Training Log Archive: evie

Jogging along the beach. Harder when we turned around into the wind. Same stomach pain. Really hurt. And again, it stopped when we started training. Kind of weird.

Squad training at Redcar. Relay practice. Started with an actual relay. Laura came back a minute or so down on everyone else, but I caught it back and overtook them. I was pretty happy about it because I had a bit of a mare last time on this area. The map was still pretty bad but I learnt to not rely on the individual features too heavily as lots of big contour features weren't mapped. Next we did a trains exercise which I did okay on, but I messed up a bit when I was in front. After lunch we did another trains exercise where I managed to hold the front even though Sarah only started 30 seconds behind. Felt a lot more confident on the dunes. We did the last section of that trains course with Laura, then Megan, then a minute gap to me, then 30 again to Sarah. Nev told us to race it. Sarah beat me to the finish but she was only a couple of meters in front. I overtook Megan at no.1, even with the minute gap so I was really happy.

Jogging to the start feeling awful. Same stomach pains as my run on Wednesday. Had to keep stopping and trying to stretch it out.

Ainsdale Dunes as jircs practice. Ran green.
Weirdly I can't remember my stomach hurting during the course, but I wasn't really running I guess. Navigation was pretty decent apart from 2 mistakes and one leg where I was really slow because I was too hesitant. I was just generally pretty slow. Pretty bad weather- ran in a cag which I hate but I think it was the right decision. 9 mins behind Sarah P, but she said it was a really good run and I was only 6 behind Sarah Duckworth. All in all it could've been much better but I beat Rosie by 2 minutes so I must be doing okay.

Jog back from the start, mainly because I wanted to be dry quicker.

Started off very fast, but then had to keep stopping for people and when i got to the top of the hill I was slowed down by the fact that I didn't actually know where I was going. Sort of made up a new route. Felt so awful from about halfway so I was slower then. My stomach was so tight and it really hurt.