Training Log Archive: Cat T

Skelder, making some tracks. Some ruthless control hanging going on, managed to run through the feature on both 8 and 13 without seeing the kite, leading to much confusion. mega hesitant in circles after that, plus some other little things. enough discipline to stop when i needed to though. felt a bit slow today, long warm up but not managing to push to fast pace when its colder.

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shows near misses on 6, 8 and 13. also missed path to 15 in the snow, a bit too cautious on 14, being too far up the hill on 5. still not sure about route to 8, my AP was safer than the south route but i missed cutting through the forest, it was snow covered brashings so decided round would be better. bananas to 12, 13, 19 made by picking animal tracks/more runnable bits of forest. so all in all not great but was lots better than when i trained here at xmas.

plus some snow shovelling and some heavy bag carrying

writing dissertation and baking. the runny nose ive had all week is still there so am keeping myself out of the massive wind-chill (til tomorrow, when i will absolutely boss the Brown course in my home forest, keeping hold of the Plot because i know i still need to look at the map, even though i think i know where i am all the time)

C • Bossing the Brown Course 5

travelling to Whitby

not too long in there this morning so i dont miss my train. continued rocky relationship with swiss ball in pilates.

evening jog to Hawsker and back. off the roads where poss but everywhere was frozen so not sure it made much difference. lots of moonlight so no headtorch needed :-)

6x4min/1min, 6x1min/1min. still boring, but nice to work hard. no running today, apart from a few mins to the gym and back. lots of resting and too much cake eating.

Today's orienteering appointments:

1. Physio. Getting shin retaped and being reminded not to do too much running, especially on roads.

2. Meeting with Toni about the races this year, orienteering planning, running training. He agreed i should train more alternative training. Scanned lots of maps. Will get to work doing some prep for the races coming up soon :-)

Pentlands. Patchy snow and icy paths. Hilly course, just jogging round and reading the contours.

no morning run, a bit bored. lots of lower leg exercises for my shins and some core stability instead.

easy week intervals, so quite a short session. fun, running 2x6min and 4x3min with some hills up to the links. mostly on grass. feeling quite okay apart from getting running-tummy near the end, especially bad on warming down. busy afternoon of lectures, maybe not eating quite right or a bit stressed from uni?

including drills

Kicking off easy week with a 2 hour nap this afternoon, then a chatty run along the canal and round the meadows with Bex