Training Log Archive: White Kenyan

warm up

Hameldon FCC final,

only entered late as i wasnt planning on running with it not meaning anything and only went as it wasnt far away and nothing else on, should have stayed at home and done a road race or training of my own.

anyway good area in places, poor in other parts, nailed 1 to 5 and was feeling great then was on bearing to 6 hit the ruin and no control :S checked all around just incase in feel over or was hidden still not there, relocted twice and went back to the same place, then just went hunting around found it in the end, was really angry as i could see adam and it was though no fault of my own that he caught me, just a crap map and bit of course as there was 2 unmapped ruins in the circle. small route mistake on 7 as i exited on bearing but with being in the wrong place i was 50m to the right. lost it here and had no motivaation as we slogged up the most boring leg though knee deep marsh and tussocks, then got really hungry/sitch at 12 so had a gel but no effect and with 15 and 16 being boring slogs up the hill and knee deep marsh i just started walking then 16 to 22 was good in the technical area and put effort in and was going well then into the woods which was grim with knee deep sinking style mud everywhere so jogged though here.

overall a bad day at the office ever since number 6 where i lost 3 minutes and lost motivation after making such a big mistake straight away and knowing i had 4km of long legs until i returned into the new area, combined with hungryness (dont know why had a decent breakfast at 9, 3 hours before) plus a sitch (probs due from my cold as i couldnt breath easily) rest tomorrow to get it gone. FORGET ABOUT TODAY END OFF.


"I received comments late on that there was a problem with control 146 on the Blue course. After revisiting the site the control had been placed on a larger unmapped ruin to the ESE of the mapped ruin. I should have picked this up when checking controls but failed to do so. There were no reported comments from anyone on the brown or black courses and this may well have been down to a different line of approach from the previous control? After looking at splits for this and the next leg with the planner some competitors on blue and brown lost significant time going to 146 so it was decided to remove the leg time for affected courses."

would have been looking at 59/60 from splits before 6

Birkenhead park schools league

nice little area shame the course couldnt be planned more sprint style with less longer slog legs but still had some good legs! no clear route on 1 maybe plus 10 secs still quickest, apprently mp'ed 3 but SI just never logged, lost 10 secs on 8 as it was a reentrent and it was hidden behind a tree, then lost a minute on 20 with it being in the wrong place/mapping error.

overall mp'ed but won by 3 minutes with 1.40 of mistakes ish and 1 minutes froming being slow from my cold which has nearly gone now and having a banna 30 mins before so stich

TOP LITTLE AREA FOR SPRINT!!

warm up/down

knees felt a little werid after last nights training, feel fine now so just a rest day and Birkenhead park tomorrow which im looking foward to looks like another sprint style map, so do some training after to then sundays race. weekends running sorted.

Harriers pretty quick pace and efforts even though we weren't meant to be doing efforts, still got this cold so kept getting alias of crap in my mouth

testing, 3 3 minutes at a increasing pace

Vo2 max test, on a increasing incline as well.

today went much better than last time although i wasnt perfect again but got nearly everything done and got the main ones done so all good :D improvement!!

recovery run after this morning

Vo2 test tomorrow so resting

some more legs, mostly squats, being careful + core

Recovery Run

jog back from the gym to lossen off from yesterday.