Training Log Archive: Lard

Arrived in Poland for JWOC.
Got out the car and ran....

Muggy.

A run out the back.
Legs much happier running on soft ground.

JWOC tomorrow....

C • Jase, good luck next week ... 3

A road run to try out the calfs.
Guess what..... tight as after 2k.

Time to take up fell running and stick to what I love the most, orienteering (and pies).

So much for the 5 hour training weekend.

Pathetic.

Run from home up to Gathering Stone mid-afternoon (a brief respitein childminding).

Feeling tight, heavy legged and unable to get HR up. Should be fine for a 5 hour weekend!

A run with Ross (and a bit with Abi and Louise) at Carron valley.
It was meant to be a good tempo track run session to get in a longish run and work the legs.
Ross working me hard (or me not wanting to go easy) until we ran out of track towards Miekle Bin and fought through forest till we popped out into plantation and realised we needed to back out.
Headed back for home but whilst chatting we missed our track turn-off and didn't realise we were climbing again until the track ran out.
Like all wise men we decided to keep going, and going, and going.
Till it was fight and then felled. Both of us tried to fight through the windblow and despite shouting for each other for ages we got split up.
Both of us trying to escape from hell whilst trying to work out what we'd say to our other halfs.
I managed to find a wall which took me back to safety, Ross found another wall and by sheer coincidence we appeared at a random track junction at the same time.
Hugs and shouts all round and then traipsed musingly back to car and raced back to dinner in Stirling.
Oh what fun!

C • What a pair of Muppets! 2

Sore legs from the weekend's roads - not sure about this road running lark - thinking of training for the Ochil 2000s instead....
Will give it one more week and if calfs not improving.... back onto the soft stuff and hills and byebye Marathon plans....

Can't say I'm that upset about it.....

Hard massage from Janine tonight, calf bellies sore and ITB's murder!

Same as yesterday but on my own, got a bit lost near the end so ran extra and waited longer at lights....
Calfs not happy with all this tarmac - sod 'em.

Flight delayed on way home - bed at 1:30am - poor, poor Matthew!

A run with Rainer (like Rhiner) along both sides of the Rhine enjoying the sights.... At 50 minute 10 pace or a bit easier.

Off to Cologne to see Liz for a long weekend of debauched gorging and drinking.

WEE at Laigh Hills and Dunblane planned by Rog.
A great course, if not a bit far, which took us into the newly mapped woods behind the house. Fab!
Sore and tired from yesterday's road run so started steady and stayed steady - took me ages to catch and pass Neil Kitchen 2 minutes!

No real misses, had to move a control for Rog in Ochlochy park (muppet).
Not suprised to hear Will thashed me with 44. Jon on 52, but then he's training hard.

C • You think 6.5km is long.... 2

Road run from work.
Suffered the first four minutes and then got into it.
Had to stop for a train at Cambuskenneth!
Going OK but right achilles twinging and left calf went very tight on me after 8k - got a long way to go!

Into work from minibus drop-off.

Biked home from work, steady (if you can call it that up the Glen Road).

Macclesfield Town Sprint Prologue.
New map by Tom - I liked it, only one prob where I hunted for a control in the bus station, like many others - minor map correction needed.
Running well.

Macclesfield Sprint Final.
A fairly easy estate so ended up being cross country speed full on all the way. Tried to hold Kris off 4 minutes but failed round the 1:2k part in the school - boy going well.
A nice blast but too easy to call it orienteering.

For all sessions.


Long drive back to Scotland....

Event: MDOC Town and Country Weekend
 

Training at Macc Forest, planned by Tom Fellbaum. I hung parts of the courses - two short mass start relay sim courses with plenty of gaffles. Terrain mainly very runnable and most enjoyable.

Middle race at Macc Forest (the better bit).
Was knackered before I started, didn't like the big climb to 1, the lack of detailed mapping at 2, the poor veg mapping at 3, and so on..... A great area let down by a poor standard map. Later on I was poor standard too. hence miles back from the boys.

Pre-JWOC Camp in Cheshire.
Drove to Walton Chaser land to try do some relevant Poland training on Brereton Spurs. A bit too brackeny to be perfectly Polish but good all the same. Did the collecting and runs between the two middle practice sessions.

Many thanks to Iain Stamp (SI hanger) and Cath Stodgehill (SI results guru) and WCH for use of the area (courses cut short to avoid a Buzzard ie more common than pigeons in Scotland).

Dropped the team off on the way back so they could enjoy the hills, rockas and views of the Roaches back to Gradbach Hostel (full of pesky kids).

Pre-JWOC Camp - Gradbach Youth Hostel near Macclesfield.

Got let down on an Edinburgh minibus so had to hire one quickly in Stirling at great expense. Thankfully it went faster than 62 mile an hour and was a cooler looking 9 seater mercedes.

4pm leave, 10pm arrival.....

FVO WEE at Polmaise.
Loving the new map and ability to weave your way through the rhodies.
No great misses, running OK, but taking it steady in the slippyness.
I won!
Followed by fab grub at the Portcullis.

A wee run at Sauchie to check out further mapping.
Parked at far end and ran in and along the crag foot round the reservoir - most of it not worth the cost of mapping - but some fabby boulders here and there.
We now know where the full new extension will go, just need Marcus to come up now....

Managed to avoid the thunder and lightning, just. Didn't manage very successfully to meet up with Steve B or Rog. Another time.

Recovery run, done on the roads.
Left ITB snagging - masseuse tonight....

A long run was requested by Jules (taking part in a Swaledale 23 miler next weekend) so off we went, with Rog (tired from a 3 hour Munro bag yesterday) to Dumyat via the Gathering Stone and Clan Monument up the back way. Jules bounding along (again!) and me and Rog suffering but holding our own. Had to do a wee loop of the back woods to make sure we bagged 20k and the 2 hour time - I wasn't feeling too bad at the end - shame I don't feel like this when it's on road!

A hilly run with Jules Simpson (up for the weekend) around Wallace Monument/Abbey Craig. Visited all the tracks to make up several hilly loops from bottom to top. Jules too fit for me....

Terrain run with Rog to check out further map extension at Doune.
Not as much as we'd like but enough to make a bigger map...
Both tired and weary (of each other;-).

FVO WEE at Hermitage, Stirling Uni.
Actual distance 7.16k.
Wet and hilly, just trying to work it and stay on two feet. Tried to go straight too often and am therefore throbbing with nettle stings.
Visited some new bits of wood which was nice....