Training Log Archive: IanW

Not at all in the right frame of mind for this, likely would have been a nice event if held when originally intended (early February) but the end of May didn't suit it. Never really got into the map, which wasn't too hot in places but my navigation was often worse. This was despite had planned routes for the majority of the course along the timed-out section from #5 to #6, but execution was just crap in a number of places... Walked in from #21 to the end.

C • You would have beaten me i... 2

Need to get used to running in the warmth, body doesn't like it.

Preferably in some nice runnable non-undergrowth filled forest with some decent technical detail...

Wandered around to Donnington Bridge and up the towpath to watch some of eights - doesn't really lend itself as a spectator sport...

Finally entered the Scottish...

C • Scottish 3

Gentle game of cricket in the early evening, close game and good fun.

Warm up along the road and back, and to the start - legs felt really heavy and not really wanting to go anywhere.

Warm down back up the road, some stretching then jog back down to the cars. After needlessly testing the clock in an Emit brick after a splits mix-up... Legs felt far more bouncy after the run.

Berkshire summer training event at Bloom Wood, did the long course trying to take things at a reasonable pace. Navigation far better today, a couple of 30 second misses having dropped too low/overshot features/generally got the route execution slightly wrong, and a few hesitations/sub-optimal route choices. Remembered the importance of slowing things down when necessary to get it right.

Nice fun run out, and nothing near the utter tooling of yesterday's run...

GPS distance - 5.15km

Summer Series at Whiteleaf. Really quite hilly. Navigation was crap, poor compass work and bad route choice decisions, the former leading to terrible execution of the latter. Not sure if I can say I truly spiked any of the controls...

Short loop - 1.1k, 100m climb - 11.30 (GPS - 1.4km)
Long loop - 2.3k, 115m climb - 28.00 (GPS - 3.8km!) (Time loss - 7'+)

Collected in #2 from the long loop, then went over to #6, from where there was a 900m leg back to the start/finish with a straight/round route choice:

Straight - 1.05km, 75m climb (mostly in one steep section)
Round - 1.45km, 25m gentle climb

Did a mass start from #6 to test which was faster, we (me, Jon, Ed and Dan) each ran the same (or in my case, intended) routes from when doing the course. Straight turned out to be about a minute faster, I found I'd lost at least 3.5' faffing around when doing the leg first time round...

Outside, pretty muggy - quads a bit sore after yesterday.

Random moment of the session - helping rescue a punt pole for a stranded/useless crew (delete as appropriate)