really good running tonight as well - pretty strong! It was good. Don't know if I could have kept that speed for 3 hours though...

No training tonight. Instead I spent about 4 hours checking control sites for tomorrow's street night rogaine, which I am setting. It was not made any easier by how dodgy the map was... in fact, half the time I was out there was spent making map changes! So very tired afterwards.

I hope everyone likes the rogaine, I've made it difficult - if anyone can get all the controls in 3 hours I will be amazed!

Queen's birthday day 3 at White's Line South. I'm actually pretty annoyed at myself taking another look at how I did... lost a couple of minutes on 5 and then a couple on 7!! And then another minute on the second to last control :( In between these parts I was running ok, but the mistakes just set me back so much :( Every day this weekend I have had a few mistakes like this - I need to work out how to eliminate them. I'm not really sure how it went so wrong at number 7 - I was looking around the wrong hill, and I knew it was wrong, but I ran along the line of hills and just couldn't see the reentrant I was looking for. Also, it wasn't quite how I expected in relation to the clearing.

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