Training Log Archive: Joshosh

Galtee Challenge 2013, East to West (Cahir side to Anglesborough), with robrunner, Sean H, Swiad, and three other Munster Trail runners. Elapsed time was ~5hrs10, could definitely have done this quicker as we took lots of breaks as we waited for people to catch up and feed breaks and that. Perfect day for this. Took on 1.5-2litres of miwadi on the run, had a bag of jellies, a banana and the ''pink dot'' cakes my housemate gave me for my birthday.

Robrunner undertook the nav challenge as the group started off relatively quick with a run up through a wood that was near to The CorkO map of Clonmore north, currently suffering from a disease killing the trees :-( After ~2-3km in the forest baking in the heat and lack of breeze we finally reached the beautiful open mountain with burnt back heather to make it fast underfoot.The first peak was a trig point south of Toureen, could nearly hear the corbetts in toureen doing their training below us, unknown to both us and then. Next we crossed over to Slieveanard and Swiad spotted a nice trail above some forestry (Robrunner suggests this is Scartnaglorane, and hes unsure if theres a map of it). Next we ran to cairn south of Sturrakeen. From there it was SW and W over two more small hills to reach Farbrega, a long climb interrupted by motorbikers shredding the dry bog. They were as surprised by seeing us in shorts as we were with seeing them!

Then up to Greenane with Lough Muskry to the north. Galtybeg stood proud to the west and we climbed steadily to the summit point where a pit stop was taken. Then on to Galtymore a nice long slog where relentless forward motion was the key, then an exciting ridge run following a stone wall in a horse-shoe shape to Slievecushabinnia, Carrignabinnia and Lyracappul with its tooth-like crag on top. Then a fast run downhill with Swiad and Sean, however nature called and i had to leave them go so hung on for robrunner, then up and over Paradise Hill, some light trespassing hugging fences with robrunnerthrough fields and back to Anglesborough.

Felt relatively string throught this and more importantly my team mate for the rogaine was strong throughout and never really faultered not like on our nagles run. Definitely possible to do it much faster and with less/no real breaks either, would say maybe low 3hrs. Today though it was a matter of no man gets left behind and to regroup at all the crags even if i was feeling strong. Robrunner said the previous record was ~5.30hrs so was nice to pass that. (write up thanks to robrunner, so used it as a template)

This run today brought my total running mileage for this year (2013) to 1381km of just running, while my grand total for last year (2012 in total) was 1373km. Already more than last year, and only just over half ways through 2013.

Left barracks this morning at 0720 to go to kilworth ranges, spent 6-7 hours lifting and moving targets, then shot my 10rounds only, got home to cork at 1930

C • ARPs 3

Easy run after day at ranges.

just across to ballycotton on the cliffs, nice and hot out.

Shins a bit sore on the inside, and legs a small bit heavy after tuesday and wednesdays workouts aswell

Full day on the ranges tomorrow with the rdf so will only get a short run in tomorrow evening which is perfect. Then all systems go for the 'TransGaltee' run on sunday with Robrunner and the MTR group aswell

C • MMR 4

easy gallop across the cliffs with dad and zac before zac heads down to rinn for irish college

C • Colours 6

jog with dad

10*long hill reps, followed by 10*short hill sprints then 1*long hill rep to finish

short warm up with cillin niall and niamh

easy enough course around fitzgeralds park to get the day off to a nice start. mass start and lead from the go, lost some time on a route choice around the building but wanted to see which was better so went the opposite to niall. clean race as it should be in an easy area

. All were mass starts. total time, i.e recovery/standing/route chatting time between legs was 34.59

cillin caught me with an uncrossable on the way to 1, just didnt see the line on the map at all, but i was on my toes for the rest of it, was hard to spot the solid black lines for the most part especially seeing as they were fabricated. good session tho, mass start with niall, and we split on routes pretty early.

C • CIT 2

intervals on the track with niall after the orienteering practices. Nice little session in the sun. (400m warm-up and into the session then)
1) 72sec-417m-2.55min/km
2) 72sec-417m-2.53min/km
3) 71sec-415m-2.53min/km
4) 72sec-416m-2.53min/km
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5) 31sec-212m-2.29min/km
6) 31sec-208m-2.34min/km
7) 32sec-208m-2.36min/km
8) 30sec-208m-2.25min/km

niall headed off, i threw my kit back inside and did a short warm down after the sessions to keep loose

recovery run with all the marathoners from yesterday and some of the tri-athletes aswell.

plans afoot to do some sprint training in ucc and the park tomorrow with niall, cillin and niamh. cillin is planning a tricky sprint with uncrossables added to catch us out. Ive planned a short park blast of a sprint and some intervals on campus for quick choice practice along with starting and getting a flow going aswell. should be good

was ok on the mountain part but couldnt get my head around the forest, kept drifting in the green and ph out foxed me in a little game of cat and mouse

so after the weekend ive learned a few things, firstly how to deal with printing in this pinky colour that isnt the purple. running with one eye with the colour correction lenses and one eye with a normal lense seems to make it easier to read, not sure how this works with the purple but will have to check. Also need to trust my compass more as lots of my mistakes were down to drifting on bearings even though my planned routes were, for the most part, ok.
NB: Passed 1300km running, 300km orienteering, 600 controls and a total of 2000km combined training so far this year. Last year i covered 1373km running total, 393km orienteering, ~900controls and 2805km in total. Not been a bad year training and getting race practice just need to nail it down really.

up to do my T.O.E.T's

Course 1 - Splits