Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

No time for running today.

Rest day, with Matt, Lindsey, Matilda, Granny, Auntie Pam, Aileen, Auntie Jenny and Mary. Great people, great day, great chat - :-)))

C • Rest Day 2

Legs felt better than expected, and better than yesterday. The restorative effects of a bath, a lot of wine, and a curry!

Run home from work to school. Legs ok. Result! All set for a relaxing weekend.

There's a limit to what you can do on a flight with a kid either side. Woc 2013 long. First 5 controls.

Tired. Its been a tirng week. Ray's been away. Hard training being a single parent don't mix well. It was all worthwhile last night though, as I went up the Seat with the kids, and we lay in the grass under a blanket eating chocolate and watching the fireworks. Nice.

Blustery wind was coming from all directions. Tight hamstrings, and generally feeling a bit shit, so was going for a negative split, and trying to avoid a PW. Low expectations.

7:32, 7:25, 7:10, 7:16, 7:13 36:36
6:57, 7:05, 7:05, 6:54, 6:04 34:05

Pleased with that. Not far off a PB.

CF and WOC 1993 long. Unfortunately the only WOC long map I could fiind had routes on, which rather spoiled my fun!

Cold. Not wet. Nice.

Achilles v slightly sore. It was v slightly sore before yesterdays reps too though, and is not sore in the morning yet, and I think it is PT rather than achilles so I am not going to change my training plans unless it starts getting worse.

I got chatted up on my run today. Or I thought I was getting chatted up. A student caught me up and was running alongside me. 'You run fast...' he said, which was nice, but then followed it with '... for someone with such big calves. So what sport do you do cause it can't be running?' I should have said kick boxing, and given a demonstration.

My work colleague empathised, as he had been for a MRI to check out a possible hernia. He is 35 and a good amateur footballer. It wasn't a hernia, but the radiographer suggested that at his age he should take a step back from competitive sport otherwise he might get injured again. That's the NHS telling someone of 35 that they are too old for competitve sport. Hilarious.

The kids were at swimming, so I took a quick jaunt on the Prom again.

CF. all I had time for after a heck of a lot of planning.

Cold and wet. Not nice.

Leave desk at 1:15, then do 1mile warm up, 6 x 5 mins with 1min rec (about 1.3k each) followed by 1mile warm down, then get on my bike and cycle to school, pick up Lucy, hang around in the playground for 25mins until Laurence gets out, cycle home, get gymnastics stuff and drive to portobello, the kids have an hour gymnastics while I run 4 miles and get some shopping, drive home, and cook dinner. Looking forward to eating it, as I have yet to have any lunch.

Portobello prom jog. Lovely!

Looking at the routes on this:

http://www.petergagarin.org/misc/harriman-woc93sho...

Ouch! Tricky course!

Results here:

http://runners.worldofo.com/WOC1993Middle.html

Then some Catching features

Lucy was up a lot in the night.

Run to work via the canal. Nice. Legs felt fine. Stomach cramps after 5 miles.

Home the normal route, stopping to buy some dinner stuff.

Some fun looking at route choices with Nick. A course in Turkey tonight. I continued for a bit after the skype call ended. I forget how useful and interesting armchair orienteering is. I'm not doing much orienteering just now on purpose (building up brownie points for use at other times, concentrating on running base for a bit, absence makes the heart grow fonder etc etc), so need to get an armchair training program planned to make up for the lack of forest action recently.