Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Rusland beeches. Nice forest. Good course. Feeling fit and strong. Just not loving it right now. Injuries not good. :-(

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Seds training in the lakes. This is the first training weekend I have done in over two years. All the technical training I do is by myself, on a course that I have planned myself, on a map the is usually a fair bit out of date. I hate this. No camaraderie, guessing where the control would be, guessing if the map has changed that much or you are in the wrong place, guessing which routes are good when analysing it later. But when you have kids you can't pick and choose when / where you go training.

So got to the meeting place for the seds training and have nobody turn up was really quite frustrating. After waiting for half an hour, I went for a 30min warm up with a map. Still nobody. With ray and the kids waiting in the van, and having driven three hours to get there I had to do something. So out on the only map I had, from the jk 10 years ago, on a course I drew up with a biro, only to find the course went through a peice of forest that had been clear felled, with deer fences everywhere, new tracks etc etc. By the time a hunt came through the forest I was in for a second time I had had enough and called it a day. Sad.

Then I looked at the other maps I had with me. I had an eskthwaite intake map with me that was only 3 years old and had a bilbo middle race on it. So we drove up the road and I did that. It was nice but with no controls and no one else in the forest it felt a bit like going through the motions. I never organise these weekends myself, so no criticisim to the organiser who had thought I would drop out and had found somewhere else to park and didn't let me know.

Resting the Achilles. Patience. I have an exam next week as distraction. 'Technical accounting - derivatives and their uses'

Trying a run out with a cold. Felt ok but slightly sore achilles. Getting inflamed for the first time in ages. Hmmm. That's one of the reasons why running when a bit ill is bad for you. It gives you niggles. Icing / stretching / strengthening and being sensible for a while. See how it goes.

Still feel ill, but had to go to work today as I made millionaire's shortbread last night, so would spend all day eating it if I stayed at home.

But a good day of tidying up maps and getting things on DOMA etc.