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Training Log Archive: graeme

In the 30 days ending Nov 30, 2012:

activity

time

miles

Running

20:54:49

136.1

(9:13)

219.03

(5:44)

Orienteering

5:38:15

35.6

(9:30)

57.29

(5:54)

Cycling

2:55:00

16.0

(10:56)

25.75

(6:48)

Total

29:28:04

187.7

(9:25)

302.07

(5:51)

2:40

0:00

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Friday Nov 30, 2012 #

Running 9:00 [2] 1.0 mi (9:00 / mi)

Run home.
Meant to go out later, but the heavens opened.

Thursday Nov 29, 2012 #

Running race 24:49 [5] 4.1 mi (6:03 / mi)

Beautiful cold day, ideal running conditions. Racing shoes and lenses, and slightly shaded the Meadows to prepare. Fastest time since March 2009!

Still got nailed by Jarvis on the sprint finish.

Running 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi)

Warm up & down

Wednesday Nov 28, 2012 #

Running 48:00 [2] 6.0 mi (8:00 / mi)

Seriously not-happening run round Craigmillar

Tuesday Nov 27, 2012 #

Running 1:15:00 [4] 8.0 mi (9:22 / mi)

Home drive with James to Lauder road (!) Meadows, lap, home.

Session: 5x1250 4:36 36 35 39 37

Nice evening. 4th rep wrecked by dog owner blocking the whole path with lead, then drifting further and further onto the grass as I tried to get by. Grr.

Monday Nov 26, 2012 #

Running (6.5) 50:00 [3] 6.5 mi (7:42 / mi)

Evening road run. Tollcross and the new exhibition Centre EICC, and all that stuff. Never been there before, nice at night. Should get it mapped (maybe murray already did?)

C • Nope 1

Sunday Nov 25, 2012 #

Orienteering race 1:12:58 [3] 8.6 mi (8:29 / mi)

Binning Wood SoSoL.
Time and the weather have not been kind to this area, and despite excellent planning to stay in the nice bits and focus on route choice it was still wet, cold, tough, wet and cold.
Funny run, lost 2mins on 1 (wrong track) and 2 (futzing in rhodos). plodding glumly, then got into it a bit before another 4-5 mins at 12. We'd been warned at the start that it was a bit greener around the control than the map showed. What they didn't say was that was because the flag was in the wrong place. Ho hum.

C • No.12 in the wrong place 3

Saturday Nov 24, 2012 #

Running 41:00 [5] 6.0 mi (6:50 / mi)

Dechmont XC. Quite possibly the first non-PW in the last 10 years. Results awaited..
Still got pipped by Jarvis at the end though :(

Friday Nov 23, 2012 #

Running 30:00 [3] 4.0 mi (7:30 / mi)

Hermitage 4 Meant to be a brisk sharpener. Actually felt flat. Its been a long week.

Thursday Nov 22, 2012 #

Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] 7.0 mi (8:34 / mi)

FWTN Buckstone.
Late decision to go, didn't have the big torch. Got about 200m before realising it was petzl pointless. Replanned a course in the streetlights checking out a few bits of googlemapping.

Launch of the new ISSOM map seemed to be well received - maybe 50% brown is too dark for streets. A small extension onto Mortonhall golf course gives much better angles for the inevitable run round the woods. Good planning by Alice Leake.

Wednesday Nov 21, 2012 #

Running 45:00 [3] 6.0 mi (7:30 / mi)

Nice stretch out around Craigmillar in the sunshine

Tuesday Nov 20, 2012 #

Running 1:20:00 [4] 8.0 mi (10:00 / mi)

Lab -> home -> meadows

5x1250 in 4:36 37 35 34 34 Trailing way back on AlastairH, watching AlexC fly by. Windy, with the occasional spurt of rain.

+lap

Monday Nov 19, 2012 #

Running 55:00 [3] 7.0 mi (7:51 / mi)

Monday run, finishing up the road in place of Observatory climb, a just in case on the knee.

Sunday Nov 18, 2012 #

Running 1:22:00 [3] 7.0 mi (11:43 / mi)

Pentlands run, with godders. contouring figure of 8 on Turnhouse and Carnethy.

Saturday Nov 17, 2012 #

Running race 19:00 [4] 3.0 mi (6:20 / mi)

Park run.
Missed the start after tramworks holdup. Joined in after 100m. Bugged out of the finish.
James set himself a target of 23 mins. 22.59. RESULT!

Orienteering 1:00:17 [3] 6.8 mi (8:52 / mi)

Colzium FVO club champs, Colzium.

Tricky, thorny little area. Quite fun but map hard to read even at 1:7500 and balance hard to keep.
James ran too. Green debut. Picked up LG map and ran that. Plank.

Orienteering 55:00 [1] 3.0 mi (18:20 / mi)

Futzing around in Colinton Dell mapping.

Friday Nov 16, 2012 #

Running 55:00 [3] 7.0 mi (7:51 / mi)

Monday run, finishing over the shoulder rather than up and down. Nice. Knee only hurt on descent from Observatory Rd.

Note

Left calf was sore this morning. Dare I hope it maybe actually did something?

Thursday Nov 15, 2012 #

Running 45:00 [3] 5.0 mi (9:00 / mi)

Blackford reps, light rain
2x 1 min
6 x 2:10
Weary, three days of reps is not ideal. Hope this knee unsores itself soon.

Wednesday Nov 14, 2012 #

Running 39:00 [3] 5.0 mi (7:48 / mi)

To Liberton, then 20 x ~200 starting each minute. Pissing rain, 40-45secs per rep). Lovely.

Tuesday Nov 13, 2012 #

Running intervals 1:10:00 [4] 7.0 mi (10:00 / mi)

Jog home, then a knee protecting drive to the meadows. short warm up,
4:34 35 35 35 41
Wet, not really up for it,
Rather off the pace from ALastair Hindle, Edel, Chloe, and comedy miles off Alex Carcas and Gillian Palmer

Lap, home. knee OK, which was the best thing.

Monday Nov 12, 2012 #

Running 37:00 [2] 4.5 mi (8:13 / mi)

Craigmillar. Not really happening today.

Sunday Nov 11, 2012 #

Orienteering 17:00 [2] 1.5 mi (11:20 / mi)

SEDS training course on polmaise. 1:10, no flags, vague features. Too hard for me. Abort

Orienteering 36:00 [3] 3.7 mi (9:44 / mi)

Polmaise green course. Nice. Knee a bit sore towards the end.

Saturday Nov 10, 2012 #

Running 1:20:00 [2] 6.0 mi (13:20 / mi)

Puttering about the braids watching real runners.

Cycling 25:00 [1] 4.0 mi (6:15 / mi)

To from Braids, as transport

Friday Nov 9, 2012 #

Running 40:00 [3] 5.0 mi (8:00 / mi)

Decent 4 mile section, and some soreknee walk/jog at the end. Craigmillar.

Thursday Nov 8, 2012 #

Running hills 45:00 [3] 5.0 mi (9:00 / mi)

3x1min
6x2:15
Blackford. No Kirsten and stiff headwind led to slow times. More seriously, knee didn't cope well with descents between reps. Should have walked slowly instead of staying with group.

Wednesday Nov 7, 2012 #

Running intervals 35:00 [3] 4.0 mi (8:45 / mi)

5 x 3mins on liberton playing field grass. 3 shod, 2 barefoot. Muddy.
Negligible warm up and down. Dangerous game at the moment, but knee wont cope with a warm up as well as a session.

Tuesday Nov 6, 2012 #

Running intervals 50:00 [3] 6.0 mi (8:20 / mi)

Funny old set to protect the knee.

Jog home from work, drive most of the way down, then 4x1km on the sodden grass (3:54 47 47 47) finishing up with a 1250 4:39, prttey good given high wind. Jog round, drive home.

Monday Nov 5, 2012 #

Running 40:00 [2] 5.0 mi (8:00 / mi)

Steady, Inch and Craigmillar. Sore.

Sunday Nov 4, 2012 #

Cycling 2:30:00 [2] 12.0 mi (12:30 / mi)

Made up numbers, MTB, which was surprisingly difficult once the left knee decided not to play.

Orienteering 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi)

testing

Saturday Nov 3, 2012 #

Running 1:30:00 [1] 3.0 mi (30:00 / mi)

Standing around jogging around Dalguise for the schools Selection races.
After almost of year of excitement, GHS S2 boys James, Freddie, Stuart, Calum and Seb missed out on School selection by a couple of minutes to a strong Oban trio. James got in as an individual, which he's rightly thrilled by. Of course, they could have won: Alex didn't run, as he had already decided not to go if selected. The boys took the disappointment with excellent grace, no sulking and we're very proud of them. Now we just need to find some other event to inspire them and keep it going.

Friday Nov 2, 2012 #

Orienteering 27:00 [3] 4.0 mi (6:45 / mi)

INT halloween score on the Meadows.

Thursday Nov 1, 2012 #

Running 50:00 [3] 5.0 mi (10:00 / mi)

Hill reps on Blackford. 4 x 1min 5 x 2min.
Despie a day off yesterday, knee now definitely sore, had to walk back down again.

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