Training Log Archive: Jon X

Home again and another glorious day - went for an evening leg stretch up Leckie and back across the fell below the crags.

In Sheffield on the way home so went for a pre-prandial potter up Porter Valley. Bumped into Pete Tryner on the way back, looked like he was running rather harder than me but luckily he was going the other way..

Last run from Croyde, round the headland and back across the beach. Had just finished a cream tea so run was quite leisurely!

Eden Project sprint race, much fun - pretty warm for the rainforest controls, was glad to get to the airy cool of the Mediterranean!

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With MC round the headland to meet the others on the beach, then back to the house after coffee!

With Anthony from house in Croyde, round Baggy Point headland and back from Putsborough Beach. Sunshine mmm.

Meant to jog...but the day turned foul....and then I heard Roger was resting....

JK Relay, Braunton Burrows. M120+ (combined with Men Open), first leg.

Frustrating! In a team with Brad and Jase, knew we needed to get a good start if we were to compete with the SYO teams (Al B, Dave P, Charlie A and Martin W, Chappers, Tim T) and the other FVO team (Roger, Gary, Marcus).

Didn't get off to the best start when I couldn't work out why we were going too far right off the start and so baled out to the left-most posse when I shouldn't have and lost 30secs - only afterwards did I realise this was because we did not mass start at the start triangle and the first bit was taped to it - doh!

Got into it well after that, helped by gaining some places at the common control with only one SI-unit at #3 (!). By almost halfway I was over a minute up on both SYO teams and on Roger but then missed #9 by a minute, hesitated at the end of the long leg to #10, and then spent over 2 mins very confused very near to #11 seeing Al and Roger run past whilst I was stood still and bemused. Ran pretty well after that but largely alone and finished 2 mins behind a huge M120+ posse including all 3 other teams on just over 37mins - amazingly none of them on my gaffle as that may have saved me at #11!

Brad missed early and ended up similar to me with 4/5 mins lost, so Jase just cruised round and we ended up way down - the other FVO team was 5th with SYO 1st and 2nd.