Training Log Archive: Euzie

Moursig
Bit of a grim day just a short one after race yesterday, pretty rough terrain and horendously steep slope with surely 600m of that climb in about 1km was pretty grim going up and down.

wu

lochcarron highland games. over in gairloch for a week with the mother on holiday so thought we would pop along to this to check it out. turned out beth was there and gav bryrson so was quite fun. pretty small hill race about 1.1km along the road up a short hill down then back along the road. started and accepted quickly that trying to push with gav along the road at the start wouldnt be too wise so let him get away a little and he took a 5-10 sec lead into the bottom of the climb. he started pretty strong but as it got steaper I could see he was struggling so managed to push past and take a small lead of maybe 3-5 sec over the top. he caught back up pretty quickly on the downhill and passed me getting a couple seconds away from me before we hit the road again where i knew i had no chance and he just cruised away, ended up 15 sec back in 2nd. happy enough and tbh just glad beth didnt beat me to the top as i was a little worried about before the start.

wu/wd with gav and beth

got persuaded into doing the mile and i guess was a chance of picking up a little more prize money so not a bad idea. was expecting this to be pretty tragic as cant even remember the last time before today id run for less than an hour. it did end up being fairly tragic and gav almost lapped me lol (200m track) but still got 3rd anyway.
good fun day in all and £55 overall was a nice bonus

did a 4x100m with gav and beth and another guy, we came dead last but was good craic, and just a wee potter to cool down after

51.2km, 578m, 30.5km/h
Legs pretty sluggish so just a bit of back roads bumbling

Carn bhac
Had a bit of a mare before the start realised when I got there is forgotten my Garmin which had the route on it, so had to drive all the way back to ballater to download some maps , once running was nice tho

21.47km, 211m, 28.1km/h
WU

1.41km, 110m, 21.3km/h
Club hill climb champs- 1st senior.
Not bad for my first ever real bike race. Not a day for fast times as heavy rain made the course quite slippy especially when standing but Happy to win considering a decent field mostly on significantly lighter bikes than me and that this is by no means my ideal distance, far too short and sharp would much prefer something 15mins +. Anyway no complaints, think I ought to find a few more bike races to do

C • Races 2

16.8km, 184m, 31.1km/h
WD

32.14km, 319m, 31km/h
Easy short one