Training Log Archive: Peds

WU

Scottish Hill Champs.

Grim. Well I'm glad I finished even if it was just for the view.

Off the start it felt faster than I'd have liked and the main pack of people I'd have hoped to be near got a little gap. Closed up a bit on James and Ruaridh on the tarmac road 3k in, still feeling nicely in control, and with a decent gap behind. As soon as we hit some uphill gradients though I started to go backwards, legs just had nothing, quads especially. Maybe they got ruined by the 400m of descending on gravel track at 3:00s right at the start. Scout Adkin came past, and then Holly Page and couldn't stick with them, and so was already starting to think quite negatively and couldn't trick myself I was just saving something for the big climb.

Remember thinking that I probably had at least 2 x the seat left in terms of uphill and strongly considered dropping out, and wondered if there was something wrong with me. Had some walking breaks for the first time but the quads felt even wobblier walking than running. HR was back down approaching easy run levels but just couldn't move my legs. Anyway, plodded on, getting overtaken by Cat Graves and plenty others, and then about 1k from the top turned round and saw Grace closing in, so staying ahead of her became the goal. Managed a return to jogging and held on, and once at the top the views were very nice indeed.

Still felt a bit like passing out for a few mins after but got going on the downhill and had maybe slightly improved by the bottom, only to be fully revived by Stirling maccies a couple hours later.

C • Offended 2

Jog back down

Triple links, feeling good.

Easy meadows with spud.

Little bit of core

WU

Polmaise

WD

Hanging controls for the taster session. Cut it a bit fine so slightly faster than it would have been.

Small taper hills session on Galloping Glen with AJ.
4 x 2mins, 2 x 1min, 2 x 30s, with fairly quick recoveries, especially the 2mins. Legs not feeling the best though, just a bit heavy and sluggish, and was a few metres behind AJ on most of the reps. 30s felt slightly better.

Just the core, no legs

With Felix (and robbie for a bit) for the first 5 or so of his 20 miles on the seat. Pretty warm and sweaty but other than that very enjoyable and felt fine pre brekkie. Forgot HRM so guessed the zones.

Hour of tennis with Davros, very nice to play again for the first time in a few years. Serving well, but lots of unforced errors in general still. Lost 6 - 4.

MMMM, legs heavy and a little tight but otherwise feeling in pretty good shape after yesterday.

14.8k, +230m, 23.3kph
Couple seat laps on a beautiful afternoon. Legs feeling alright and going decently up the climbs, out the saddle all the way up.