Training Log Archive: Craney

Event: HOC National Event, Brown Clee
 

Some of the long race til I blew up. I'm glad I didn't read the pre-race details as I might have felt a slight twinge of guilt as I continued crossing all of the fences regardless.

WOC sprint trial. Winning at #7 then the silliest mistake ever at #8 which cost me it. Route choice to #6 looks to have cost me 10secs. Other than that I ran really well, so on any other day I would've been really pleased with myself.

WOC middle trial. 7th, but was up in 3rd at #14. Very scrappy after that - probably as I was trying too hard and didn't feel like I was doing very well (in terms of mistakes and shape, I wasn't doing very well, but it looks like no-one else was). Should've done better. Can't say I enjoyed that course very much - it looks great on the map, just pants in real life.

Event: GBR WOC Selection Races (Middle and Sprint)
 

10x 90sec intervals (30secs rec) at lunchtime round Meanwood. Felt pretty good, got a decent comfortable pace going on. Drank too much coffee pre-run.

Before and after. Way too humid in the showers at work and still sweating as I got back to my desk despite having a cold shower.

Meanwood and the uni area after work. Found another burnt out car that I hadn't seen before.

Giving the achilles some recovery and trying to catch up on rest. After Grace's alarm got us up at 7.20am, I was eating my brekkie and commented to Grace how strange it was that both my watch and phone said it was 5.30am (thinking there'd been some weird clock-stopping power surge or something). She then realised her phone was on Latvian time and we'd gotten up 2 hours early. We laughed and laughed and laughed and went back to bed.

Got to bed at 4am just as it was getting light. Got up at 7.20am to go to work. Feeling a little jaded. Still partially deaf from the water park on Friday.