Training Log Archive: Magic

ShUOC circuits. Rare (only?) appearance by camel this evening, will it become a habit? Took it easy myself, especially on the cardio exercises. Not many around so very relaxed - MikeS cried off with some excuse or other.

C • My excuse 6

Event: British Relays
 

BEOC Relays, Mens premier with ShUOC, third leg with Will and Danger. Will was a bit wiped out from yesterday but had a steady run, Danger must have pulled up a few places as I only saw Dave Peel and we finished 6th overall, decent but not great result, but we were never going to be challenging for the top. Tired but not exhausted and again was feeling stronger as the course went on, also found the map much easier to interpret today, especially the fine detail.
Looking through the results 4 of the top 6 teams had identical gaffeling throughout the whole relay ? how poor is that on the part of the controller??? (and a bit unfair to the two teams who had to go there own way!)

Warm up, forgot to warm down.

Event: British Long Champs
 

BEOC Classic, Culbin. Scrappy race technically (far too many mistakes) but happy with the way I ran physically after the past few weeks. Stated off slow as I didn?t want to die again, but didn?t get into the interpretation of the fine detail at all and lost 45 seconds at both 2 and 3 and a further two minutes at 8 when Nails caught me 6 minutes (somewhat annoyed there as I found a control on a feature that was obscured by the control circle ? this is turning to a pet hate of mine and a common cause of lost time, and the most frustrating thing is how easy it is to cut the circle). Didn?t try and stay with Nails and bumbled along for the next few km before realising that I was actually feeling good and should actually run harder. Finished feeling strong and with plenty of energy but with another two minutes lost in the green. Great area for running, very clean and fast and straight was great. Amazing time from OJ, but wish that I had been a bit closer.

M21E - Splits

Long drive north for BEOC.

Headed up to Redmires to run along to High Neb in the snow, but there was harrdly any up there and none further into the Peaks - it all fell on the eastern slopes. Enough around to be very wet and get cold feet though. Did a loop through the forest at the start which was more open than I was expecting, was completely energyless from yesterdays short run though.

C • oi you 4

SYO Spring cup in Tankersley. Despite an easy few days I still had no real strength and was starting to find the course a long way. A few scrappy mistakes but mostly okay and I can still run at an okay pace but it just feels wrong. OJ, Craney and Nails around in just over 40.

Warm up around the woods with Danger.

Very gentle warm down with Camel and Danger.

1.5 hours at the Works. Haven't been in weeks and mt hands are now sore and my fingers tired. Managed a few blacks before Chris so happy with that :)

C • Workout for the Caelidh next week 6

C • Back to black 1