Training Log Archive: kido

Such a shuffle. Right ankle quite painful for the first 100m but thankfully not further. Went along the canal, it's not as manky as I thought it would be further East.

Last and longest really long one before the race (aside from the long race next Friday, but hopefully that won't take me 3 hours). Around Ladybower, Derwent and Howden, then another lap of Ladybower, and a little bit more to make up the time.

Lovely morning for it - started off foggy and cool, but 13km it it lifted and was very sunny. Felt tired and stiff but loosened up a bit and cruised ok for most of it - slowing down in the last hour partly due to fatigue but also because that bottom loop around Ladybower is much hillier than the Derwent / Howden part. Still hope I don't fade so much in the race.

C • Wow 7

Slow easy one. Feeling stiff and sore today. This helped a bit.

Up Porter AGAIN. Felt stiff at the start but loosened up.

Rivelin loop run with Alice, turning down at Rivelin Dams and then back through the Stables. Tacked on a bit extra through Endcliffe park at the end. Mad that this run didn't really feel very long...

5 x 1km "Steady" / 800m "Float". Good session! Considering I felt rubbish in the warm up, this went surprisingly well. Felt pretty comfortable in the reps and the float recoveries were quick but felt easy.

Social Run Group - today we had no slow group people so I had to run at a reasonable pace for once! My body was not happy about it.

Day 2 of the Dales Weekend, today on Malham. This map has huge areas of limestone pavement, which is sort of like bare rock but with huge cracks in it - very deadly.

What a frustrating run. I'd hoped to improve on yesterday, but the course was less about using the interesting rock and contour detail and more about choosing the correct sequence of wall crossings (which I did not). I misread a cliff on the way to #3 as a crossing, and dropped 6 contours to get to it, before realising my mistake and having to climb back up a cliff to the actual crossing. I then made a meal of the rest of the leg, choosing several of the wrong crossings, and finally going up the wrong gully at the end of the leg.

My only real other mistakes were a poor route choice through the fence crossings on the ultra long leg to #10 - much too far left - and lost about 30s from poor compassing across the spur to #13.

Overall I felt tired and lost a lot of motivation after my debacle at 3. Got beaten by all the children in M18.

Long warm down tour of the Malham map to make up the miles. Hips and knees crying a bit by this point.