Training Log Archive: jonny crickmore

Somedays some exercise and fresh air can help a hangover. This was not one of those days. Sweaty and humid made it horrid.

Found a big hill and some awesome single track. Very successful run. Very hot.

IW

Feeling surprisingly okay. One tight hamstring and some fatigue.

Meadows with James, Peter and Laura. Struggling. Happy to get big miles last 2 days as off to Barcelona for weekend with non runners.

Tapering now anyways.

Easy to Decathlon to pick up a couple of things

Ran to Hillend from Uni. Wearing my new racing vest. Big fan of it. Taking it nice and easy and feeling okay. Stopped to look at descent on the way down.

Caerketton Hill race.

Not overly looking forward to this as knew it was going to hurt bad as it is so short. Saw Espie (Won last year) and Tom Martyn so knew was going to be fast. Those two set off in the lead and I tried to hang on. Then Liam came past and was like gotta hang on here. Bit of a better line and got back into 3rd. Managed to run all the climb and actually felt okay. About 15/20sec down at top. This stayed the same from Hillend to Caerketton. Got a bit back from Caerketton to Hillend then it got steep. In that 1 minute I caught Tom and went straight past him and got within 5m of Espie.

Turns out he is also a very good descender so I was just hanging on through the gorse bushes. I knew there was a steep grassy bit just before finish so I got there and went horribly fast (avg 2:25min/km for last 500m). Nearly decked it bad but stayed on my feet and was all out sprinting for the line. Had got the gap though and my jelly legs managed to make it there.

Felt really good to feel good racing and do some exciting head to head racing.

I also managed to get the course record which was awesome.

Strava analyis says I wa 30sec down on record pace at the top. Then got 45sec back on the descent. On the steep bit I ran same pace as the downhill only record. Lost fair bit of time on the flat bit though as was tired. Might be a record I will have to go for though.

C • very cool 5

Run home

AS en route to shop. Hot hot hot

Tried to get up AS and back to meet Peter at Meadows pavillion as quickly as possible. 11:15 from my house to summit. Garmin hadn't located properly so no strava segments :(

Well the initial plan was Ben Nevis from the south via CMD arete. Except we definitely were not going to be doing that very easily so decided on an easy route down the Glen.

Shoulders ridiculously tight as the heavy bag was taking it's toll.

Got to Fort William as it started tipping it down and then spent 2 hours in Spoons eating a lot of food.


In hindsight we maybe tried to do too much for our first trip. Still in general good fun but quite a lot of low points at times. Mostly due to weather.