Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

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.

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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.


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Shadowing Lucy twice, and going to both starts, twice.

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.

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Braids. Very muddy. Felt a bit nauseous, and I have a touch of inov-8 foot, so slow.

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.

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?

Home from work. Felt a bit ill. Colleagues were all coughing and spluttering everywhere, so I am glad to get out of there.

CAAC training

Long reps wth efforts. Fun.

Warm up plyometrics and 5 mins solo drills after the running.

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.

Jog there and back