Training Log Archive: Joshosh

Event: Southeast Urban Series, Dungarvan
 

Spent the morning coaching the Juniors with some sprint courses with artificial barriers around Dungarvan town centre and then a forked mass start sprint relay for the older ones.

Warm up with zacosh out along the greenway a bit in the sun

Nice sunny start box but had to stand around and wait since there wasnt enough maps. Took the road route to #1 to avoid any potentially bad running along the beach, hurdled the fence (my international 3000mSC pedigree really shining through here). Smooth through 2-3-4-5. Picked a poor route to #6 running ~100m extra, just couldnt decide what the best one was so picked a smooth line. Good through 9-10-11-12-13. But coming to 13 I started trying to decide if the wall by 16 was passable or not and then proceeded to run from 13-15 and not visit 14 at all, looks like it wouldve added maybe 50seconds to my time at the end. No issues through 17-18-F.

Speed was good (only 1 kilometer split was outside 4min/km) and for the most part I picked what I saw as good routes, just a really stupid mistake which gifted Ruairi the win in 30:20 (I wouldve been sub 29 if I had done it right.....which I didnt). The kid is moving well but I'm an unhappy camper with myself for being a moron

No time for a cool down as I had to find a lift back to the houses as the gang who brought me left without me.........Then grub and set up for a talk to the juniors on sprint technique and my training and race prep.