Training Log Archive: BrandNewMeIn the 7 days ending Jun 15, 2014:
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Sunday Jun 15, 2014 #
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This has been a nice week off orienteering. I have done nothing whatsoever to do with orienteering. No geeking, no catching features, no planning and certainly no running in a forest with a map. Its been good. Kept me hungry for orienteering.
The niggles are still niggling, but as under control as they have been since Feb last year. I'm physically ready for the last two weeks of hard training before WOC, keen to get back in the forest for the next two weekends.
The niggles are still niggling, but as under control as they have been since Feb last year. I'm physically ready for the last two weeks of hard training before WOC, keen to get back in the forest for the next two weekends.
2 PM
Road running 34:32 [3] 4.6 mi (7:30 / mi)
slept:8.0
Ray was off running, Fran's away as are mum and dad, so today's running was laps of the meadows with Laurence on his bike when Lucy was at a party. Worked well except he wanted me to go at 6min miling the whole way. Not going to happen.
Saturday Jun 14, 2014 #
6 AM
Off-road running 56:41 [3] 6.36 mi (8:55 / mi)
slept:7.0
A run at 6:30 on Saturday morning - only Sula drags me out that early. The problem with sula is that she only has one pace - fast. Round the whole outside of Holyrood park clockwise, in mud the whole way, then up the crags and back on the path above the bog path. Good. Chatty. Did a bit of 7 min miling, chatting away still on the asphalt after dunsapie to drop a bloke who had joined in off the seat, and clearly thought he should be overtaking us. He dropped back after a couple of minutes, much to our amusement. Seriously though, sula is nuts running this quick this early.
12 PM
Off-road running 51:19 [3] 5.76 mi (8:55 / mi)
The kids got up way too early today, so were in foul moods by lunchtime. I nipped out before Ray headed to Moray.
Blackford hill, braids and back via golf course, fields and Cameron toll. Brown crop top weather, which was just as well as all I had in the kit drawer was a brown crop top and some riduculously short scottish athletic shorts.
Blackford hill, braids and back via golf course, fields and Cameron toll. Brown crop top weather, which was just as well as all I had in the kit drawer was a brown crop top and some riduculously short scottish athletic shorts.
Friday Jun 13, 2014 #
7 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:7.0
Nice level of leg stiffness from last night meant I was going well and feeling good this morning.
No black rock for me as my babysitter (Fran, Mum & Dad) are out of town. Achilles wouldn't like it either. This week is turning into an enforced easy one - Ray is away Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. Never mind. After this two hard weeks, then an easy one before WOC.
No black rock for me as my babysitter (Fran, Mum & Dad) are out of town. Achilles wouldn't like it either. This week is turning into an enforced easy one - Ray is away Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. Never mind. After this two hard weeks, then an easy one before WOC.
Thursday Jun 12, 2014 #
8 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:7.0
Feeling slightly more human today. I think maybe Sunday took more out of me than I thought. It was one of those races where I felt dire from about 20mins in, and the rest of it was about getting across the finishing line. Not sure if it was the heat, or a virus or whatever. So exhausted at the end, which is surprising for a 90min race at a slow pace. I have been training well recently on the longer runs.
7 PM
Intervals - long endurance 55:00 [3] 6.5 mi (8:28 / mi)
How exciting! Trotter training for the first time in over 18months! It was v embarassing. Lots of random people asking if I was new.
Boglauf, which effectively is 6x3mim with 3 min rec on a muddy, grassy, boggy, gravelly relatively flat path around hunters bog on Arthur's seat. I felt shite beforehand - tired, crap legs, achilles and ankle and knee niggles etc - but great during. Dodged the blue blazer to maximise sleep. Next week maybe...
Boglauf, which effectively is 6x3mim with 3 min rec on a muddy, grassy, boggy, gravelly relatively flat path around hunters bog on Arthur's seat. I felt shite beforehand - tired, crap legs, achilles and ankle and knee niggles etc - but great during. Dodged the blue blazer to maximise sleep. Next week maybe...
Wednesday Jun 11, 2014 #
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(rest day)
So tired. I set off for a run from work, mainly for stress relief purposes, but decided that I was too tired, so found a nice shady patch of grass and did some relaxation. Nice. But childcare means that I won't get running much this week, and probably not tonight. Boo.
7 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.5
So tired and grumpy. Ray came away from the GP with two carrier bags of creams for Lucy yesterday, so an unbroken nights sleep might not be too far off. Maybe.
Tuesday Jun 10, 2014 #
8 AM
Road running 10:00 [3] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
slept:8.5
Bed at 9:30, still wake up exhausted. Tired.
Logistical fail this morning. Grr. Running home from work over the Pentlands. The logistics required to drop the kids off then get to work by 9 if I am not running or cycling are complex, and I have failed totally this morning. Shit happens...
Logistical fail this morning. Grr. Running home from work over the Pentlands. The logistics required to drop the kids off then get to work by 9 if I am not running or cycling are complex, and I have failed totally this morning. Shit happens...
5 PM
Off-road running 1:55:00 [3] 13.0 mi (8:51 / mi)
Same as last Monday. I stopped my garmin crossing a road and forgot to restart it, but the run lasted roughly the same amount of pet shop boys discography album as last week (once through completely and to Being Boring second time round). I was exhausted today, and was considering just getting the bus home to go to sleep, but the run was nice and I felt pretty good, running up braids today. Need to make sure I don't get too exhausted though.
Monday Jun 9, 2014 #
7 AM
Cycle commute 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:7.0
Ray actually asked me this morning if I was running to work. Hahahaha! Everything hurts. Knee whack, shin whack, ankle scraped as it got stuck in a rocky hole, that's on top of the usual cuts, bruises, aches and pains.
Frustrated by yesterday's race. Didn't follow the plan at all. Let myself get distracted by others time and again. I've got to learn to trust in myself. When I am orienteering alone it is perfect. When I see others it goes to peices.
Frustrated by yesterday's race. Didn't follow the plan at all. Let myself get distracted by others time and again. I've got to learn to trust in myself. When I am orienteering alone it is perfect. When I see others it goes to peices.
2 PM
Off-road running 28:27 [3] 3.25 mi (8:45 / mi)
Recovery run. Pollock, bog, Castro and back via school to get Laurence. The pace was probably a bit too swift due to me underestimating how long it takes to run 3 miles off road when it is a bit hilly, v muddy in not at all grippy trainers. Very wet, a lot of fun, and not painful.