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Training Log Archive: loobey

In the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2015:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Running	25	21:05:35	117.78		189.55		5833
Cycling	4	4:25:35	51.38	(5:10)	82.69	(3:13)	529
Orienteering	6	4:23:43	21.11	(12:30)	33.97	(7:46)	845
Total	30	29:54:53	190.28		306.22		7207

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Monday Aug 31, 2015 #

3 PM

Running 24:37 [2] 4.86 km (5:04 / km) +33m 4:54 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Exploring the streets. Had stomach problems all morning, so more getting some fresh air than anything.

C • getting used to scottish fo... 1

Sunday Aug 30, 2015 #

1 PM

Cycling 2:08:46 [3] 41.2 km (3:08 / km) +300m 3:01 / km

Long ride with Jonny. Out to Musselburgh then along the coast to Prestonpans and back via Dalkeith. Got stuck in Dalkeith Estate for a bit cos the gate was locked. So much fun though :)

C • Dalkeith! 1

Saturday Aug 29, 2015 #

3 PM

Running 39:41 [3] 7.5 km (5:17 / km) +213m 4:38 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Along the top of the crags then was planning to go up the seat. But feeling awful climbing again so opted for a lap of Holyrood Park instead. Running is not coming easy at the moment.

C • Pace 1

Friday Aug 28, 2015 #

2 PM

Running 1:01:00 [3] 11.71 km (5:13 / km) +284m 4:39 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Blackford Hill then ventured further to Braid Hill as well. Was cool. Didn't get too lost.

5 PM

Cycling 25:01 [3] 7.13 km (3:31 / km) +75m 3:20 / km

Thursday Aug 27, 2015 #

8 AM

Cycling 1:06:19 [3] 20.83 km (3:11 / km) +71m 3:08 / km

Took our new (old) bikes out for a spin along the canal to Halfords to pick up some helmets, locks and lights. Haven't cycled in aages so pretty sore legs.

2 PM

Cycling 45:29 [3] 13.54 km (3:22 / km) +83m 3:16 / km

Through the Innocent Railway tunnel to Argos and Asda and back.

Wednesday Aug 26, 2015 #

3 PM

Running 44:12 [3] 8.61 km (5:08 / km) +123m 4:47 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Blackford Valley. Took a long time to get into this run. Felt like I was shuffling most of the way.

Tuesday Aug 25, 2015 #

5 PM

Running 39:48 [3] 6.98 km (5:42 / km) +227m 4:54 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Evening run up Arthur's Seat.

Sunday Aug 23, 2015 #

2 PM

Running 23:55 [2] 4.74 km (5:03 / km) +85m 4:38 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Stomach has not felt great since lunch yesterday. Spent all morning in bed watching athletics. Managed to drag myself out for a very short run round the crags.

C • Arthur's Loop 1

Saturday Aug 22, 2015 #

2 PM

Running 50:12 [4] 9.56 km (5:15 / km) +184m 4:47 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Feeling good! Guess that's what watching Athletics World Champs and Mo Farah all morning does to you! :) Did 5km in the time Mo did 10km! Up Blackford, along top path and back along the valley. Then up Blackford again from the steep step side.

Friday Aug 21, 2015 #

9 AM

Running 1:16:49 [3] 13.31 km (5:46 / km) +141m 5:29 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Easy one with Renee to Cramond Island. Via Corstophine Hill and Lauriston Castle.

C • One way 1

Thursday Aug 20, 2015 #

11 AM

Running 1:31:32 [3] 14.49 km (6:19 / km) +732m 5:03 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

Pentlands!! Signed up to do the Pentland Skyline in October, so was interested to see what I'd got myself in for! Ran some of the first and last hills - Caerketton, Allermuir, Capelaw, Harbour, Bell's Hill. Course looks fairly obvious...run up every hill you can find :P Got a bit lost on some of the tracks on the way back and ended up running through the golf course. Got bad stitch again at the end, so had to walk the last bit back to where we started.

Wednesday Aug 19, 2015 #

Note
(rest day)

Tuesday Aug 18, 2015 #

5 PM

Running 1:04:13 [3] 12.83 km (5:00 / km) +147m 4:44 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Blackford, Craiglockhart and back along the canal. Saw a lil frog :)

C • me too! 1

Monday Aug 17, 2015 #

12 PM

Running 40:19 [3] 7.01 km (5:45 / km) +148m 5:12 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

To the beach!! with Renee. Via the top of Arthur's Seat of course :)

3 PM

Running 29:28 [3] 5.7 km (5:10 / km) +84m 4:49 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Back home again...post hot chip feast, so not feeling the greatest :P Passed on doing Arthur's Seat bonus hill this time.

Sunday Aug 16, 2015 #

5 PM

Running 41:14 [3] 8.1 km (5:05 / km) +147m 4:40 / km

Exploring Blackford/Braids/Hermitage...I dunno, they all seem like the same place?! Was a cool area after the road slog to get there. Ain't no Rivelin though :p

Saturday Aug 15, 2015 #

6 PM

Running 55:55 [3] 9.2 km (6:05 / km) +345m 5:07 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Arthur's Seat with Renee. Had heaps of fun running round like lil children along all the various tracks and hills. Feeling much better than yesterday. Uphills are still tough though.

Friday Aug 14, 2015 #

4 PM

Running 34:41 [3] 6.99 km (4:58 / km) +120m 4:34 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Today I was one of those punters who goes to Arthur's Seat to run around the road...and surprisingly I kinda enjoyed it. Took a long, long time for my body to loosen up. And had one close call where I thought the stitch was back to get me. But managed to hold it off to a slight ache.

Thursday Aug 13, 2015 #

Note
(rest day)

Travelling from Loch Lomond to Edinburgh. Then spent most of the day unpacking all my stuff into my new flat. :)
Then went for a stroll with Renee along the royal mile to watch some of the festival buskers.

Wednesday Aug 12, 2015 #

Note
(rest day)

Much needed!! Traveled from Glencoe to Loch Lomond. Wanted to go kayaking around the islands, but neither of our phones worked for an emergency contact so we weren't allowed to. Instead we ticked off another hill climb and walked up to the top of Conic Hill for an awesome view over Loch Lomond and the Highland fault-line.

Tuesday Aug 11, 2015 #

12 PM

Running 2:20:19 [3] 11.17 km (12:34 / km) +1048m 8:33 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

Walk/jog up the Pap of Glencoe with Renee. Cloud rolled over just as we reached the top...typical :p So sat up there a while until the view appeared again. Then went off the track and climbed almost to the top of Sgorr nam Fiannaidh, where once again the clouds covered the view! 10mins later and we managed to glimpse the awesome sight of the Three Sisters. Painful run/scree scramble back down the hill to finish.

Monday Aug 10, 2015 #

9 AM

Running 2:40:18 [2] 15.36 km (10:26 / km) +1313m 7:19 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

Ben Nevis with Renee. Walked up most of the way, ran a few bits where we could. Then some photos of the cloud from the top, some food (forgot about the celebratory strawberry champagne fudge though) and ran back down. Got quite slow towards the end, as both our legs turned to noodles and couldn't run properly.

Sunday Aug 9, 2015 #

10 AM

Running 1:06:34 [3] 10.26 km (6:29 / km) +374m 5:29 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

Run with Renee from Ben Nevis Inn up to the top of Cow Hill, then down into Fort William for a cute lunch date.

1 PM

Running 1:20:18 [3] 13.68 km (5:52 / km) +55m 5:45 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

Sightseeing run around Fort William with lots of stopping to take pictures...Inverlochy Castle, Neptune's Staircase and Treasures of the Earth. Then back to Ben Nevis Inn via the supermarket. Very tired legs by the end of this.

Saturday Aug 8, 2015 #

Note
(rest day)

Friday Aug 7, 2015 #

11 AM

Running (Warm Up) 10:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

Orienteering 1:45:00 [4] 10.0 km (10:30 / km) +440m 8:36 / km
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

WOC Long - Glen Affric
Messed up the first control, forgetting about the change in scale and stopping far too early. Then caught up to the Ukranian who started before me and a Chinese girl at 2. Ended up being stuck with them for the rest of the course. I was doing a lot of the navigating, but just couldn't run away from them cos the terrain was so slow and rough. Such amazing views on the long leg across the open. An austrian girl caught us on the way to 12, and all of a sudden we could suddenly run faster. Sort of shocked us out of the automatic plod we'd gotten into. Finished in 42nd place, to almost keep my placings consistent!

Thursday Aug 6, 2015 #

Note
(rest day)

Wednesday Aug 5, 2015 #

3 PM

Running (Warm Up) 15:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

Orienteering race 42:36 [4] 6.2 km (6:52 / km) +140m 6:10 / km
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

WOC Relay - Darnaway West
3rd leg with Lizzie first leg and Renee second.
Absolutely loved this map. Just running along grinning the whole way. Pulled us up from 19th to 14th, and nearly outsprinted the Spanish girl. But the NZ supporters ruined my stealth approach ;)

Running (Warm Down) 5:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

Tuesday Aug 4, 2015 #

12 PM

Running (Warm Up) 10:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

Orienteering race 46:18 [4] 5.3 km (8:44 / km) +200m 7:21 / km
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

WOC Middle - Darnaway East 40th
Pretty happy with my first WOC forest race. Navigation was good, just didn't have anything left in my legs to run fast through the rough terrain after all the sprints. Felt like I was orienteering in slow motion most of the way. Out-sprinted the Italian girl again (from a few controls out this time), for the 2nd time this week. ;) Could feel my side beginning to cramp up again on the last couple of controls, but managed to hold it off.
A much happier 40th place than the sprint final.

Running (Warm Down) 5:00 [2]
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

Monday Aug 3, 2015 #

11 AM

Orienteering 36:34 [3] 4.87 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: VJ Bolds - Yellow

Jogging round the Middle/Relay model map. Side still quite sore today.

Sunday Aug 2, 2015 #

11 AM

Running 10:30 [2] 2.01 km (5:13 / km) +30m 4:51 / km
shoes: Asics Trabuco Pink

Easing out the legs + 10mins stretching

5 PM

Running (Warm Up) 15:00 [2] 2.5 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 F-lite 195 Blue 2

Orienteering race 16:44 3.8 km (4:24 / km) +25m 4:16 / km
shoes: Inov8 F-lite 195 Blue 2

WOC Sprint Final - Forres East
Best sprint race I've done in a while, navigating well, running strongly. 10th place at control 10 with all the hard alleyway section complete. Then disaster struck and got one of the worst stitches I've ever had. Basically crawled/walked my way around the remainder of the course and dropped all the way down to 40th :'( Only made slightly amusing by the Norwegian who started 1min behind me running past, then messing up the second to last control massively and coming back past again in the finish chute!

Saturday Aug 1, 2015 #

6 PM

Running (Warm Up) 20:00 [2] 2.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

Orienteering race 16:31 [4] 3.8 km (4:21 / km) +40m 4:08 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

WOC Sprint Relay - Nairn
4th leg for the NZL team with Lizzie, Gene and Tim. Started in 14th position with Estonia and Latvia. Quickly went past them and running well through the tricky alleyways in the first half. Got told there were 2 girls just in front of me at the arena passage, but didn't really believe them cos I hadn't seen anyone else out there. But in the last loop around the park, I could see an Italian girl in front and set my sights on catching her. Punched the 2nd to last control behind, then pushed as hard as I could up the hill to get in front. Which meant the team finished in 12th place :)

C • 'just' in front 1

Running (Warm Down) 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon Orange

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