Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Vhi relays. Loads of sleep as in the campervan with the kids.

Team was mummy strain, graeme and me. How long does a w60 take on 2.5k i wondered. Bit unusual doing a relay with a friends mum. I needn't have worried, mrs strain doing admirably and coming back in the pack. Alas graeme did less well, dropping 8mins (!) to quentin. The map was pretty hard to read but still - 8mins i had to get on sarah noot in 4.4k. I'm faster than her but not that much faster! Easy course in nice terrain. Probably pretty woc relevant. Just off 5 min / k. Would like to say that i dropped time, but probably no more than 1min, and quentin beat me by 1:13. damn he is hard to beat. That might be my training focus from now on, seeing as my tally against john tullie is looking pretty good this year (2:0) so either i rest on my laurels or i find another target.

C • Grrrrrrr 9

Really bad sleep due to a ferry diversion.

Vhi. W35 blue. Meelmore.

Nit a perfect run by a long way but not dire. 1 ok, 2 dire. Didn't trust my compass, rushing. 45 secs ish dropped on one of the easiest controls i will do all year. 3 ok but thought i was going to a boulder not a wall. I didn't look at the map enough. 4, 5, fine. 6 too low. Comes from not following compass again. 90 secs. 7 a little off, again by not getting a good direction out of the control. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 fine. 13 a but hesitant as the map didn't make sense but i was bang on so found it. 14, 15 fine. 16 too far left. 30 secs. ditto 17 10 secs. 2:40 dropped. I am looking for better than that. Pleased with the ones that went well. They generally are the ones where i respected the difficulty of the map and terrain and made a proper plan before leaving the control before. I suppose i was fairly flippant at the start. The course was an open area so should be easy enough, i was likely to win w35 by miles regardless, i was keen to get running away from the f*ing midges at the start area. Points i need to work on are the same as ever. Proper plan before leavinv the control. Respect each and every leg, no matter how easy it may look. Invest the time, no rushing.

On the whole a well planned course on an interesting area.

Was off to do 3 laps of the meadows when got bored already when i hit middle meadow walk so off to blackford hill. Wind & rain blew cobwebs away. nice. Legs felt much better. Even hamstring is less sore, but that might just be last nights acupuncture.

So tired. Got to bed at 9:30. zonked until woken at 1 and then 5:45. Feeling sleepy all day after so much sleep. Physio now so loojs like it'll be a boring rest day. .

Cycle to work. Was going to go running but legs not in the mood. Maybe lunchtime. Lucy up at 5, but fell asleep for an hour after reading bedtime stories last night so ok.

2laps of the meadows. Warm up for the sprint. Nice

Kb sprint. Legs were not happy. they were tired and grumpy. I fought against them but eventually they went on strike. So i walked to half way and jacked. little point walking a sprint, and it will make good training for next wednesday. Rest day tomorrow probably. NEED to get a good night sleep tonight to re energise.

Intervals with sula sarah o'n and tess. 6:30am, just as sula likes it. 1x6, 2x3, 3x2, 2x1. tried to keep up with sarah too much. Big mistake. Best session i have done for ages. Eyeballs out the whole way. Was going to run home after work but may have to see how damaged the legs are...

Run home. First time for ages. Enjoyed it. Legs felt surprisingly ok-ish apart from sciatica, which was better than yesterday.

Slept yesterday evening 6-7:30 so feeling quite human today despite getting up at 5:30

Felt about 80 this morning jogging. Everything hurt. Then got into it a bit and ran a bit further than planned.

To corstorphine and back for a bupa advanced health assment. Free through work & time off & needed a hearing test. best vo2max they have ever seen apparently. 70.1 but on a bike andnot to exhaustion so i would sooner trust ethans 66~ish

Cycle home. Competitive. All this cycling rather stuffs my ap stats, as i don't really think xtraining should count. Just as well i had lots of cycling todag as my legs needed the rest.