Training Log Archive: bradc

Shattered, so made it a nice easy day. Gorgeous weather. Drove 10 mins to Castle Tioram - amazing setting - and walked around the Silver Walk and over the Three tarns walk to make it a 2hr30 loop. B's side troubling her, so a fairly gentle stroll - although Jamie seems awfully heavy in the backpack!

Our wedding O event. Such a glorious day that we couldn't resist going out and having a wee go at our own event! Set off with the missus and jogged gently to #6, at which point I sped up a bit and went off on the rest of the course myself. Running OK, a bit tired (on my feet all day yesterday!) and the sole of my left foot was a bit sore (those hired shoes) but it was fun. Can't believe how lucky we were with the weather! Fab weekend all round :-)

C • aye man it certainly was a ... 5

Event: Tiomila 2008
 

Gentle wedding-morning jog up to the Gathering Stane with Jase, Janine and Marcus. No butterflies :-)

C • congratulations.. 2

C • Event.... 3

Managed to lose several million brownie points by jetting off with Jase & KD to run the World Schools middle course on the evening before my wedding with lots of my relatives getting in B's hair back in the house, but I really did need to clear my noggin after the stress of the day and scrabbling my speech together in ~1 hour of frantic brain-dumping.
Great fun, tootled around, a bit scrappy but, hey, fab to be out and Barr Wood is always brill. The new area was gorse-tastic. Grand job, Steve.

Jogged to the start of the Whangie Whizz fell race, and then had a wee jog off afterwards

Whangie Whizz hill race. 21st/112. Nick B won in 29:06, JamieS 2nd in 29:41, Ange taking it easy in 13th (1st lady), 32:44; JonX and Jase 27th & 28th in 34:22 and 34:32 respectively.

Results go up super-fast on scottishhillracing.co.uk - cheers, Chris!

Nice and sunny after the rain, so whilst it was well boggy in parts, at least we could see where we were going. I made the mistake of not being near the front of the field at the start and as a result was boxed in for much of the 'out' route; I was feeling as if I could have gone a bit faster but simply couldn't get past people. By the time it opened out a bit, we were already in muddy terrain all chopped up by livestock, and I was a bit pants in that stuff, to be honest - I wasn't relaxed, and got knocked out of my stride lots of times. Jase was right with me at the turning point (and JonX not far behind) and I thought that my goose was cooked. I managed to get into a slow but steady rhythm on the climb back up the hill, though, and pulled away a little. Despite sliding and falling over a couple of times on the way off I managed to stretch that lead a little further on the route back to the finish.

So, I was happy with the time considering my lack of training, and considering that my goal for the year is just to get out and enjoy the process of regaining some fitness. I was miles off Ross's 2007 time, of course; that'll be my target for 2009!

Gosh it was good to be out racing again :-))

C • good to see a happy hill ru... 5

Test ran the post-wedding 'long' course on Beccy's map-in-progress, which has caused far more stress than any of the wedding planning over the past months. Whose idea was it to put on an O event the day after the wedding, and to extend the Laigh Hills map up to our house?! Madness!!! Anyway...
methinks it is somewhat short. So we need to make it a bit longer and a bit more difficult. But the map isn't even finished yet. And we have to get it to Steve tomorrow. Oh. Dear. We're stuffed.
On the positive side, my nice new trail shoes (as recommended by Ian of Ultrasport) were great, and I felt as if I was bouncing along.

C • 7km seems long enough to me 8

Gentle warm down, checking out the route through the primary school. Not that I'm suggesting anyone should run through it, of course.