Training Log Archive: murraystraining

Easy run in the Pentlands. Flattish loop over Black Hill from Harlaw.

Didn't get very warm on the way to the Pleasance! Pretty driech day.

Edinburgh CityRace. Given injury, lack of fitness and only one weekend of sprinting in the last six months I decided to 'just run' this rather than focussing on anything specific. Slippy slidey conditions didn't help the racing focus either! I ran an OK race but lost time on #7 (couldn't find the way out the control west so faffed then went round the slower east side of Holland House) #8 (misinterpreted the start line message about a closed gate - I thought 'unmarked, locked gate' meant a gate that was not on the map which was locked, presumably near one which was ok - however it was a gate marked as open which was locked in practice. Marking this on the map in the start lane might have been a better idea!) and #23 (muppetry - ran around the wrong tower block). Happy to get the win and get round with knees intact-ish but Murray 2013 would have been 3+ minutes faster I think.

Home with an Instagram detour.

WoL loop. Plodding along.

Went to watch 'Source Code' but realised after two minutes that I'd already seen it. Fortunately I still had an hour until my rental of 'Into the Mind' expired so I just put that on and enjoyed it for a second time.

Trotter Training tempo reps. 6x1450m on a 6 minute cycle. Started at 5:01, 4:47 by the end. Comfortably fast but think I'd have struggled to hit the <4:30 average I've done this session in before.

Morgenjog - Murrayfield, Carrick Knowe, Kaimes Road, Corstorphine Hill, Ravelstone Dykes.

Into the Mind. Beautiful ski film by Sherpa Cinema/North Face. Rather than playing a drinking/training game just went with the flow of the film which worked really well. Good session, great film.

Pre-lunch meeting in the Dalkeith Road office so it would have been rude not to go for a run in the park. Warm up with a lap of the marching fields then 16x 60s up / 30s down from the duck pond round the trail outside the road to Dunsapie then up to the top.

Finally got round to setting up a DOMA rather than using picasa. Maps from the weekend are online now - about 750 older maps to follow once I manage to finish coding a bulk-uploader :)
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/doma/index.ph...
(I'm assuming 750 maps won't crash the SOA website - Paul Frost, are you reading?)

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Aha! Alpha Papa Spinning Fartlek. Sprint whenever someone swears or there was cheesy music playing.