Training Log Archive: BadgerIn the 7 days ending Dec 8, 2014:
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Sunday Dec 7, 2014 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 42:37 [4] *** 6.54 km (6:31 / km) +168m 5:47 / km
Broadstone Warren
Southdowns Middle Distance race. Quite a steep area (course said 240m climb despite Garmin showing less), and I felt dreadfully unfit for the hills, very slowly jogging up some of them and walking up far more. But plenty of downhill too which I tried to push much harder on. Nice forested area and well suited to middle distance. Navigated fairly well, apart from finding no 2 before no 1, but little time loss elsewhere - although it was fairly easy on the whole and controls were hung quite visibly. But need to get fitter to run well in terrain like this!
Results - 4th out of 26 (Black course)
Southdowns Middle Distance race. Quite a steep area (course said 240m climb despite Garmin showing less), and I felt dreadfully unfit for the hills, very slowly jogging up some of them and walking up far more. But plenty of downhill too which I tried to push much harder on. Nice forested area and well suited to middle distance. Navigated fairly well, apart from finding no 2 before no 1, but little time loss elsewhere - although it was fairly easy on the whole and controls were hung quite visibly. But need to get fitter to run well in terrain like this!
Results - 4th out of 26 (Black course)
Friday Dec 5, 2014 #
12 PM
Trail running warm up/down 20:22 [1] 3.79 km (5:23 / km) +14m 5:17 / km
Trail running 14:55 [5] 4.0 km (3:44 / km) +12m 3:40 / km
Hyde Park
Intervals (4 x 1km, off 2:00 recovery) - splits 3:41, 3:36, 3:59, 3:39 (average 3:44)
Not really at the races today. Cold, wet and a swirling wind, and didn't feel really up for an intervals session, but tried anyway. First one felt tough into the wind, but pushed through it. Second one much easier with the wind on my side. But found the 3rd far too tough and nearly quit half way through (dodgy stomach not helping as well), slowed ridiculously, but decided to at least try to keep going to the end of the km. But somehow pulled it around to do a decent the 4th one back with the wind back at normal pace.
So not really very good, will write this off as a bad day - still early days of trying to build my fitness back up again.
Intervals (4 x 1km, off 2:00 recovery) - splits 3:41, 3:36, 3:59, 3:39 (average 3:44)
Not really at the races today. Cold, wet and a swirling wind, and didn't feel really up for an intervals session, but tried anyway. First one felt tough into the wind, but pushed through it. Second one much easier with the wind on my side. But found the 3rd far too tough and nearly quit half way through (dodgy stomach not helping as well), slowed ridiculously, but decided to at least try to keep going to the end of the km. But somehow pulled it around to do a decent the 4th one back with the wind back at normal pace.
So not really very good, will write this off as a bad day - still early days of trying to build my fitness back up again.
Trail running warm up/down 12:56 [1] 2.54 km (5:06 / km) +17m 4:56 / km
Thursday Dec 4, 2014 #
8 AM
Road/trail runnning (Recovery) 48:37 [1] 8.86 km (5:29 / km) +66m 5:17 / km
Clapham Junction to work
Tuesday Dec 2, 2014 #
12 PM
Road/trail runnning (Medium) 1:26:06 17.77 km (4:51 / km) +91m 4:43 / km
Work > river > St James Park > Green Park > Hyde Park > loop and all the way back again
Loving these weekly 17km lunchtime runs at the moment! - this was probably my favourite kind of marathon training run - nice long-ish easy miles, long enough to know I've got some decent training miles in the bag, but fairly low intensity so always feel relatively fresh afterwards. Steady 5:00 mpk for the first 12k or so and then sped up to about 4:40's for the last 6 km as I raced to get back for my 2pm meeting!
Loving these weekly 17km lunchtime runs at the moment! - this was probably my favourite kind of marathon training run - nice long-ish easy miles, long enough to know I've got some decent training miles in the bag, but fairly low intensity so always feel relatively fresh afterwards. Steady 5:00 mpk for the first 12k or so and then sped up to about 4:40's for the last 6 km as I raced to get back for my 2pm meeting!