Training Log Archive: Duncan

vs. Lloyd Taggart. He won. Tailed him to the first top, beat him to the bottom, followed along the contouring part, got dropped on the next climb. Cool second decent. Just spied him ahead on the final climb but he was well away. Decent run down then a hard-work 2.5k contour towards the finish. Could have dug in bit more possibly but the contouring was fast, and prob was always going to be slow on the final climb. Had a little pressure from behind towards the end. +2.10. And still need to buy a bum-bag for these bloody A races.

Late ride on the Long Mynd half-following an MBR route guide. Yep it's pretty cool. First loop around the north to descent into Cardington Valley. Second loop up the road out of Cardington and south along the main ridge to turn left just before the gliding club into Minton Batch. Both main descents really good fun. Fast and a little testing! Timed it well to have very few walkers around. Along the back roads back up to Church Stretton and its Christmas Fair with sausage and chips and mulled wine.

To work, from work to Telford Town Centre, to home.

Had planned to just do Woodside then try and start on the stretching/conditioning deficit. But when I got home didn't feel like I'd done anything so went and did Sutton Hill. Then Brookside. Then Woodside again. Good pace for the most part (esp Woodside 1 as I thought that was all I was going to do), though didn't follow through on the 'hills' too well, and was slowing by the end. Knees did feel niggly towards the finish. Not sure I'm using my left glute very well and definitely have a poor running action on that side.

Noticed from the local newsletter that all the roads in Sutton Hill start with S, noticed from my runs that all the roads in Woodside start with W, didn't notice it at the time but all the roads in Brookside do indeed start with B. The east side of Stirchley gets C and Hollinswood D (from Google Maps), that's all I've found so far.

Down from near the Trimpley crossroads and over the bridge at Bewdley for an anticlockwise triangle taking the second left. Was having to try quite hard for it. Bike could do with some TLC. Good hill at the end.

Maybe 7 laps total plus drills.

4*5mins. Thought beforehand that I was gonna do one or two more. But after trying hard on the first one gave that idea a miss. Kept with Paul W for the first 3 but on the last one started slow (taking a couple of laps to pass Claire) but then cranked to finish ahead. Getting ~1460 most times and 1499 on the last one. High exertion.

Exploring the ridiculous path/lane/road network in the dark.