35km vs. 4km - heaven vs. hell.
Monday, 26. January 2009, 21:54:41
Today I did the last hard training of this period - yeah! It was for sure the hardest training since long time, even if 2x5x400m doesn't sound too bad... The reason: a fantastic day on the xc-skies yesterday, making 35Km and 850 m climbing in 3:15h. The weather was a dream - and the slopes freshly prepared, all you can wish for a perfect day on the skies. My course took me from St.Jacob im Walde to the Kreuz-Rabl-Hütte at Hochwechsel, from there on a 7,5Km round-course around the hill and then back to St.Jacob. It was a fantastic tour, but in the end my arms got really tired and hunger bigger for every minute, so I was pretty happy to get back to the area to start a big food-attack. Driving the 100 minutes back to Vienna was a challenge for the arms and the rest of the evening I spent eating and drinking, ending it in front of the telly with a box of chocolate chip ice-cream - I had the feeling I just couldn't get enough to eat;).
This morning the legs were pretty stiff, to be honest I felt like at least 90 years old when I finally got myself out of the bed. A good, strong coffee made me finally wake up, but I felt the load from yesterday throughout the whole day. Knowing what kind of training waiting for me made me look forward to it with lots of antipathy. I knew the legs were so heavy it would not be the fun it normally is. Ok, ok, I do know, that making such a long training the day before a track-training is not the smartest idea, but yesterday was just such a wonderful day and the long tour was a spontaneous decision.
Coming onto the track today, my appetite for a interval-training was about zero and after two times 400 m I thought about giving it a break.. But, I'm not being born a stubborn girl for nothing, so I told my self to go on and so I did. It was really hard and the fun factor was low (ok, not existing), but I was able to run the planned times (80") in a even pace, only varying with some tenths of a second and even speed up a bit more on the last two intervals (77"). Still I was really happy when the last interval was done! I invested some extra-time in the cool down and stretching afterwards and has been eating like a wolf this evening too. Except for the ice cream, I'll save that to the next emergency situation
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Tomorrow I'll fill the day with some 10h of work and then I'll go for some jogging, at least if I got enough energy left. From Wednesday till Sunday noon I have osteopathy course all day long, so training will be held on a minimum level. Time to be a brave student - and to let the body get some rest. From Monday on we will put in basic endurance training for some weeks and then it is soon time for a training camp in Portugal!
Here some pics from yesterday!
This morning the legs were pretty stiff, to be honest I felt like at least 90 years old when I finally got myself out of the bed. A good, strong coffee made me finally wake up, but I felt the load from yesterday throughout the whole day. Knowing what kind of training waiting for me made me look forward to it with lots of antipathy. I knew the legs were so heavy it would not be the fun it normally is. Ok, ok, I do know, that making such a long training the day before a track-training is not the smartest idea, but yesterday was just such a wonderful day and the long tour was a spontaneous decision.
Coming onto the track today, my appetite for a interval-training was about zero and after two times 400 m I thought about giving it a break.. But, I'm not being born a stubborn girl for nothing, so I told my self to go on and so I did. It was really hard and the fun factor was low (ok, not existing), but I was able to run the planned times (80") in a even pace, only varying with some tenths of a second and even speed up a bit more on the last two intervals (77"). Still I was really happy when the last interval was done! I invested some extra-time in the cool down and stretching afterwards and has been eating like a wolf this evening too. Except for the ice cream, I'll save that to the next emergency situation
.Tomorrow I'll fill the day with some 10h of work and then I'll go for some jogging, at least if I got enough energy left. From Wednesday till Sunday noon I have osteopathy course all day long, so training will be held on a minimum level. Time to be a brave student - and to let the body get some rest. From Monday on we will put in basic endurance training for some weeks and then it is soon time for a training camp in Portugal!
Here some pics from yesterday!
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