Training Log Archive: bradc

CSC Final, Brown: 10.3 +380m. Longest I've run for a very long time, and it showed. I was OK for the first part of the course, 7k to #7, just one bracken-induced 90s fluff en route, but was steady rather than fast, and had to avoid the road options on the long legs (particularly 1-2) because I knew it'd kill my back. Had a nightmare at #11, just couldn't make things fit looking for the ditch junction just through a patch of green; lost ages, 8 minutes, race blown. Then I started to struggle, not because of my back seizing (good dosage of pain killers & brufen beforehand) but simply due to very poor fitness; my R hamstring began cramping (partly nerve-related, perhaps, it's the damaged one) at #15 and I just imploded thereafter. Crawled up the hill to #16 and jogged/walked thereafter. No reason other than that I can't and don't train to run for more than 35-45 minutes once or twice a week. A bit humbling, really, but that's the reality and I'm stuck with it.
All in all an inauspicious outing. Pleased that my "run" didn't have to count. TRIMP 212.6

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Event: BASOC Highland WOLF
 

Soggy splash around Parkend Wood, at a training event courtesy of NGOC. Managed to arrive just at the end of a biblical downpour, and thus persuaded myself to go out. Lots of scrabbling to find controls in hidden pits - not auguring well for tomorrow :-(. TRIMP 82.4.

Another grabbed opportunity for a run from S&T's house, before travelling to Dorset. Feeling better than Sunday, surprised to be slower. Dreadfully unfit. TRIMP 57.2.