Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Training at Glenluce. Warren had resurrected a 1980 5-days course and invited people to challenge the times that Oyvin Thon and Jorgen Martensson (along with Warren himself) had done - something Aston achieved, which was particularly impressive because Glenluce has greened up a fair bit, especially in the gullies, and is in my reckoning at least 30 seconds/km slower than it was at the time of WMOC 2002 (I can't speak for 1980).

I wasn't up for 11.6km - was aiming for 45 minutes - and decided that half the course would be enough for me (conveniently it came back close to the start point). Navigating OK and a bit more fluent in the terrain than I was at Creswick, but still couldn't run much up any of the hills (although interestingly small hills were a bit easier in the terrain than on tracks). Could also read the map fine, so it must have been a lousy map bag last time and not my eyesight. Was good to get into the forest on what was a rather depressing afternoon in the outside world.