Training Log Archive: SarahD

Tech 10 #2 Balmedie brown. Plan was to focus on making it smooth without worrying about speed. In practice there was a quite a lot of dead running, so pushed more physically than I might have expected to. Pleased with a lot of it. 2 mistakes - one at the NW end where the dunes have all changed and got on the wrong hill. Second was out of the 3rd last where I was with JH and lost focus trying to chase after him out of the control. Lost map contact and then lost confidence into the circle. Easily fixed! Pleased with how legs felt after yesterday.

Glen Tanar with J, RB, BS, ME, SR, JS. Wee bit of snow under foot and overhead but kept reasonably sheltered in the trees. Frst up Creag na Slice, then back down to the glen and up the other side onto Baudy Meg. Good bit of climb whilst staying low. Felt ok physically, but generally a bit drained - not too surprisingly. Difficult to stop myself from playing as long as the body seems to be holding up ok, but should build some more R+R into the plan somewhere.

C • R & R 1

Tech 10 #1. Dinnet east - giving it a reccie for training next week whilst getting some good compass practice in too. Legs tired.

Grabbed the chance of a half day ski tour with GB and RB above Glenshee. Headed west towards Butchart's corrie and then traversed round to climb onto Carn a Gheoidh. Nice descent to the north then climbed back up to have another go. Pretty tired by the time we were traversing back. Wind strong at times and briefly got a bit exciting on an exposed section of the ridge. Excellent snow if you pick the right destination, as we did. Great to have GB leading the way and giving a few tips. Just wish I could get out more than once a year and I might improve a bit and not forget how to use the kit each time! Out for 3.5h total, but much faffing with skins on / off.

Couldn't get motivated enough for DNC at Scolty on tired legs.

Travelling

GTJaP D5 Chalet de la Frasse to Giron. Got off to an early start as forecast was for rain to come in around 11 - and sure enough it did. Along with a nice headwind heading out along the valley. Slow going early on through soft crust snow / slush so decided to take a few short cuts and make things easier by sticking on the road for longer than planned. As soon as we’d left the road it was icy slush in the rain and continued much that way for the rest of the day. Think there could have been some nice scenery and good views on a different day. At least I managed to use most of the kit I’d been carrying for 4 days. Got to Giron soon after 3pm. The escape plan from here was a bit vague as there’s no public transport, but it just so happened that the first person we came across was about to do a hotel pick-up from Bellegarde where we were staying!
175km and 5000m in 5 days . Nae a bad wee adventure and body seems to have held up ok. Think I might wait until the snow’s looking good here next time, then book a late entry for the Transju race.