Training Log Archive: philm64

Travel to Morocco for a weeks trad climbing. Gatwick and very little sleep!

Medium-long run with efforts on any grass, slopes, even road. generally uphill -ish for 1st 30 mins.
Clearly in far fitter form than early 2013. Promising.

http://www.mapometer.com/running/route_3821226.htm...

My 800m road effort was 3:02 - I'm sure this is the fastest I've ever done this, and it has 15m of climb in it after a slight downhill (1m!) start. I'd done 45 mins pretty full on running up to this point ..... http://www.mapometer.com/running/route_3821232.htm...

downhill road bits at end were not fun - should have gone to grassy park. Final "effort" up Victoria Park & home. Good job!

Had intended to run in the afternoon but got caugh up in other house-related stuff plus music. Up teh function rehearsal - with Steph from the Recovered - made for an interesting and enjoyable evening!

RH hamstring still sore/stiff. Getting fed up now. forced to only jog, and took a map with me to amuse myself with in the park. also looking at houses & streets. Started looking for a new house today.

Doubt i covered much more than 3 miles, by the end was stopping every 5 mins to stretch r hamstring - which helped for a few minutes each time. Boring.

Red Point indoor climbing + Sam. Pretty good. New shoes, which hurt.

Got up several choice 6a+ and then got a 6b in one having done it first with one rest. Fingers feeling stronger. Technique improved. Dodgy injured finger felt reasonable. All set for Morocco next week now!

Bar after - beer, chips, crisps. Noticed lots of totty all less than half my age and not very good at climbing and behaving in a somewhat immature manner. I'm surprised they even let me climb here at my age?

Right hamstring even stiffer. Tired, but less so, and less off colour.

Workmen finally leave house, so I can start getting it ready for selling.

Gig (Fleece) with Andy J Williams in evening. We were headlining on last. Band before helped us by being boring. Band prior to that were excellent but too heavy. We were .... OK. Not finest hour. One of my guitars went out of tune. Another song, i hit a bum note at the start. Ouch.

Went quite well. No sex drugs or groupies tho. Finished off evening at 1am with whisky & crisps in bed (alone). Glad i have no job! Too much lemonade (in bloody shandies) - my diabetes can't hack it, & i was up all night weeing. Hmmmm.

Very tired / off colour & right leg v stiff.

Off colour may be the remnant of my old PVFS fatigue illness 1997 - 2006. Who knows. It passes, though.