Training Log Archive: philm64

WIM SW galoppen, Ibsley common , Brown.

Nice day. Nice area - open , so easy. A bit rough in places, with bracken etc. But generally good.

No big errors, tho a bad start with marsh/out of bounds & stuff, plus no 2 & 3 I was clearly not yet into the map as was rather slow.

Got into it after that & just banged it out, passing Charles Old Daniel at no 16 and keeping the pace going. Got lost between the last control & finish. Didnt' affect the result. Seemed to tire in last 15 mins but that's just being out of forest O for months. otherwise, fine.

http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/wim/15%20Ibs...

http://www.wim.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#56&cours...

Clmbing in Wye Valley, with Steve, Very hard time (both of us) on Wurlitzer E1, I led 1st pitch, took ages, quite epic, wet, he dogged second, very epic, wet & desperate.

Shattered after. Did one warm up route & two sport routes later. Climbing doesn't normally leave us so knackered!

Not a "rest day". Cycled in evening to Clifton & back - 40 mins.

C • Climbing 2

4 pitch "V Diff" in avon gorge with Dan, the lodger. Yet again I make a misjudgement . Just.... awful. Mainly due to my gear being stuck. And he getting more & more uptight about his inability to get my gear out etc.

Was up at 7am Saturday & got it on abseil.

Never again. and that includes getting a lodger.....

I need to wise up.

Mentally knackering, physically, quite easy. Rest pm.

Steady ashton court / leigh woods run with map, gentle really, left calf twinge in last 500m, no biggie. Felt within myself & good/ fit / skinny.

Then sauna / steam room with a lot of stretching, as still stiff from Tuesday nite.

Tired. Slept badly due to pain in legs & hands from double efforts yesterday.

Diabetes HB1AC results - best since started in Dec 2013. 44. probably due to the Alps, draining all sugar & carbs out of me. also the small amount of drugs I'm taking now. (for type2 diabetes, people, not EPO or owt!!)

Ate chocolate to celebrate!

indoor bouldering TCA - another really hard full on session, aided again by my being very light. (65 kilos now, apparently).

Very knackered at end. Excellent.

Loving this lifestyle. Apart from Lodger. whose Chinese wife arrives in my house around the 1st Oct - til 17th October. FUCKING HELL. and yes, his bedroom is above mine. oh god.

another UK trip.....? ;) anyone got any spare bedrooms or want to tempt me with a weekend orienteering away from the SW?????

C • Welsh Champs 4

SRC intervals (Chris Hopes) - jog to Vict park, then 3-4 laps on the paths, between bins - very tough, surprised at how the others left me for dead. A lot of work to do.

Jog back, then home - legs very sore ! not used to running at 3 mins/km pace. Mind you, that's world marathon record pace, so ..... I'm past it?

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8999423...

- check out speed on some of the efforts. Ouch.

one of the guys burning me off (Tom Guest) is older than me, too. Mark ducker, Paul deaton, and young Dave Cousins , also Johnny Evans, all had me on most efforts. Sigh.

more speedwork needed.

Travel back from Geneva.