Training Log Archive: HelenB

Parc de Peña, lovely area, fantastic views, amazing castle. Definitely worth a visit - the bit around the castle and lakes would also be awesome for sprint

Sprint O in sintra, brilliant! The park was deceptively tricky, levels, steps, slopes and walls making route choice and execution a challenge. Good switch then to old town alleys (had to go slow in some of them due to high tourist volume) and in front of the impressive national palace

A year of excellent sprint O in Scotland, Belgrade and Venice is difficult to top but reckon that the old town of the Lisbon and the castle is up there. Loved the controls inside the castle (went wrong and found myself on very high narrow walkway on top of the walls) - brilliant levels and tunnels. The old town was also brilliant, loads of steps and passageways, pretty hilly so also needed to find routes to minimise climb. And was just as fantastically sunny as Belgrade and Venice :)

Intervals around the university sports area in Lisbon, good fun though fresher's week looked pretty scary

Hyde park loop

Green park run when arrived in London, quite late and not feeling too good so a short one