Sunday, December 4, 2011

On the wagon....

...the body has finally been solid for the last 6 months and that's finally resulted in some decent running results. I took a really patient apporach since the summer and planned on a very short, but hopefully successful late season racing for crossy. it turned out I did just enough to win the BC masters in oct and about a month later the Canadian crossy champs.

Training lacked a ton of structure, but it was reletively consistent. I kept it simple with some classic sessions (egs 30-40min of hills, 8-10 x 3mins off 1min, 20-25 min hard tempos and 2 x 20mins off 5min good paced runs at just under threshold) mixed in with 100min and the odd 2 hr long runs. I was averaging about 120-130km, but only off 6 days per week of running.

I was pleasantly suprised with the BC cross results as I had run a low key XC race up at Whistler. I felt terrible there, but BCs felt really easy. At BCs I played it pretty patient and threw in a medium surge at around 5-6km (of an 8km race) and dropped Craig Odermatt. Considering how well Odie has been running this fall I was pleasantly happy.

At Canadians, I felt pretty confident. I'd done a few sessions with one of the athletes I've been coaching. He had no training partners after CIS champs and so we did a few session together. The key was I was running easy and I dropped him easily in the sessions. I knew he was in good shape so this was a nice confidence boost.

The day of the race it had been raining all night and morning and the course was pretty muddy. I've never been a mudder and figured my fitness might be offset by the mud.At Canadians there were a few questions marks (Grame Wilson and Steve Boyd), but after 1km I knew unless someone began to hammer early this was my race to lose. At around 2km Boyd threw in what felt like a pretty good surge and I answered it easily and then went past Steve. At that point things felt so easy that I just began to control the race in leading at times and follwoing when I wanted. By 6km it was just me and Odie once again and with about 1km to go I threw in one big surge up a hill and dropped Odie. From there it was just run relaxed to the end. It was some of the most fun I have had running in years...

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