Training Log Archive: andyhill

Event: 25th Sydney Summer Series #17 - Birchgrove
 

Event: SO SOG A9. Abbots Wood (north), Polegate (near A22 / A27 north of Eastbourn
 

Quick trip down past Brighton before today's wedding. Plan was just to run as fast as possible to rush back to get ready. Went pretty well in terrain very similar to Belgium with many vague creeks and ditches. Only lost time on #2 getting off compass and ending too far right (30 secs). Finished 2nd, 30 secs behind.

Blue - Splits

Event: Endurancelife Coastal Series - Dover
 

Course was mostly trails above the White Cliffs of Dover with a bit of bitumen. It was near 0 degrees so trails were icey and slippery. So many people were stacking it coming off the start line so I settled back in about 10th making sure the leaders were in sight. It was so hairy, I was afraid someone would slip off the cliffs into the sea. Reached the turnaround point at Walmer Castle feeling pretty good in about 8th position with the leaders only 1-2 minutes ahead and occasionally in sight. In the second half, direction signs were a bit hard to see and noticed a lot of the top guys were losing time which helped me. I was slowly picking them off with the pace getting faster averaging around 4 min/km for the last 10km. Crossed the line in 3rd place about 2 min behind the leader but for some reason wasn't 3rd at the presentation. Will have to wait for online splits and results.

Edit: 4th

C • Nice! 12

Event: GO SE League event
 

Completely stuffed #1, couldn't work out the track network (or lack of tracks that were mapped). Anyway should have been easy enough and lost over 2 minutes. Other than that no big time losses. Feeling pretty tired and legs are feeling very heavy at the moment. Partly from tiredness but also all my recent training has been on boggy trails or terrain. Finished 12th, 16 behind Nick Barrable.

Black - Splits

Event: SO SOG A8. Blacklands Farm, Sharpthorne, south of East Grinstead
 

O at Blackland Farm. Course was very wet and slippery so hard to get top speed. No real errors, just felt heavy and slow. Right knee and hamstring starting to play up. Finished 2nd, 1.30 behind Neil Crickmore.

Blue - Splits

Event: TVOC Urban Event
 

6th race in 8 days. Long Sprint event at RAF base in Halton. It was cold and wet again :( I think it's rained at some point every single day of our 4 weeks in the UK. Anyway run was pretty good, except lost time on the only two forest controls on the course. Maybe 30 secs at each. Finished 2nd, 4 min behind Will Gardner.

A - Splits

Event: SO SOG A7. Lancing Ring, Lancing (between Worthing & Shoreham)
 

Cold, wet and windy. Course was much harder than expecting with so many controls and such a detailed track network. Lost 2 min on #4 being on the wrong track, took me a while to work out what tracks were supposed to look like. Also quite a few 10-30 sec errors around the rest of the course. Finished 4th, 6 min behind Jack Leith.

Blue - Splits