Training Log Archive: caitlinirving

Event: LOC Technical Race 3
 

totally didn't get lost on the way to the start...

C • same caitlin, I woulda walk... 2

Did the long, 6.4km, just plodded round.
Enjoyed this a lot, good long legs - not micro navigating, picked up off the big features and executed my plans well. Small miss in the circle at 6 and distracted at 10 by my dad lol. Annoyed because I was on the right line to 10 but spotted a different control and ran to it, wrong one, oops! Gave dad something to laugh at anyway hahaha, wasted like 1.5mins on this.

tired

Meant to be going on a 15K hill run with dad and his mate but I had a bad stomach on the way in the car. Started uphill feeling fine but then once we reached a small flat part my stomach cramped lol. Jogged back down to the loos at whinlatter.

Felt better so ran up the forest track and did 5x1min (40sec walk recovery) hills. Then carried on up, not really knowing where I was going, ended up doing a nice loop and followed the Park Run signs backwards to the centre. Don't think I'd have managed the 15K run as it was a long graft so probs wise to have done this instead anyway. Enjoyed it!

Liverpool 5 - 2 Roma <3

still feeling crap mentally

C • Everyone 2

Event: Northern Championships (UKOL)
 

WU

Retired.
Wasn't in the right head space from the start to be honest, not really concentrating. Scraped through the first few with scrappy nav and then had bad mistakes at 5- just crap bearing and line and didn't read any of the ground at all, 6- got distracted by some people and didn't have a plan at all, just ran and didn't even read that I had to cross the path, then panicked once I realised and wasted even more time in the circle.
Decided I needed to calm down so took a good bearing to 7, crossing the path perfectly in line and then just couldn't find it whatsoever, it felt too far from the ditch and path but I just couldn't read the contours. I ran around the entire slope for about 10-15 mins, then started shaking as I was so nervous and knew that I had messed it up completely. Decided to walk up the slope thinking about missing 7 out, then found the path junction and then walked to 7 as I wanted to actually see where it was. Took me about 24 mins to find 7. Then walked up the hill to 8 but started shaking even more and started throwing up lots of water. I was mentally gone by then and felt so sick, so I walked back to the finish whilst continuing to throw up along the way.
Feeling extremely mentally drained at the moment. Now its time to assess what went wrong and why, and to mentally prepare for tiomila.

C • Get well soon 4

WU

York Uni selection race sprint.
Did awful, wasn't running quick enough and messed up #9- took the wrong route choice anyways and then faffed around and got stuck in a courtyard thing and didn't know where I was. Awful written all over it... BOF chances and that are probs completely gone now :)

sunny <3