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Training Log Archive: Ollie

In the 7 days ending Dec 20, 2009:

activity

time

miles

Cycle Commuting

3:20:03

42.3

(4:44)

68.07

(2:56)

Cycling

3:01:26

40.5

(4:29)

65.18

(2:47)

Score Orienteering

36:02

15 /

16c

93%

Road Running

20:00

3.11

(6:26)

5.0

(4:00)

Orienteering

18:51

1.8

(10:28)

2.9

(6:30)

18c

Total

7:36:22

87.71

141.15

15 /

34c

44%

1:40

0:00

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Sunday Dec 20, 2009 #

Cycling (To/from Party) 57:43 [2] 21.28 km (2:43 / km)

To Spitalfields, then to St James Park, then back home (via the Embankment).

Saturday Dec 19, 2009 #

Road Running tempo (5K) 20:00 [5] 5.0 km (4:00 / km)
ahr:179 max:192 shoes: Gym Trainers

Run around Victoria Park - 2 laps of the east part of the park, cutting across via the big fountain. Very cold (around freezing). Icy in a couple of places but not a big problem. Felt like I was putting in quite a bit of effort, and should have been on for a low 19-minute time, but I think the cold made me go slower than I felt I was. (Also still getting over a minor cold I've had for a little while. Was wheezing a bit near the end.)

Kilometre splits: 3:53, 4:00, 4:12, 4:05, 3:45. The course was essentially flat. An equal split overall (first 2.5km in 10 minutes exactly.)

Cycling (To/from Pub) 1:17:48 [3] 27.68 km (2:49 / km)

Various (6) short cycling stints - home to Brick Lane, then to Liverpool Street Station and back to Brick Lane, then up to Crouch Hill (via Green Lanes - got rather lost), then back home, then out to Bethnal Green and finally back home again.

Friday Dec 18, 2009 #

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 22:54 [2] 8.26 km (2:46 / km)

Disappointingly, no snow on the ground at all.

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 27:04 [2] 9.06 km (2:59 / km)

Thursday Dec 17, 2009 #

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 23:23 [2] 8.27 km (2:50 / km)

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 27:37 [1] 8.57 km (3:13 / km)

Lightly snowing, and wet on the ground.

Wednesday Dec 16, 2009 #

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 26:04 [2] 8.28 km (3:09 / km)

Tired after yesterday evening's race.

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 27:56 [2] 8.55 km (3:16 / km)

Cold, wet, raining and very late at night. Also laden down with cheese.

Tuesday Dec 15, 2009 #

Cycling (To Station) 11:36 [3] 4.17 km (2:47 / km)

Work to Victoria Station.

Cycling (From Station) 34:19 [3] 12.05 km (2:51 / km)

From Victoria Station to home, via The Mall, Kingsway, Angel and Hackney (stopping at the supermarket to get a bite to eat!) Nearly came a cropper on Kingsway, a car coming the other way swung across to turn right, and didn't slow down. I had to do an instinctive swerve and just made it. Too tired perhaps to get an adrenaline hit from that near-death experience, but certainly the scariest close encounter for a while.

Orienteering race (Sprint Race) 18:51 [5] **** 2.9 km (6:30 / km)
18c shoes: Gym Trainers

SO sprint race in The Lanes in Brighton, as part of the Brighton City Centre score event. I did this special section right at the beginning of my race, being one of the first people to enter the section, I got overtaken a few times and made two bad mistakes at controls 16 and 17, in the Royal Pavilion grounds. Vocal encouragement by some local girls loitering in the park didn't help. Finished this section 3rd out of 42 - possibly going a little too fast considering I had a regular street-O to do immediately afterwards.

C • Brighton 2

Score Orienteering race (Street Race) 36:02 [4] *
spiked:15/16c shoes: Gym Trainers

Remainder of the Brighton race was a score event, my route included a couple of killer hills and some spectacular controls, including the bandstand on the sea-front. I got all the controls but one, and hand nearly six minutes to spare at the end, so should have been able to get them all (four people out of around 40 running did so) I wouldn't have won though - the winner did sub-50 minutes, including the special section. My time overall was 54:53, ending up 5th of 42 - the top three got all the controls.

Good fun on a very chilly but dry (and not frosty) night.

Monday Dec 14, 2009 #

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 21:53 [4] 8.48 km (2:35 / km)

A short section of the canal was closed, necessitating a diversion. Otherwise, this could have been a sub-21er.

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 23:12 [3] 8.6 km (2:42 / km)

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