Training Log Archive: philm64

Sport climbing, wye valley, 6 routes, with Liz. Hardest a 6b repeat.

Shoulder hurt, & still quite knackered, but fun anyway.

Pretty battered. viewed 4 houses.

GWR Towpath 10km, very hot day, 30 degrees, but luckily this was shady mostly, but still effing hot! Was in 2 minds as to whether I should even race, but blister from Wednesday had healed, so started.

13th 1st Vet50, 39:17.
5km's in 19:20 & 19:57.

http://www.greatwesternrunners.org.uk/index.php/re...

Plan was to treat as fast paced race-training run at 4mins/km, so set off behind some veteran luminaries like Ken Ham (wok man) & Robin Phillips. Pattering along in my nice road racers.

1km was a silly 3:39, so slowed down and did 3:55 for km 2, at which point "Ken Hom" (Westbury; vet55) suddenly slowed to a crawl, so past him I went. Fast Vet45 Paul Deaton (clubmate) ran with me for 2km, but at 4km I felt OK so trotted past, banging out a few sub-4's to reach 5km turn in 19:20. Not half bad!

Ooops. windy on return, and by 6km, i was starting to hurt. 7km - drinks. But caught an ailing Robin Phillips (Westbury; Vet40), and , as he was clearly dying, dropped him too. Then caught another runner. Dropped him too! Why? I was also dying? Struggling to keep kilo's the right side of 4 mins now - in pain. GRIM. Lucky to hold on ahead of these two runners.

Garmin was lying to me hilariously the whole way, and thought i did 13km, or something, with a 10km split of 28:45. oh well. Has it been hacked by ISIS? https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1760457...

Pleased. won wine; small consolation for missing Tyntesfield 10km at which I'd have also hoped to win Vet50.

Rest day - blister; sore LH hip again (!) - some dog damage areas sore again. TCP back out again.

Pulled out of house - well, told them to re-market it, same thing.

28 degs in shade, 31.5 in car on drive to town. A bit hot anyway! no towpath tomorrow - too hot / too tired. YEAH RIGHT!!!!

I raced it!

Sport climbing with Tim Tett at Wye valley wyndcliff quarry - a fair few routes! Very sunny, so got cooked alive - this is a cold weather winter crag!

Tim did his first "lead" and pulled a hold off, resulting in an impressive fall! He wasn't shaken. What bad luck!

Good day tho!

BOK park urban, Olbury court, Blue, 6.3km

Very hot, & tired from climbing.

big error - going north out of 8. gave up & cut losses & ran past no 8 again - others, amazingly, carried on and climbed the hideous slope with undergrowth & rocks etc. - vile. I lost about 100 seconds here, says Garmin trail. Then a bit peeved as no way to get to no 9 except run around wall - boring . no 10 in wrong place, but i saw it so gained there. Not fair?

Splitsbrowser shows a dismal story, only on about 14th place at no 3, and thought I was doing OK? Miserable splits really. How did Adam take 3 mins out of me on no 9 ? & 1 min faster than everyone else.... That wall.......? :-\

http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Got a blister on 2nd toe of left foot - hot? from climbing shoes? from "new" trainers? very annoying.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1003969418

C • Number 9 wall 4

Walk in Cheddar area with Liz; drizzle at first.

probably 6 miles or so, some hills, etc. Tired.

Injuries improving - good.

Looks like i pull out of house purchase.

£850 on solicitor fees plus £450 on survey.

I just want to live in another part of the Bristol area. No reason being in the south?


Bit tragic to have wasted 3 months getting that wrong, eh. rent over 3 months = £2550

C • House 4