Training Log Archive: Useless Fool

On ice track at our lake.

With Rio, some very fast paced pull training and normal skiing with Rio. Yesterday's hill training felt on my legs.

No luck with Zegama Aizkorri draw.
8800 applied, 250 got in.

No time for training, went directly from work to pack and travelled 3 hours to country side.

Took to much of a "easy" paced sections while waiting boys in some occasions, it shows on HR.

These should be more on zone 2-4.

It would be quite easy to add another +300m and still stay in reasonable HR levels.

Travelling to Hamburg for a meeting and back to Helsinki during the same day, no time for training.

Alarm went off 0545, already 15 minutes later than originally scheduled.
Went to bed late, too late as usual.
Felt bit tired in the morning and hugging morning coffee cup offered some comfort.
Filled it few times, few times too much.

Plan was to jog as a warm-up for 30 minutes.
It was corrupted by bad planning on Monday and by previously mentioned issues.
Jog was 8 minutes 7 seconds long.
Man, that must been a worse warm up before track training session, ever.

Anyway, hamstrings and legs were still sleeping but decided to jog another km on track.
Some muscular warm up and 4x50m with easy, relaxed faster paced running.
Plan was to run 6x1000m @ 4:00min/km pace so I took 2 calibration laps, aiming for 48 seconds per lap.
Really didn’t feel too confident after last times track session where legs were something between spaghetti and orange marmelade.
46,8 & 44,9 – bummer… …odd feeling, felt that legs we not working but running was easy.

With 2min recovery between each 1000m,
Lap times below.

46,4, 46,5, 46,3, 47,6, 48,5 (3:55,3)

44,9, 48,7, 47,6, 46,8 – GREAT, Retard cannot count!! (3:08,0)

45,4, 48,5, 47,8, 46,4, 47,5 (3:55,6)

45,1, 48,0, 48,7, 46,8, 48,0 (3:56,5)

45,7, 47,0, 46,8, 47,7, 47,0 (3:54,2)

45,5, 45,6, 46,1, 44,9, 41,7 (3:43,8) <-- Storm warning!

To be honest, last 200m really felt like running.
The work done in Hipko and in Skimo training has brought a lot of strength to my legs.
This was the first time when I really felt it while running.

It motivates. Motivation is nothing without consistent action.

Edit, added hr-data, seems that last km was not measured correct. :P

No time to go to Hipko due the SUDDENLY changed plans.............
So I did what I could of the program at home and some additionals in top of that. Really starting to be fed up with these "compromises" when the pattern is always the same.

- Agree to do something, like sauna together in the evening.
- Agree to adjust training / work schedule later.
- Go bed late.
- Sleep longer.
- Go to work later.
- Something comes up.
- Training cancelled or altered to be somekind of halfwit turf crawling in nearby bush.
- Be happy and shut up.

No more compromises.

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