Training Log Archive: Becks

Warm up for the classic. Not as good as I wanted as stomach was feeling really tight and cramped, spent most of the time pre race in the loo queue. Legs also feeling pretty tired.

Argh, disaster day. JK Classic. Not sure whether it was nerves, I felt pretty calm and composed before running, or what I ate the night before or anything, but stomach was a pain from the word go today. As a consequence felt I was running really sluggishly, felt like going backwards, was concentrating so much on feeling physically crock that my navigation was also really poor. Bad route choices, terrible rough navigation, though was really pleased with the spiking of controls in the one complex area of the map on the light green hill. Finally gave in to the stomach and went to the loo at number 18, and nothing but clotted blood came out. I was scared, felt completely incapable of concentrating for the rest of the race, and walked the 3 or so kilometres back to the finish watching everyone go past me feeling sick as a parrot. Spoke to Sarah for a while afterwards about it and she reckons it's nothing to worry about, probably stress related after racing hard so many times in the last few days, but to go see the doctor when I get home anyways. Fed up, was really up for today's race, and really wanted to push hard and see what I could do. Gutted.