2/24/2010

Rest of Camp and Hatley 8k

The rest of camp was rough but it went well. Thursday was an uber day starting with a 5k pool swim with a main set of 10x400; followed by a hard run interval workout with 3x2.1k and 5x2min hill repeats best average. I am excited my tempo running is getting faster holding around 5:15per mile. After those two sessions we had a bit of a break before a 90minute trainer session with a fast run off the bike. Friday being pretty tired we hit the pool for another good swim session and then we headed out with Brent McMahon for a 4hour bike workout. Saturday involved a run session at Elk Lake and a Recovery swim. By this point in the week i was pretty tired but i knew we had one last hard 8k race left. The race went well, it was super hilly and off road at Hatley Castle. I was thinking of the race as another chance for tempo work since walking was a bit of a challenge and stairs were extremely difficult to walk up. The race was well known in the area for being super hard and hilly. I ran in a small group with Erik Findlay, Nick Walker, Shawn Nelson with 2 other Nice Kenyan runners off the front. At about 5k i decided i wanted to push the pace and try and catch the second place runner as we were closing the distance down. Needless to say my fatigue legs caught up with me with about a mile from the finish and i ended up coming 5th not being able to sprint when Erik and Nick made there moves. I was super excited to race this well as the leader was roughly a minute up the road and i knew i could have been up there if i didn't have the lingering fatigue. Mags through down a great race winning it and Dan Smith had a great run as well. After the race it was one last ride along the water before packing up. I want to thank Doug and Cathy Noel for hosting me in Victoria while i was in town!
So the biggest week of the year was logged, I am looking forward to another good week and a 10k run race on the weekend. Now its time for some Carley time, and some how i need to make up for missing Valentines Day!












3 comments:

Sean Hill said...

Good to hear camp went well. awesome pics too. hope you learnt lots to put off onto me :P

Up and Comer Triathlete said...

I don't see how you are doing 5:15 pace on your tempo runs, and in the race you barely broke 5:30 pace.

You should not be training faster than you are racing...

Brent Poulsen said...

UP and Comer, thanks for the message. After a 30hour training week and alot of testing i was pretty smoked therefore it was harder to run. Hadtley race had alot of hard sustained climbs for example some of our miles were near 5minutes and some were close to 6per mile. There was also some tricky technical running sessions through the forest. The race was only a training race, when i run tempo efforts i usually go by heart rate or goal pace.
Hope this answers your questions. Best Regards,
Brent