Training Log Archive: evie

countryside adventure
preface: no breakfast. clearly not enough food or water. ‘memorised’ the map beforehand, so took no phone or map.

So, it all started to go wrong a mere 2 minutes in when i recklessly changed my route to seven arches to avoid some people i dont even really know, which left me a bit disoriented. From there though, I felt good to be back on track and carried on about 500m before realising i didnt recognise it at all. ran back to a sign i have run past 30 times thinking it was a map, but alas it was just historical information (bollocks). Ran back and tried a different route. eventually, i made it to somewhere id been before. crossed the road, went the wrong way again (tbf all maps suggested there was only one path here). thought i could see adel playing golf and wanted to shout her, but restrained myself (it wasnt her). but i found the path i needed after some wandering through a field and after a mere 8km i could see the reservoir in the distance. So near, yet so far. Between me and it lied cows. I got so close then wimped out and jumped the fence to avoid them, and some other runners gave me a weird look. But hey, I made it. And it turns out from the reservoir path you can’t actually see the reservoir because theres a phat fence and grot. But I eventually made it to the far side, and this is when i started to bonk. 11km in. the furthest point. The 17° sun was really getting to me and i was desperate for water. Then i discovered the path along the other side wasn’t accessible and i had to run along a long straight road. felt like an old western or post apocalypse film. couldnt see anyone, no cars, just the road in the distance with all the birds making noise around me. eventually a man appeared in the distant haze. after several mins i reached him but i couldnt see his bag at first so i didnt ask for water. mistake. dehydration was really taking over. i got back to the cows which had moved to the far style i needed to cross. i got so close and then 2 of them started mooing at me a lot and then walking quickly towards me. there was a bush running along the fence this time and i was at a gap so i had one chance to get out and i took it. dont trust those big bastards. started going a bit crazy. thought i might never make it home. but then i got back to the woods before the ring road, trying my best to just keep moving so i could get home and get water. i was broken by the time i reached the park and had to walk the last 500m home because there was no chance i was getting up the donkey steps.
But despite everything, the countryside felt so surreally beautiful i dont know what it was about it (probably just my dehydration) but the atmosphere was just lovely and felt so different to anywhere ive ever been. Will come out here more often.

(not apologising for the length of this)

C • Could’ve drank from a puddle 8

to ringroad with dad. very, very wet on the ground made it very slow moving in the woods. also rained on us a lot but wasnt too cold so was quite nice really

w/o band - thought it would be nice to get my glutes some slightly lighter exercise since theyve been a bit achy since sunday

WU/D admittedly should have been longer but rushed into pen and lazy afterwards, but i have nothing left to train for for a long time so can afford a bit of stiffness for a couple days

british relays- womens premier
alice set me off in 2nd with chloe maybe 1min ahead of me. saw her out there a few times but going in a different direction so couldn't tell how i was doing in comparison. noticed mary behind me at #8 and was a bit scrappy to the next one in panic mode but overall pretty clean and as quick as i could go for now.
just about held off mary though and had overtaken chloe somewhere so arrived back in the lead! (although grace actually destroyed me on leg times) with solid run from bryony and a very happy 2nd place for the team