Training Log: Frostbite

toddle round the park in the sunshine.

7 Arches. Feeling a bit sore from chasing Jase and Charlie on Sunday, and feeling a bit slow but kept moving fairly well.

Drier and warmer.

Long Distance, Lingmoor. Much happier today. I felt I ran pretty well, just one poor leg #5 where I took the path route but got a poor line trying to find the path in the first place, then when I left the path I got a little too low and banana'd and hesitated into the control - maybe a minute lost over the whole leg. I got the right route I think on #9, up the big hill to the path then an easy line into the control, better than trying to cross the very steep slope with ravines that was on the straight line. Jase nearly caught me 4 mins at #8 but I beat him to #9 because he went across the slope. At #10 Jase and Charlie (8 mins) were right behind me but I held them off until #13. After that I was desperately hanging on to the back of them, getting dropped on the uphills and chasing them down on the downhills. I finished 20 seconds behind Charlie and 12 behind Jase. I gained 5 places from #10 to the fniish, but I would like to think I would have gained places here anyway without any significant climbs.

9 minutes down on Graham Patten, 8 on Charlie and Quentin. Much better than yesterday.

Middle Distance, Graythwaite East. I should have really enjoyed this but somehow managed not to. Felt that I was struggling physically right from the start, made a couple of significant errors one of which was significantly stupid, never really got used to the map or the ridiculous scale (1:7500). Result miles down, 10 minutes behind Quentin.