Training Log Archive: olsoranIn the 30 days ending Apr 30, 2018:
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Monday Apr 30, 2018 #
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Mode switch back to running now.
Trail / Terrain Run 43:00 [3] 7.02 km (6:08 / km) +148m 5:32 / km
Aboyne Academy Run Club - 10 out.
A really rude running awakening. Up the Tarland Way to Balnagowan then chasing the group led by EM and JG round the previous weeks O course. Really struggling, particularly at the beginning, but it got slightly better once vaguely warmed up - but ultimately heavy legged from last week. Lovely loops in nice sunshine though.
A really rude running awakening. Up the Tarland Way to Balnagowan then chasing the group led by EM and JG round the previous weeks O course. Really struggling, particularly at the beginning, but it got slightly better once vaguely warmed up - but ultimately heavy legged from last week. Lovely loops in nice sunshine though.
Sunday Apr 29, 2018 #
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Travelling
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Tracking first and lastt few legs of Tio. D 4th on 1st. Tyrving 13th.
Saturday Apr 28, 2018 #
Road Bike 3:54:24 [3] 87.1 km (2:41 / km) +1278m 2:30 / km
Mallorca #7:
Lots of road restrictions because of the 312 so stuck to close to Pollenca. Good choice in great weather but somewhat more leisurely day.
Lovely switchback road out to Cap de Formentor lighthouse, then to Cala de Sant Vicenc for lunch. Took the backroads to Alcudia and then the coast road to Ermita de la Victoria for more sustenance....plenty of climbing today.
Just five of us today ( AC, SS, DM, TT).
Another good day and a great end to a top week.
703 km in 7 days.
Lots of road restrictions because of the 312 so stuck to close to Pollenca. Good choice in great weather but somewhat more leisurely day.
Lovely switchback road out to Cap de Formentor lighthouse, then to Cala de Sant Vicenc for lunch. Took the backroads to Alcudia and then the coast road to Ermita de la Victoria for more sustenance....plenty of climbing today.
Just five of us today ( AC, SS, DM, TT).
Another good day and a great end to a top week.
703 km in 7 days.
Friday Apr 27, 2018 #
Road Bike 4:56:28 [3] 119.3 km (2:29 / km) +1172m 2:22 / km
Mallorca #6:
Orient Take 2
Back to less blustery weather so unfinished business over the Coll d'Honor to sort. Lunch at Bunyola and then cake and coke stop at caves at Campanet on the way back. Down to just the five of us (AT, SM, SS, AC) for the complete loop. Really nice route round through Orient btut pretty weary by the end.
Orient Take 2
Back to less blustery weather so unfinished business over the Coll d'Honor to sort. Lunch at Bunyola and then cake and coke stop at caves at Campanet on the way back. Down to just the five of us (AT, SM, SS, AC) for the complete loop. Really nice route round through Orient btut pretty weary by the end.
Thursday Apr 26, 2018 #
Road Bike 3:59:00 [3] 97.4 km (2:27 / km) +618m 2:23 / km
Mallorca #5:
Petra for lunch and back
Rest day.....not
Strong blustery headwind on the way back. Shot to pieces and need a lie down. Sugar bonk.
Petra for lunch and back
Rest day.....not
Strong blustery headwind on the way back. Shot to pieces and need a lie down. Sugar bonk.
Road Running 15:58 [3] 3.0 km (5:19 / km) +2m 5:18 / km
Pootle along the sea front after a snooze and chocolate. Bit of a gesture to keep the hand in. Tipped it over 100k for the day.
Not fluent or on top of the game but intact apart from all over knackerdness.
Not fluent or on top of the game but intact apart from all over knackerdness.
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018 #
Road Bike 3:53:08 [3] 105.7 km (2:12 / km) +488m 2:09 / km
Mallorca #4:
Change of plans after mechanical to one of the groups bikes. Turned around near Bunyola to head to bike shop in Binissalem. Lunched then back to Puerto Pollensa.
No ill effects after climb of yesterday. No serious aches or pains so all good.
Change of plans after mechanical to one of the groups bikes. Turned around near Bunyola to head to bike shop in Binissalem. Lunched then back to Puerto Pollensa.
No ill effects after climb of yesterday. No serious aches or pains so all good.
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018 #
Road Bike 4:47:55 [3] 106.7 km (2:42 / km) +1959m 2:28 / km
Mallorca #3:
Sa Colobra from Puerto Pollenca
Good one.
47 mins for Sa Colobra minus the two stops behind tourist buses. Call it 90s for the sake of it. Perhaps 45.30 ish. Well pleased.
Sa Colobra from Puerto Pollenca
Good one.
47 mins for Sa Colobra minus the two stops behind tourist buses. Call it 90s for the sake of it. Perhaps 45.30 ish. Well pleased.
Monday Apr 23, 2018 #
Road Bike 5:12:08 [3] 134.8 km (2:19 / km) +1039m 2:14 / km
Mallorca #2:
Randa return from Puerto Pollenca
Excellent day
Randa return from Puerto Pollenca
Excellent day
Sunday Apr 22, 2018 #
Road Bike 1:58:00 [3] 52.7 km (2:14 / km) +209m 2:12 / km
Mallorca #1:
Post flight warmup
Post flight warmup
Friday Apr 20, 2018 #
Trail / Terrain Run 31:26 [3] 4.61 km (6:49 / km) +119m 6:02 / km
shoes: Roclite 295
Cracking evening.
Round the favourite local loop with a visiting K. Shorts and sun on the back. Potties wood in brilliant shape and the paths of the race route great to run on. Masses of primroses in the field and shadowy early evening views from Torquhandallohy to die for, even if the fields roundabout have been ploughed...shan't be heading through them for a while.
Round the favourite local loop with a visiting K. Shorts and sun on the back. Potties wood in brilliant shape and the paths of the race route great to run on. Masses of primroses in the field and shadowy early evening views from Torquhandallohy to die for, even if the fields roundabout have been ploughed...shan't be heading through them for a while.
Thursday Apr 19, 2018 #
Trail / Terrain Run 1:04:00 [3] 9.2 km (6:57 / km) +250m 6:07 / km
shoes: Roclite 295
Potties before the bracken takes hold. Wandering about - a few loops. Felt pretty good once warmed up. Will try and keep some of the lesser used tracks open over the summer.
Tuesday Apr 17, 2018 #
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(rest day)
DOMS today. The lack of running showing after yesterdays hills.
Easy week before, no doubt, a tough one next week.
Easy week before, no doubt, a tough one next week.
Monday Apr 16, 2018 #
Trail / Terrain Run 1:27:56 [3] 14.42 km (6:06 / km) +446m 5:17 / km
shoes: Roclite 295
Somewhat tired from biking/digging etc but fancied out on a nice afternoon.
Nice and steady up Corybeg and across to Lamahip feeling better than expected but not helped by cake in the stomach. Nice run back down the mown heather path before returning by way of Bogieshiel and the back of Ballogie House. Nice and felt pretty good.
Nice and steady up Corybeg and across to Lamahip feeling better than expected but not helped by cake in the stomach. Nice run back down the mown heather path before returning by way of Bogieshiel and the back of Ballogie House. Nice and felt pretty good.
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First tick of the year yesterday. ? Got it in the garden maybe :-(
Sunday Apr 15, 2018 #
Road Bike 1:49:16 [3] 47.1 km (2:19 / km) +556m 2:11 / km
Sun, shorts, cycle, nice.
Late start due to more digging (and ceilidh and CG marathon watching last night).
Nice run out and felt good throughout.
Marywell, Potties, Shooting Greens, Bridge of Feugh, AA box, Finzean, Forest of Birse, Cordedardar.
Late start due to more digging (and ceilidh and CG marathon watching last night).
Nice run out and felt good throughout.
Marywell, Potties, Shooting Greens, Bridge of Feugh, AA box, Finzean, Forest of Birse, Cordedardar.
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No sign of life in the S household as I went through Finzean. Think they might have had a late night. :-)
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More digging after the bike. Shot now.
Saturday Apr 14, 2018 #
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Got to count as loads of S&C. Digging lots and manually handli g more stones.
Thursday Apr 12, 2018 #
Road Bike 2:21:29 [3] 57.16 km (2:29 / km) +770m 2:19 / km
Aboyne; Tarland; Queens View; the loop through Cushnie; Lumphanan, Torphins and home. Nice morning. Lumpy loop but felt ok.
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More moving of "huge great boulders".
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018 #
Trail 48:00 [3] 8.0 km (6:00 / km) +180m 5:24 / km
shoes: Mudclaw 300 b/r
Loop around Craigmore and Torqu. Not much energy. Took a look at the "improved" path down from the cairn. See whether that lasts.
No energy and bit of a plod.
No energy and bit of a plod.
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Shifting boulders. Well, pretty large stones anyway.
Monday Apr 9, 2018 #
Road Bike 4:16:21 [3] 100.3 km (2:33 / km) +1522m 2:23 / km
Corsedardar Memorial; Finzean; Knockburn; Slug; Auchenblae; Drumtochty Glen; Clattering Brig (well received sustenance); a 12k loop via Fettercairn to warm back up after the stop before heading over the Cairn and home via Strachan and Shooting Greens. Big effort needed over the Cairn but generally felt pretty good. Dry and very pleasant.
Sunday Apr 8, 2018 #
Trail / Terrain Run 56:00 [3]
SOL 2 at Linn of Tummel
Bit low at 2 but nothing of great note lost there.
Straight to the crag at 5 no kite; circled a little being thoroughly confused; looked back at the crag and there it was. Absolutely no idea why I didn't see it immediately. 90s+
Safe enough through 11 then unbelievably too low at 12 - 2 mins. Clean through all the rest - perhaps some minor hesitations.
Only really that one miss at 12 - enjoyable run out in good weather on a lovely area. 2nd 60, 3rd 55/60.
Somewhat disappointed we only had the one challenging leg of note, 10-11. Happy with the fitness just now....need to eliminate the 1-2 errors each race though.
Bit low at 2 but nothing of great note lost there.
Straight to the crag at 5 no kite; circled a little being thoroughly confused; looked back at the crag and there it was. Absolutely no idea why I didn't see it immediately. 90s+
Safe enough through 11 then unbelievably too low at 12 - 2 mins. Clean through all the rest - perhaps some minor hesitations.
Only really that one miss at 12 - enjoyable run out in good weather on a lovely area. 2nd 60, 3rd 55/60.
Somewhat disappointed we only had the one challenging leg of note, 10-11. Happy with the fitness just now....need to eliminate the 1-2 errors each race though.
Warm up/down 10:00 [3]
Saturday Apr 7, 2018 #
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Garden stuff
Friday Apr 6, 2018 #
Trail / Terrain Run 25:00 [3] 3.5 km (7:09 / km)
Community path; Torqu and gently home. Tired from the bike yesterday.
Thursday Apr 5, 2018 #
Road Bike 3:13:54 [3] 84.05 km (2:18 / km) +809m 2:12 / km
Nice spin round South West Aberdeenshire.
Torphins; Tornaveen; Tarland;Logie Coldstone; Ballater and home. Mostly lovely bright sunshine but plenty snow about.
Coffee and cake at BS cafe.
Generally felt pretty good but with slight right knee niggle.
Torphins; Tornaveen; Tarland;Logie Coldstone; Ballater and home. Mostly lovely bright sunshine but plenty snow about.
Coffee and cake at BS cafe.
Generally felt pretty good but with slight right knee niggle.
Wednesday Apr 4, 2018 #
Turbo 1:37:10 [3] 40.25 km (2:25 / km) +841m 2:11 / km
Sleeting outside; dry inside; no brainer
Zwifting; Hilly loop
After two days of rest felt reasonably good but find it hard to tell when on the turbo.
Zwifting; Hilly loop
After two days of rest felt reasonably good but find it hard to tell when on the turbo.
Tuesday Apr 3, 2018 #
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Travelling
Monday Apr 2, 2018 #
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Bit of a disappointing JK all round for me.
Sprint was ok, 5th, but still there were quite a lot of seconds lost; Middle, 8th and lots of quickest splits but made a poor route choice to go high on a leg which meant that going down the right re-entrant was more of a challenge - fail; Long - missed at one of the simplest controls on the course (13) - was it the map colour or was it mud?
Running quickly enough - navigation not consistent and not up to scratch.
Weather not great; areas not great; performances not great :-( . There's another race next weekend and plenty of other targets this year. :-)
Sprint was ok, 5th, but still there were quite a lot of seconds lost; Middle, 8th and lots of quickest splits but made a poor route choice to go high on a leg which meant that going down the right re-entrant was more of a challenge - fail; Long - missed at one of the simplest controls on the course (13) - was it the map colour or was it mud?
Running quickly enough - navigation not consistent and not up to scratch.
Weather not great; areas not great; performances not great :-( . There's another race next weekend and plenty of other targets this year. :-)
Sunday Apr 1, 2018 #
Warm up/down 10:00 [3]
shoes: Mudclaw 300 b/r
Warm up with JW and on own.
Orienteering race 1:10:00 [3]
JK Day 3 - Beaudesart
Bit of a missed opportunity and somewhat disappointing.
Missed 1 min in the green at 3 then reasonably ok through 12 ....then was looking for a thicket amongst the ditches at 13 but it was a clearing. Don't know if it was the map colours or what - but seemed a bit of a colour blindness issue, - and the ditches were lost under either the brashings or other forest workings. I wasn't in a good place...realised what was what what just as I was caught 6 mins by KT. That was a bit of a shock but promptly led him through 14 and dropped him some way back through 15 and 16. He caught me again at 17 where we both significantly overshot. Together for 18 and 19 then he disappeared up a different track on the long leg to 20, where I had the quickest split. Struggled through the remainder with KT finished about a minute later.....he had the last laugh by finishing 2nd overall though :-(
Lost in the order of 10 mins...not good.
Oh for Deeside forests...this was muddy, brashed grot.
Bit of a missed opportunity and somewhat disappointing.
Missed 1 min in the green at 3 then reasonably ok through 12 ....then was looking for a thicket amongst the ditches at 13 but it was a clearing. Don't know if it was the map colours or what - but seemed a bit of a colour blindness issue, - and the ditches were lost under either the brashings or other forest workings. I wasn't in a good place...realised what was what what just as I was caught 6 mins by KT. That was a bit of a shock but promptly led him through 14 and dropped him some way back through 15 and 16. He caught me again at 17 where we both significantly overshot. Together for 18 and 19 then he disappeared up a different track on the long leg to 20, where I had the quickest split. Struggled through the remainder with KT finished about a minute later.....he had the last laugh by finishing 2nd overall though :-(
Lost in the order of 10 mins...not good.
Oh for Deeside forests...this was muddy, brashed grot.