Training Log Archive: bradc

Event: TAY SOL3 Balkello
 

A new area, Balkello - mostly open moorland with areas of deep heather interspersed with some nicer runnability, and some old quarry workings to add detail.

Failed to warm up properly - OK, at all - and duly suffered the consequences, never really getting going. My legs were very slow and tired until two-thirds of the way round, after which I picked up from a slow trudge to a middling trudge; the HR tells it all!

Scrappy too: caught out by the transition from heathery uphill to runnable downhill, I ran well past #4 and lost ca 2m30s. Very cautious and hesitant on #10 (1 min), careless on #12 (90s), and poor route choice to #15. I could have saved about 5 minutes of the 10 that I was behind 1st (DaveR), and the rest was due to running speed - fair dinkums.

Sore heel afterwards... but scrumptious cheese scones in the tea shop took my mind off the discomfort :-)

Too nice an evening not to bunk off work early and go for a run. Parked up at the uni and trundled slowly around the fringe (Beta centre, Falcon and experimental gardens) before pootling up the Dumyat race route. Peeled off at the ridge and ran along to Pendreich reservoir; skirted that then back along the road. Very pleasant. Legs protesting at having been out for four runs in four days, albeit short and mostly easy ones - more practice required!

Really pushed for time today, but I wanted to get out to have a wee easy turn-over jog for my legs - so I squeezed in this half-hour pootle. Took the opportunity of taking it easy to explore some of the horse trails in the middle of the middle of the Easter Breich circuit; a bit lumpy, but dry as a bone and a wee change. Wouldn't be much fun after a few decent bursts of rain had turned the trails into proper mud, mind.

For our last visit to Touch for some time, James took us the upper part of the wood... which, in huge contrast to the lower part, is rough, tough and dangerous to know! Strangely I felt bouncy tonight and was well up for it. Shame I was rubbish for the first few, and hesitant elsewhere - and often got pushed off the line by the terrain, which doesn't suit my "run in a straight line and hope to fall over the control" technique! Really enjoyed it, though, excellent workout.

Late afternoon from the house - felt rubbish from the off, don't know why - really struggled to get up the hills and felt like barfing, despite going dead slow. HR way too high for the turgid pace. Altogether rather odd. Cut off early.
At least it didn't snow, like it did at lunchtime!