Week 36 - Race Day & Rest Days
Running: Year to Date
Distance: 3,080.00 kms in 36 weeks at ave 85.5 kms ( down from 86.3 kms at week 34)
Last 2 weeks: 144.75 kms
Altitude: Garmin - 112,937 metres in 36 weeks at ave 3,137 metres ( down from 3,204 metres at week 34)
Strava: 115,106 metres
Last 2 weeks: 3,990 metres
When you do an ultra 12 hours night run in the middle of a fortnight, the stats are going to take a hit.
Taper & recovery are not my best attributes. I'm more a consistency person.
The fortnight had 4 total rest days, 3 by choice & one ( today) just tired. Yesterday's Parkrun showed I needed a complete nothing day, not even a short walk.
Last weekend, a night 12 hour event in the bush near Canberra on a mix of road, fire trail & technical single track. We competed on a 7.7 km loop with just over 200 metres of up hill each lap. Managed 8 laps, so just over 60 kms with 1600 metres of vert. With 4 solos on 9 laps, not that far from a solid middle of the pack result, but stopped with 40 minutes to go as the timing was only at half way & end of each lap. Taking around 100 minutes to do each lap nearing the end, another half lap to get an extra 3.8 kms & still having to get back wasn't worth the effort.
A very good night in the bush, really liked this one.
Couple of easy runs this week, but the fatigue is still there. Another easy week, not so much in distance, and I'll leave out an intensity. I ran Parkrun on Saturday morning, there was nothing in the tank.
I'll reassess my race plans for the last part of this year now. Hopefully a mixture of exciting Tassie runs & a couple of mainland events. All of these will be dependant on in-law family health conditions in Tassie. A sick & inactive lot down here.
Distance: 3,080.00 kms in 36 weeks at ave 85.5 kms ( down from 86.3 kms at week 34)
Last 2 weeks: 144.75 kms
Altitude: Garmin - 112,937 metres in 36 weeks at ave 3,137 metres ( down from 3,204 metres at week 34)
Strava: 115,106 metres
Last 2 weeks: 3,990 metres
When you do an ultra 12 hours night run in the middle of a fortnight, the stats are going to take a hit.
Taper & recovery are not my best attributes. I'm more a consistency person.
The fortnight had 4 total rest days, 3 by choice & one ( today) just tired. Yesterday's Parkrun showed I needed a complete nothing day, not even a short walk.
Last weekend, a night 12 hour event in the bush near Canberra on a mix of road, fire trail & technical single track. We competed on a 7.7 km loop with just over 200 metres of up hill each lap. Managed 8 laps, so just over 60 kms with 1600 metres of vert. With 4 solos on 9 laps, not that far from a solid middle of the pack result, but stopped with 40 minutes to go as the timing was only at half way & end of each lap. Taking around 100 minutes to do each lap nearing the end, another half lap to get an extra 3.8 kms & still having to get back wasn't worth the effort.
A very good night in the bush, really liked this one.
Couple of easy runs this week, but the fatigue is still there. Another easy week, not so much in distance, and I'll leave out an intensity. I ran Parkrun on Saturday morning, there was nothing in the tank.
I'll reassess my race plans for the last part of this year now. Hopefully a mixture of exciting Tassie runs & a couple of mainland events. All of these will be dependant on in-law family health conditions in Tassie. A sick & inactive lot down here.
posted by Two Fruits at
9:02 PM
2 Comments:
Great post - good running Steve. All the best with your training for the remainder of the year; and enjoy the races. Was the single track part on mountain bike path?
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Niffy Nev, At
September 10, 2018 at 12:06 PM
I think they made the single track through the bush. It will be a great mountain bike path. Great work to make the track, put tree branches on either side & then ribbons & arrows to mark the way in the dark. Organisers Pam, Peter & co did brilliant job.
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Two Fruits, At
September 12, 2018 at 9:35 PM
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