Training Log Archive: Kitch

rather tired
went to the museum in the afternoon. Sam said he was frightened in case of real dinosaurs but really I think he was kidding - especially when he got hold of a sword. He wasn't scared of the big bad wolves. Beth had little to say on the subject but enjoyed it anyway.
We watched a very entertaining show about 18th century Edinburgh - a time when spending a penny involved giving said penny to a person in a large cloak with a bucket hung round their neck. This lucky person then stands behind you, wraps you in thier arms and voluminous cape while you shit in the bucket.
You didn't want to be on the street at 10pm. This was slopping out time. At the ring of a bell everyone emptys their bucket of shite out the window - their 14 storey tenement window ! Just imagine the closes !

First I did the Skyline
Then I had a Bob Graham style lunch break at the car.
11 minutes, a bag of slushy mashed potato, a choccy milk drink, a bottle of sport drink. Re-stock on water.
Then off again round the Skyline.
I probably shouldn't have run all the way round the first time because second time out I was walking the hills (but then I suppose I'd have walked them first time...). Anyway I gues I was in a trough going 20% slower - so something over 4 hours looked to be on the cards if I did a second lap.
It was a windy day . Wind is the worst thing. And the very worst place was Turnhouse, it was ripping you off the ridge on the first lap - so much so that I thought that if it was the same along the rest of the ridge then things were going to get impossible. It wasn't so bad elsewhere it was just very annoying. Reaching Turnhouse for the second time I think the wind was stronger and colder and I began to dither (maybe I was tired-er), though I think the beating I was getting from the wind was mainly responsible. I managed to get down the ridge to the coll to Carnethy, put some more clothes on but was really cold. I decided the game was up, kinda, I dithered; a few strides towards Carnethy, a few strides in the opposite direction down towards Glencourse, a few strides towards Carnethy. " look you clown, you are getting cold, stop mucking about. If you carry on you'll be back an hour after dark, you probably won't get warm going up Carnethy, and then you'll never get warm and you be done, get out of the wind and go home.
So, skirted north round the base of Turnhouse down to Flotterstone and back up the route to Hill End. Some of that mashed potato seemed to kick in at Flotterstone (2 hrs later) and I ran all the way back ( along a line of squaddies with full kit trudging back over to Dreghorn), apart from the sheer climb up to Castle Law.
Skyline 3:31 (26km 1900m / 16.25 miles 6200 ft)
lunch 11 ( 0 km 0m / 0 miles 0 ft )
Tunrhouse gap and back 3:08 (18 km 1200m / 11.25 miles 3900 ft)

27.5 miles 10,100 feet (about 40% of a BG)

not really epic,
just hard, wind is shite

6170

Was felling pretty not up for it in the morning after a week of terrible sleep and that thing with the single leg squats.

Pleased I got out and did so much,
Including the psychological thing of heading back out for a second skyline (though common sense prevailed). Felt like having reached Turnhouse a second time getting round again was do-able.

I feel like a good full on rest week is coming due, either that or I need to cut back in the week to allow for Saturdays.
Carnethy was pretty tiring I think (even if only an hour).

I'm not going to try and do the same 4 day week I have been as that would jump my training up too much I think.

C • uh oh... 2

I need sleep

from work up the Seat,
just the once. up via DVD and down DV as usual - not really gunning it - in fact not gunning it atall, due to a severe case of DOBS (delayed onset buttock soreness) brought on by those pesky single leg squats I did yesterday

up to pleasance and back

OM 20kg 3x sets of 5 shrugs, shrug chins, overhead

Single leg squats 20kg 3 sets of 8
sit ups 7.5kg 3 sets 12
hanging pull ups 3 sets of 5
bench jumps 5 sets of 6 continuous
rotations 7.5 kg 3 sets of 6x6
long steps 40 with 10kg.

jogscotland
jog and stretch.

befrore and after Meadows

4 x 200m, 60 seconds recovery
33, 32, 32, 30 (that last one was thanks to Hollie the rocket)
3 min
3 x 1200m 75 secs recovery
4:16, 4:17, 4:18
3 min
2 x 200m 60 sec rec
36, 35 (didn't want to go too hard on these)

good session

up to Pleasance and then home

advanced circuits
3 laps 14 stations
30, 30, 30
had a headache and didn't feel totally up for it, but still good reps, worked hard, pretty wacked afterwards.