Training Log Archive: BrandNewMeIn the 29 days ending Feb 29, 2016:
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Monday Feb 29, 2016 #
11 AM
Road running 1:04:00 [3] 7.4 mi (8:39 / mi)
Home from work via Corstorphine Hill.
Still got stomach cramps. You need to be a sensible grown up with ibuprofen, and eat proper meals. When will I ever learn that the pain from ibuprofen is usually worse than the pain I was originally trying to avoid.
Tight right calf, so I was trying to restrain myself pace-wise.
Played around with routegadget for the first time in ages, mainly as I wanted to find out from my GPS exactly where I went out of number 5 on Saturday night! O like a pro!
Still got stomach cramps. You need to be a sensible grown up with ibuprofen, and eat proper meals. When will I ever learn that the pain from ibuprofen is usually worse than the pain I was originally trying to avoid.
Tight right calf, so I was trying to restrain myself pace-wise.
Played around with routegadget for the first time in ages, mainly as I wanted to find out from my GPS exactly where I went out of number 5 on Saturday night! O like a pro!
Sunday Feb 28, 2016 #
12 PM
Off-road running 1:30:00 [3] 7.8 mi (11:32 / mi)
Got not a lot of sleep last night. ibuprofen-rot tummy cramps and screamingly sore legs from all the brambles last night. When you grow up and live in Scotland, you don't really think about brambles much, and how much it is worth navigating around them. I think I'll just not go to forests with brambles in the future.
So on the drive home we stopped at Sedbergh, and we ran up some hills. We ran all of the tops on the ridge to Calf hill. This was my first time in the Howgills, and it was super nice. The weather must have helped. The paths were a bit stoney on top, but you could run on the grass beside them. I sent GG and Jonny on by themselves as I wanted to run my own pace, and managed to run every step of the approx 800m climb as a result. Feeling ok now - shivers etc have gone. No calf ache so that is positive after such a big week for me.
Great weekend. In the manner if the Oscars, I'd like to dedicate my victory last night to GG, for driving me all the way there and back, and to the Nick and Nige team for supplying a burger and cuppa last night - a much more exciting prize than a buff!
So on the drive home we stopped at Sedbergh, and we ran up some hills. We ran all of the tops on the ridge to Calf hill. This was my first time in the Howgills, and it was super nice. The weather must have helped. The paths were a bit stoney on top, but you could run on the grass beside them. I sent GG and Jonny on by themselves as I wanted to run my own pace, and managed to run every step of the approx 800m climb as a result. Feeling ok now - shivers etc have gone. No calf ache so that is positive after such a big week for me.
Great weekend. In the manner if the Oscars, I'd like to dedicate my victory last night to GG, for driving me all the way there and back, and to the Nick and Nige team for supplying a burger and cuppa last night - a much more exciting prize than a buff!
Saturday Feb 27, 2016 #
12 PM
Off-road running 32:00 [3] 4.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
Run with GG on the hadrians wall footpath. I took a load of ibuprofen / paracetamol first thing and felt ok this morning, and felt good on this run, but the chills / fever set in again in the afternoon.
7 PM
Orienteering - race 1:06:00 [3] 7.4 mi (8:55 / mi)
British nights. No warm up as I felt so ill. I really must ask rheumatology if I ought to be racing when I have flu-like chills / aches / fever etc...
Started through some brambles to 1. Nice. Then to two it was a long path leg, then lots of little paths. I couldn't be bothered to navigate properly, and got predictably lost, but just as I was thinking that I ought to try to relocate, I find a control and it is mine. Bingo!
I took a ropey bearing to 3 and was too far right and hacked through more brambles to get to it. Lost time to 4 as I went off down the wrong path. 5 was good, but thrashed through yet more brambles. I got a bit lost midway to 6, but picked myself up and didn't drop too much time. 7, 8, 9, easy, but to 10 I thought there would be a path into the field and there wasn't, so struggled over a wall and 2 fences, dropping my compass here. Bugger. Stopped and had a look but couldn't find it. Bugger.
11 was easy, slight miss at 12, really concentrating to get the right path to 13 as if I got lost I was going to struggle to relocate. The mid section of 14 was tricky without a compass, as was the mid section to 18. A bit of a hole in the map at 21 didn't help, and I didn't know what I was looking for. Last 2 were tricky too.
Win. Nice. Didn't feel too bad when running.
http://www.leioc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/index.php#1...
Started through some brambles to 1. Nice. Then to two it was a long path leg, then lots of little paths. I couldn't be bothered to navigate properly, and got predictably lost, but just as I was thinking that I ought to try to relocate, I find a control and it is mine. Bingo!
I took a ropey bearing to 3 and was too far right and hacked through more brambles to get to it. Lost time to 4 as I went off down the wrong path. 5 was good, but thrashed through yet more brambles. I got a bit lost midway to 6, but picked myself up and didn't drop too much time. 7, 8, 9, easy, but to 10 I thought there would be a path into the field and there wasn't, so struggled over a wall and 2 fences, dropping my compass here. Bugger. Stopped and had a look but couldn't find it. Bugger.
11 was easy, slight miss at 12, really concentrating to get the right path to 13 as if I got lost I was going to struggle to relocate. The mid section of 14 was tricky without a compass, as was the mid section to 18. A bit of a hole in the map at 21 didn't help, and I didn't know what I was looking for. Last 2 were tricky too.
Win. Nice. Didn't feel too bad when running.
http://www.leioc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/index.php#1...
Off-road running 20:00 [3] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Long warm down to 10 to hunt for my compass. No luck. Bummer.
Friday Feb 26, 2016 #
Note
(rest day)
Chills / aches / fever tonight. Early night.
Thursday Feb 25, 2016 #
5 PM
Road running 59:51 [3] 8.0 mi (7:29 / mi)
I worked through lunch interviewing people for temp jobs. Then we had the fun of our very first 'SHiP' training. SHiP stands for 'shelter in place' and it is like a fire drill, but we have to imagine there is a sniper - yes, a sniper! - in the office, and follow our fire marshalls to the safety of ... one of the larger (glass windowed) offices. What a pile of bollox. We all heartily agreed that should there be a sniper in the office, we'd be hopping out of the window and running for our lives, not following the instruction of a jobsworth in high vis - so patronising but the powers that be can tick that off the risk management list now.
So, after being robbed of my lunchtime running opportunities I left a bit early and went running from work. 8 mile tempo. Trying to negative split as I used to, and very worried I might die at any point. I was pretty pleased with 59:51. Mile splits:
7:50, 7:39, 7:31, 7:38. 30:38
7:27, 7:23, 7:22, 7:02. 29:14
Not as bad as I expected but a long way off my pb of 53! I felt better today. Head clearer and legs more lively, but still v nauseous.
So, after being robbed of my lunchtime running opportunities I left a bit early and went running from work. 8 mile tempo. Trying to negative split as I used to, and very worried I might die at any point. I was pretty pleased with 59:51. Mile splits:
7:50, 7:39, 7:31, 7:38. 30:38
7:27, 7:23, 7:22, 7:02. 29:14
Not as bad as I expected but a long way off my pb of 53! I felt better today. Head clearer and legs more lively, but still v nauseous.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016 #
1 PM
Road running 37:25 [3] 4.8 mi (7:48 / mi)
Felt horrific. I am trying to run myself to feeling less exhausted.
5 PM
Road running 29:16 [3] 3.8 mi (7:42 / mi)
In a huff, so road running to cheer myself up. Felt marginally better than lunchtime. It couldn't have got worse.
Tuesday Feb 23, 2016 #
5 PM
Road running 1:02:00 [3] 7.6 mi (8:09 / mi)
Home via Corstorphine hill. Felt nauseous and exhausted and :-( all day. Went home, showered, put the kids to bed then bed at 8:30. Feeling too ill and tired to eat dinner anyway.
Monday Feb 22, 2016 #
2 PM
Trail running 1:10:00 [3] 7.5 mi (9:20 / mi)
It seemed fitting that my pre-british night panic training should include a jog to the engravers to pick up the trophy and back. So through Holyrood park via the crags, then down Easter road to leith links, then back with the trophy in my rucksack, via the top of Arthur's seat to school to get the kids.
Felt terrible, underpowered, and had to walk the last few 100m to the top on the way back. My not v grippy trainers weren't helping. Nice day, and good to get out after a stressful morning.
Garmin not working, so guessing.
Felt terrible, underpowered, and had to walk the last few 100m to the top on the way back. My not v grippy trainers weren't helping. Nice day, and good to get out after a stressful morning.
Garmin not working, so guessing.
Sunday Feb 21, 2016 #
Off-road running 5:00 [3] 0.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
Jog to start
Orienteering - race 41:00 [3] 3.3 mi (12:25 / mi)
Loc event. Haverthwaite. Green course. Still single-mumming, so I was leaving the kids in the van with a DVD and wanted to be out and back quick.
I started 15 mins after first start, so had a line of 15 oldies to reel in. I got the first three by number 1, and the rest by number 3. Then I got cocky, and didn't look at the map, and blundered around in the general direction, give or take 90 degrees. Then when I was close by I didn't know it so was still v crap. 5 mins dropped here. Then was equally crap to the next one. It was a short leg, so after taking an equally crap direction out if the control, was not as far off as last time, and managed to only drop 3 mins. Then nailed the next few, then dropped about 30 secs to the 2nd last one, 45 to the last control and 30 secs to the finish, losing myself the lead in the process. Totally mince!
I started 15 mins after first start, so had a line of 15 oldies to reel in. I got the first three by number 1, and the rest by number 3. Then I got cocky, and didn't look at the map, and blundered around in the general direction, give or take 90 degrees. Then when I was close by I didn't know it so was still v crap. 5 mins dropped here. Then was equally crap to the next one. It was a short leg, so after taking an equally crap direction out if the control, was not as far off as last time, and managed to only drop 3 mins. Then nailed the next few, then dropped about 30 secs to the 2nd last one, 45 to the last control and 30 secs to the finish, losing myself the lead in the process. Totally mince!
Orienteering - race 20:00 [3] 1.0 mi (20:00 / mi)
White course with Lucy. We walked the hills (well she walked and I hauled her) walked the flat unless she could see the control in which case she pegged it, then she insisted I held her hand as she threw herself at breakneck speed down the hills. Scary stuff!
Friday Feb 19, 2016 #
12 PM
Off-road running 1:42:47 [3] 9.3 mi (11:03 / mi)
Morning spent at the Halifax YMCA roller disco with james and 5 kids. This was tricky. I haven't been rollering for many moons, but this didn't stop Lucy 'bambi' ward wrapping both of her arms around one of mine and swinging from it, all the time. This was v tiresome, and also greatly affected my ability to stage upright. I only fell over once so heavily I thought I had broken bones (wrist). By the end I was cocky enough to skate across the caff holding a milkshake. This could have been messy. £3 / person well spent. Cheap fun in Yorkshire.
After we got back I was so full of 50p mix I had to go running. Set off due south from James's, up the other side, then right, down to the valley inbetween cragg vale and mytholmroyd, then up to stoodly pike. There were lots of footpaths on the map (that I hadn't brought with me) but the farmers had managed to remove all of the signs, so lots of pissing about in the tussocks, until the pike hove into view and I started to cheer up again.
Round the pike, and back the quickest route via mytholmroyd and the canal. I bonked a bit on the way out, so I was doing no extra mileage on the way home.
After we got back I was so full of 50p mix I had to go running. Set off due south from James's, up the other side, then right, down to the valley inbetween cragg vale and mytholmroyd, then up to stoodly pike. There were lots of footpaths on the map (that I hadn't brought with me) but the farmers had managed to remove all of the signs, so lots of pissing about in the tussocks, until the pike hove into view and I started to cheer up again.
Round the pike, and back the quickest route via mytholmroyd and the canal. I bonked a bit on the way out, so I was doing no extra mileage on the way home.
Wednesday Feb 17, 2016 #
4 PM
Road running 35:10 [3] 4.1 mi (8:35 / mi)
Single parenting all day, but wanted to go running, so I persuaded the kids to go for a bike ride around the meadows. They did 2 laps, and with Lucy that was really pushing it. I told her if I caught her I got to kiss her, and that kept her moving. Finished the 2nd lap to be called a loser poopy-bum by my training partners, which I can quite confidently say is a first.
Tuesday Feb 16, 2016 #
Note
Rheumatology this afternoon who told me the sporadic bouts of flu-like symptoms I have had for the past 18months+ is undifferentiated connective tissue disorder with 2ndary raynauds.
Connective tissue disorder is where the white blood cells start attacking healthy tissue. Undifferentiated means that it is not a specific CTD like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis etc. 2ndary raynauds means that it is making my raynauds worse. Good news - it is unlikely to turn nasty and start attacking my organs etc. Bad news, there is not much in the way of treatment, so unless I want to go on antimalarials (not right now) I will have to put up with regular bouts of shitty, flu-like symptoms. Nice to know I have not just been imagining things. More tests next week.
Connective tissue disorder is where the white blood cells start attacking healthy tissue. Undifferentiated means that it is not a specific CTD like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis etc. 2ndary raynauds means that it is making my raynauds worse. Good news - it is unlikely to turn nasty and start attacking my organs etc. Bad news, there is not much in the way of treatment, so unless I want to go on antimalarials (not right now) I will have to put up with regular bouts of shitty, flu-like symptoms. Nice to know I have not just been imagining things. More tests next week.
Monday Feb 15, 2016 #
Note
All day sledging, and a bit of XC skiing. Massive fun! The boy had a bad XC skiing fall though and hurt his arm. I am a bit concerned that we are going to have to take a trip to sick kids if it is no better when we get home tomorrow...
Sunday Feb 14, 2016 #
Note
1:30 hours solid sledging. V steep hill. Damage was one broken sledge, and a whacked arm. Ouchy!
3 PM
Off-road running 1:05:41 [3] 6.1 mi (10:46 / mi)
On a jaunt round the wildcat trail at Newtonmore, with Fran... And our 64 year old mother. She kept up disconcertainly well for the first bit, but we managed to pull away and drop her after a bit. Phew.
The chat was great. Fran and I were chatting about not seeing any wildcats, and mum kept saying that she didn't think this was their natural habitat. "They're plastic mum!" We kept yelling, but she's a bit deaf, and kept going on and on about how human tracks would put them off, and they tended to hide, and had we seen any cat tracks near by then? They're plastic mum! Newtonmore has lots of plastic wildcats hidden around it. PLASTIC, mum!!! She just wasn't getting it. Fran escorted mum home after the first 3 miles, and I headed on alone. Lots of side winds and blizzards. Fun.
The chat was great. Fran and I were chatting about not seeing any wildcats, and mum kept saying that she didn't think this was their natural habitat. "They're plastic mum!" We kept yelling, but she's a bit deaf, and kept going on and on about how human tracks would put them off, and they tended to hide, and had we seen any cat tracks near by then? They're plastic mum! Newtonmore has lots of plastic wildcats hidden around it. PLASTIC, mum!!! She just wasn't getting it. Fran escorted mum home after the first 3 miles, and I headed on alone. Lots of side winds and blizzards. Fun.
Saturday Feb 13, 2016 #
5 PM
Off-road running 35:49 [3] 3.4 mi (10:32 / mi)
Staying at treetops in Newtonmore, which unsurprisingly had an o map so I went out, even though I had no intention if doing so. Still feeling shitty.
I am thinking of not training until after the summer. Not running at all out with (fun) races. My theory is that when I had about 10 months totally off running when I had each of the kids, I was injury free for ages afterwards. It might be interesting. Take the last year of each orienteering age class totally off training, so your body can start the next year fresh.
I am thinking of not training until after the summer. Not running at all out with (fun) races. My theory is that when I had about 10 months totally off running when I had each of the kids, I was injury free for ages afterwards. It might be interesting. Take the last year of each orienteering age class totally off training, so your body can start the next year fresh.
Thursday Feb 11, 2016 #
Note
(sick)
Still ill. Maybe try jogging tomorrow. Appointment next week to try to get some answers.
Monday Feb 8, 2016 #
Note
(rest day)
Usual - chills, aches, pains, rash, tired. Blah, blah, blah. It looks like the latest blood tests I did might come up with some answers for this weird illness that I seem to get every few weeks.
Sunday Feb 7, 2016 #
Note
Supported the family at the scottish sprint champs. I was going to run later, but got surprisingly cold and wet running the kids start, and had re-heating probs which left me knackered. So I went home and recovered with lots of wine, a blanket and my jigsaw. 38 going on 98.
Saturday Feb 6, 2016 #
Note
The results have me down as running W35. It is the same course, but I did actually specifically enter W21. Is being young such a handicap?
6 PM
Road running 10:00 [3] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
slept:8.5
Warm down / up
Orienteering - race 41:34 [3]
Scottish night champs
Staggering around the heathery pentlands / bonaly area. I was staggering in an accurate direction, and fluked the more bingo-ish controls fairly successfully, except 7 (did the ride leading to the control really exist?) and 8 (still confused about that one!) but I think everyone was thrown by those two. Found myself in a Fraser - Paddy sandwich in the results -satisfying.
Staggering around the heathery pentlands / bonaly area. I was staggering in an accurate direction, and fluked the more bingo-ish controls fairly successfully, except 7 (did the ride leading to the control really exist?) and 8 (still confused about that one!) but I think everyone was thrown by those two. Found myself in a Fraser - Paddy sandwich in the results -satisfying.
Friday Feb 5, 2016 #
Note
The gp called me back in after some abnormal blood test results. I dutifully make an appointment and turn up with tired bored kids in tow, to see a locum who hasn't fully qualified, and can't interpret the results at all. Erm, I'll have to get back to you on that, he tells me. He'll look into it over the weekend and give me a ring. Google, I presume.
7 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
(rest day)
I could do with working out how to fix the gears so I can swap from big front chain ring to small front chain ring again. There is presumably a part that I am supposed to have been oiling...
C • bike 5
Thursday Feb 4, 2016 #
8 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
Van in for its mot. Bike problems with gears, breaks, and my quads, but apart from that, ok.
I want to get back into this. I think it helps stretch my muscles a bit and helps my body tolerate running. If my internal thermostat can cope, and I can keep my Reynauds under control without leaving me exhausted, I'll keep it up.
I want to get back into this. I think it helps stretch my muscles a bit and helps my body tolerate running. If my internal thermostat can cope, and I can keep my Reynauds under control without leaving me exhausted, I'll keep it up.
5 PM
Trail running 50:00 [3] 6.0 mi (8:20 / mi)
The plan said 6 miles easy. I had to work through lunch, and knew that if I went home I would never get out of the house as I am a bit tired, so I ran from work before cycling home. HW loop avoiding the water feature. Feeling better than the past 2 days.
Scottish water seem to be tarmacking the canal path from HW probably all the way to Ratho. This is good. At least I have a chance of getting near my 8 and 10 mile tempo run times again.
Scottish water seem to be tarmacking the canal path from HW probably all the way to Ratho. This is good. At least I have a chance of getting near my 8 and 10 mile tempo run times again.
Wednesday Feb 3, 2016 #
1 PM
Road running 6:02 [3] 0.65 mi (9:17 / mi)
Warm up
Drills 10:00 [3]
Trying to get some energy into my legs. I feel the improvement in my back from the yoga.
Intervals - long endurance 34:44 [3] 4.08 mi (8:31 / mi)
3 x 4mins on, 4 mins off, then warm down included.
Felt shocking again. Didn't even get 1k in the reps I don't think. I knew I was going to feel shit, but sometimes you have to force yourself out. Weigh up why you feel shit (overweight, unfit, doing training and my body is not used to that, lacking in sleep, carryinging a slight injury to my r foot, still a bit wiped out from last weeks sickness) and divide them into reasons why running will make things better (unfitness, overweightness, getting my body used to training) and why it will make things worse (lacking in sleep, carryinging a slight injury to my r foot, still a bit wiped out from last weeks sickness). Forcing myself to go running wins. Foot was fine running, but mid afternoon walk to the printer is tricky.
Felt shocking again. Didn't even get 1k in the reps I don't think. I knew I was going to feel shit, but sometimes you have to force yourself out. Weigh up why you feel shit (overweight, unfit, doing training and my body is not used to that, lacking in sleep, carryinging a slight injury to my r foot, still a bit wiped out from last weeks sickness) and divide them into reasons why running will make things better (unfitness, overweightness, getting my body used to training) and why it will make things worse (lacking in sleep, carryinging a slight injury to my r foot, still a bit wiped out from last weeks sickness). Forcing myself to go running wins. Foot was fine running, but mid afternoon walk to the printer is tricky.
Tuesday Feb 2, 2016 #
1 PM
Trail running 42:00 [3] 5.3 mi (7:55 / mi)
Felt so rubbish. So unfit. Same route as thursday, as I was curious to see how deep the water was. Mid thigh now. Deep enough to need to take my ipod out of my shorts pocket, not so deep that I get wet pants. I am (optimistically) starting a new training plan, while pessimistically thinking my body will give up by the weekend...
Monday Feb 1, 2016 #
Note
Robin tells me my si card was faulty at the big weekend - the bleep was broken. Do I get reinstated? Ray seems to think so, but he just wants to beat me officially!
I think more of a problem with si air is that it has (I believe) lots of different sensitivity settings. When we used it 2 years ago in perth at the scottish mixed sprint relay practice, you could punch about a metre away. The settings must have been much more sensitive at the big weekend, as I must have got pretty damn close, if not touched, each control. So we need consistent settings, and full details of the sensitivity setting at each event (which I imagine robin provided at the big weekend - I am terrible for just skim reading details). Or i need to check for beep / flash more often, but that is just tedious.
I think more of a problem with si air is that it has (I believe) lots of different sensitivity settings. When we used it 2 years ago in perth at the scottish mixed sprint relay practice, you could punch about a metre away. The settings must have been much more sensitive at the big weekend, as I must have got pretty damn close, if not touched, each control. So we need consistent settings, and full details of the sensitivity setting at each event (which I imagine robin provided at the big weekend - I am terrible for just skim reading details). Or i need to check for beep / flash more often, but that is just tedious.
C • SI AIR 21
Physio - general S&C 10:00 [3]
Yoga with Rodney. The runners session. Short on time.
8 PM
Road running 47:31 [3] 5.9 mi (8:03 / mi)
Through pollock, anticlockwise around queens drive, then up the royal mile to the castle doors, then back through the meadows. Edinburgh is one cool city.