Diary of a mini-taper week City2Surf 14km : Day 2 ; Keith in Bega 2 x 2000m
Lunch time jog of 25 minutes. Afternoon session of Malaga 2000m XC loop. Weather windy and cold, sunny, loads of snow this morning on surrounding hills and especially Mount Franklin.
The afternoon set: 2600m warm up, 5 x 100m strides, Malaga 2000m XC loop in 6:29 (using all the biggest hills on the circuits), 5500m warm down. Helen ran the loop in 9:07, her quickest since returning from Europe.
Hard to believe in previous years my quickest 2000m efforts have been all been slower than these very hilly loop efforts. Three obvious reasons. First I ran deep into June doing track work for the Australian Masters Athletics Championships in Darwin. Second I managed to keep the weight off over winter as a result I'm 2-3kg lighter than otherwise at this time of year. Third those long hill climbs up Col du Galibier, I haven't done those since 2011 or 2012, simply because of the Tour de France race route and the stages I made a visit to. Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees is another great climb but nothing like Galibier.
For the record, those two climbs up Galibier took 4 days to recover, benefit lasted around three weeks.
Keith in Bega 2 x 2000m 7:36 and 7:25. Similar warm up and warm down to myself. Very strong winds and cold there too.
The afternoon set: 2600m warm up, 5 x 100m strides, Malaga 2000m XC loop in 6:29 (using all the biggest hills on the circuits), 5500m warm down. Helen ran the loop in 9:07, her quickest since returning from Europe.
Hard to believe in previous years my quickest 2000m efforts have been all been slower than these very hilly loop efforts. Three obvious reasons. First I ran deep into June doing track work for the Australian Masters Athletics Championships in Darwin. Second I managed to keep the weight off over winter as a result I'm 2-3kg lighter than otherwise at this time of year. Third those long hill climbs up Col du Galibier, I haven't done those since 2011 or 2012, simply because of the Tour de France race route and the stages I made a visit to. Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees is another great climb but nothing like Galibier.
For the record, those two climbs up Galibier took 4 days to recover, benefit lasted around three weeks.
Keith in Bega 2 x 2000m 7:36 and 7:25. Similar warm up and warm down to myself. Very strong winds and cold there too.
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