Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Couldn't hold my body together for a full week of competition in the end. I knew by halfway to the first control that I would do well to get around the course; kept plugging away in the hope of loosening up, taking track routes to the extent that I could and hoping that I might come good on the long 9th leg, but I didn't. Shortly afterwards, able at best to jog on the tracks (and, as it happened, sixth-last and going backwards), I decided that it wasn't really worth slogging around half-fit to come near-last as in Gothenburg three years ago, and called it a day (from one of the further corners of the map, too). Did manage to find enough to avoid the Walk Of Shame up the chute, but not with a lot to spare.

Given that this is the second time in three years that I've fallen apart at the last hurdle in a World Masters week after being previously OK, it does suggest that there may be an outer limit to what I can string together at the moment (hopefully not, with O-ringen still to come). At least there was a decent middle to show for this week.