Training Log Archive: murraystraining

CSC Brown course. Started a minute behind GG so I went out like a rocket to try and reel him in. Three fastest splits in the first 6 pulled in 12s and kept him in sight but a miss in the circle at 5 cancelled most of that out. Never saw him again after that and sadly had to do it all on my own. Missed 30s on 10 (went to hill to the left rather than the spur) and 30s on 15 (banana'ed a bit climbing the hill. OK apart from that but not up to GGs speed. Not bad for my first orienteering since WOC!

FRA Relay, Leg 2, paired with Don Naylor. A decent canter about Pendle Hill. Don was going fairly well at the start and we slowly reeled in Shettleston. We caught them just as Carnethy and Bingley came past but Don didn't have the legs for the steep climb and we dropped off a bit. We got a good rhythm up to the summit then Don flew off on the descent and suddenly it was me struggling to keep up with him! Happy to be only 4 minutes down on the fastest times, sad to get pipped by Shettleston despite reeling them in at half way.
Team dropped to 27th over the last couple of legs. Will be interesting to see what a full strength team can do next year - it's my aim to have a team strong enough that we don't need to call up Don again (I hope you're reading this Coombs, Doug, Hector et al.).

Lunsjogg. Felt like I was going faster than my watch said. Hermitage and Braid Hills Drive.

12x60s Castro hill reps w/Jonny. Going reasonably well.

Very gentle potter around Holyrood. Legs battered.

Signed up for Strava at last. This was a fairly poor run to start off with!

Tuesday railway. Just Coombs and myself and more of a 'tempo with a warm up' than a progression. Aerobically I felt fine but my legs were still pretty wrecked after the Skyline so decided not to push them too hard. Still pleased with the way they did respond though - I expected to get stuck at 3:45s.
4:21,12,00,3:52,47,46,38,47,33,35,35,33,34,30,25.
31:19/28:45.

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