Training Log Archive: BrandNewMeIn the 31 days ending Mar 31, 2018:
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Saturday Mar 31, 2018 #
2 PM
Orienteering - race 32:40 [3] 2.96 mi (11:02 / mi)
JK middle. Old ladies. Won. Scrappy in places (2, 12, 7, 17) but ok. Exhausted at the finish, esp the run in. Must have been pushing hard.
Friday Mar 30, 2018 #
3 PM
Orienteering - race 12:40 [3] 2.0 mi (6:20 / mi)
JK sprint. Old ladies. Won. There were four controls where I didn’t get the fastest time - I was 1 second off it - then there was the run in where I dropped 5 seconds. Same old same old. Ray won though and the kids did ok so big smiles all around.
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018 #
6 PM
Trail running 1:35:09 [3] 10.63 mi (8:57 / mi)
Work to trotettes (Shannon) then trotettes (w craiglockhart, loop around the hermitage, e craiglockhart and back to Shandon) alingvthe canal back to work, pick up my bag and home. Legs a bit ouchy. Quite a lot of muddy wet running.
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018 #
7 PM
Intervals - long endurance 56:02 [3] 5.3 mi (10:34 / mi)
CAAC training. Trying to do a track session on a cold night without inflaming any of my niggles sounds a bit unlikely, but I managed it. 6 x 800 very steady indeed (3:10-ish). Niggle of the day has been patella tendonitis, to add to the Achilles pain, tight calf and questionable hamstring. I’m sure they are all just pre-JK psychosomatic symptoms though - plough on through!
Monday Mar 26, 2018 #
6 AM
Road running 30:47 [3] 3.7 mi (8:19 / mi)
Morning run down Preistfield Road, through the industrial estate and back up the innocent railway to co-op to but some packed lunch stuff. Alas bought too much to be able to run back.
12 PM
Trail running 43:50 [3] 5.26 mi (8:20 / mi)
To Stocksbridge along the water of Leith to get some paint samples. The waterside path was shut in two places (for no obvious reason) and required very hilly diversions.
Saturday Mar 24, 2018 #
6 AM
Road running 28:29 [3] 3.3 mi (8:38 / mi)
Morning meadows prior to a weekend of wedding and no fun-looking orienteering
Thursday Mar 22, 2018 #
Road running 18:00 [3] 2.0 mi (9:00 / mi)
Trying out Achilles for niggles
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018 #
7 PM
Intervals - long endurance 50:00 [3] 5.33 mi (9:23 / mi)
CAAC reps. 4 x 4mins. Got about 1050m each time so pleased. Felt good. Right Achilles very very slightly unhappy.
Monday Mar 19, 2018 #
6 PM
Trail running 1:27:22 [3] 10.21 mi (8:33 / mi)
Thought I ought to get some distance in, as I have entered a few fell races (ochils 2000, Lairaig Ghru, Beinn Resipole). Meadows, Blackford, around Braids and Home. Nice, but surprisingly cold after the sunset. My hands were frozen, even in gloves. DOMS. I knew it was coming. That was such a DOMS Hill race.
Sunday Mar 18, 2018 #
Note
Busy, snow, tired, DOMS blah, blah, blah.
Saturday Mar 17, 2018 #
3 PM
XC / road / hill race 26:46 [3] 1.64 mi (16:19 / mi) +410m 9:11 / mi
Chapelgill Hill race. Quads dead from the off, so I was glad that it was straight into walking up a steep hill. Straight up then down. I was lame going downhill (John Tullie beat me here) but 5th overall so better than expected. Brutally cold wind and blizzard. Mmm.
Trail running 23:58 [3] 2.4 mi (9:59 / mi)
Warm down.
Friday Mar 16, 2018 #
2 PM
Trail running 44:57 [3]
Mortonhall and Braids easy
Thursday Mar 15, 2018 #
8 AM
Road running 15:00 [3] 1.8 mi (8:20 / mi)
Jog to work
5 PM
Road running 29:50 [3] 4.37 mi (6:50 / mi)
Trotter training time trial from over a year ago. I have got faster since then. Zizzi, aqueduct, back to zizzi.
Road running 16:00 [3] 1.8 mi (8:53 / mi)
Stagger home after.
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018 #
7 PM
Trail running 53:49 [3] 5.92 mi (9:05 / mi)
To Jules’s and over the Braids with Trotettes.
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018 #
1 PM
Road running 14:42 [3] 1.73 mi (8:30 / mi)
I was going to go to reps in Inverleith Park, but a work meeting over ran. Solo reps in the meadows and I felt so dizzy I nearly fainted. So jacked.
6 PM
Orienteering - race 41:34 [3] 4.5 mi (9:14 / mi)
Felt better later and jogged home through the meadows and over the crags.
Monday Mar 12, 2018 #
5 PM
Trail running 50:35 [3] 5.67 mi (8:55 / mi)
Braids and Blackford mooch. Easy. Felt good.
Sunday Mar 11, 2018 #
Orienteering - race 49:30 [3] 4.2 mi (11:47 / mi)
Compass sport cup. Blue women. Beecraigs.
Beecraigs is somewhere you only really go to under duress. It’s not great. I have had problems with my left foot and took some ibuprofen and whacked some gel on. I don’t know if this is the cause, but I felt really sick. Empty legs. The forest was still snowy, so was tiring, so I ground it out with a few wobbles.
Not feeling great, but some pleasing results for the Ward family. Ray won yesterday, and caught Jase in the fell race section today, and chaperoned himaround the rest of the course. Lucy seems to be getting the hang of it and Laurence did his first orange today which he said was much more interesting than whites and yellows.
Routegadget:
https://routegadget.fvo.org.uk/rg2/#52&course=...
Beecraigs is somewhere you only really go to under duress. It’s not great. I have had problems with my left foot and took some ibuprofen and whacked some gel on. I don’t know if this is the cause, but I felt really sick. Empty legs. The forest was still snowy, so was tiring, so I ground it out with a few wobbles.
Not feeling great, but some pleasing results for the Ward family. Ray won yesterday, and caught Jase in the fell race section today, and chaperoned himaround the rest of the course. Lucy seems to be getting the hang of it and Laurence did his first orange today which he said was much more interesting than whites and yellows.
Routegadget:
https://routegadget.fvo.org.uk/rg2/#52&course=...
Saturday Mar 10, 2018 #
12 PM
Orienteering - race 12:00 [3] 2.2 mi (5:27 / mi)
Scottish sprint champs race 1
My heart wasn’t really in it from the hill onwards, I just couldn’t get motivated. Still pushed relatively hard, but started to jog a bit by the end.
https://routegadget.fvo.org.uk/rg2/#50&course=...
My heart wasn’t really in it from the hill onwards, I just couldn’t get motivated. Still pushed relatively hard, but started to jog a bit by the end.
https://routegadget.fvo.org.uk/rg2/#50&course=...
Off-road running 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Shadowing Lucy twice, and going to both starts, twice.
3 PM
Orienteering - race 14:39 [3] 2.5 mi (5:52 / mi)
This was much more like it. Trickier. Took some good routes, but missed 5. Jase was starting 1 min after me so I was having to push hard the whole way. Got him by 3 secs, but he got me by 6 secs on the first race so best me over all. Much closer to Ray in this race. He got me by 1 sec in the end though (and took 4 secs out of me on the run in!!!!).
I won W21. Pretty pleased. Don’t think I have won a big sprint race before.
https://routegadget.fvo.org.uk/rg2/#51&course=...
I won W21. Pretty pleased. Don’t think I have won a big sprint race before.
https://routegadget.fvo.org.uk/rg2/#51&course=...
Friday Mar 9, 2018 #
2 PM
Trail running 43:25 [3] 5.0 mi (8:41 / mi)
Braids. Very muddy. Felt a bit nauseous, and I have a touch of inov-8 foot, so slow.
Thursday Mar 8, 2018 #
1 PM
Trail running 55:07 [3] 6.6 mi (8:21 / mi)
Queens Drive time trial. 17:53. Quite pleased. 18:45 when I felt like I was going well at the end of January, so big improvement there. Then onto the Crags but I had no grip in trainers so skidded everywhere. Home via the shops for food. Weather just glorious.
Still a bit of JK dithering. The JK entries lady was LOVELY, but there are 8 in our party, and trying to blag that many entries, well I am not sure it is something I feel up for. We might go to the Lakes instead. hmm.
Still a bit of JK dithering. The JK entries lady was LOVELY, but there are 8 in our party, and trying to blag that many entries, well I am not sure it is something I feel up for. We might go to the Lakes instead. hmm.
Wednesday Mar 7, 2018 #
Note
Jeez! I bloody-well entered the JK before the rate went up at the end of Jan and I check now and I am not on the entries list!!! SI has no evidence of my entry. Grr! The only reason I can think of is that our cards were all cloned in South Africa and we had to cancel them all around this time, and maybe the payment was reversed and our entry cancelled. Not sure I can be arsed to try to grovel an entry when the JK in Cannock will surely be really quite “uninspiring” (that’s me being polite) but Laurence in particular will be gutted. Has anyone had similar SI Entries problems before?
6 PM
Road running 43:17 [3] 5.3 mi (8:10 / mi)
Home from work. Felt a bit ill. Colleagues were all coughing and spluttering everywhere, so I am glad to get out of there.
Tuesday Mar 6, 2018 #
7 PM
Fartlek 52:00 [3] 5.0 mi (10:24 / mi)
CAAC training
Long reps wth efforts. Fun.
Long reps wth efforts. Fun.
Drills 20:00 [3]
Warm up plyometrics and 5 mins solo drills after the running.
Monday Mar 5, 2018 #
12 PM
Off-road running 44:56 [3] 3.18 mi (14:08 / mi)
I ventured out on the Monday Arthur's Seat handicap today, along with Gordon Cameron who was the only other runner. I didn’t really know when to set off as no one else was there, but gave Gordon a head start of a few mins, mainly because I was not sure of the fastest route and could do with someone ahead. I had the advantage of wearing my dobbs, and reeled in a slipping Gordon by the foot of the gutted haddie. The haddie was snow covered, and rather unnervingly the previous person to have gone up seemed to have been wearing crampons. With Gordon behind me I was sure of a soft landing had I fallen, so scrambled up with only a few nervous moments. The top was covered in a thick mist, and I could not make out Netherhill at all, merely heading off in the approximate direction. Netherhill was snow free and good running, Crow Hill (also very hard to spot in the mist) was bizarrely knee deep in snow. Dunsapie, I didn’t really know where the top was, so took a guess at the middle of the plateau. Then on to Whinny Hill (route East of the loch) the top of which I would always call the promontory East of the small marsh, but Gordon tells me the top nearer the bog is used. On down to Haggis Knowe, and my big navigational error. Could not for the life of me find the little path through the gorse (I was going for the one that came out at St Margaret’s Chapel). The snow was thick, crags were covered, I was nervous, so I gave up and ploughed back up the hill to take a different route. Haggis Knowe was fun, and on to the finish. Great to be out in the mud and snow! 44:56, and room for improvement.
Road running 24:00 [3] 3.1 mi (7:45 / mi)
Jog there and back
Sunday Mar 4, 2018 #
Note
(rest day)
No running. After 5 miles a day all of 2018 I took a day off. Late night 5 miles plods were neither fun, not doing me much good. I have got fitter. I have proven to myself that my body can handle running. Now to start training properly, saving energy some days to do better running other days.
Saturday Mar 3, 2018 #
9 PM
Trail running 44:37 [3] 5.03 mi (8:52 / mi)
Out and about late at night after a long and tiring day buying TVs
Friday Mar 2, 2018 #
9 PM
Trail running 47:34 [3] 5.37 mi (8:51 / mi)
More out and about late night running. It is getting tiring, and a bit depressing to head out for a 5 mile solo plod late at night.
Thursday Mar 1, 2018 #
8 PM
Off-road running 1:02:22 [3] 6.18 mi (10:05 / mi)
Around Priestfield golf course (first time) then to Arthur’s Seat and through the bog, back via Newington looking for food shops open, and not finding any. Good excuse for cereal for dinner. Bit of XC skiing around the neighbourhood after.