Training Log Archive: rcro

Very easy jog up to the start since the officials were insistent that it would take me well over 20 minutes. Got there with 12 mins spare...

Kymin Dash.

Biggest issue with this was that it's too flat - runnable all the way up and no scope for recovery. Pretty knackered by the road crossing and just did all I could to hold on to the end - which is hard with all the undulations!

Reasonably strong on the ups, but don't have the same relative strength on flat and down - did well to lose just 1 place from the top, and that was a guy who I only passed literally as we were going around the building.

Long slog at the end - last 4k or so on road, but did reel in Phil to get third Lliswerry (I think). Second NGOC by a long way though.

In hindsight, perfectly suitable for trainers. Muddy bit nothing like same scale as Parkrun and down to the river was on a firm track. Maybe trainers, being bigger, might have made it more likely for me to scuff and trip so suppose its swings and roundabouts.

2nd best 10k time - 12s or so behind the very flat Yeovilton 10k time from last year. Had thought I might have struck a 5k PB along the road at the end but was "only" 19:30.

https://www.strava.com/activities/548146744/overvi...

Well organised, well signed (on the whole), lots of marshalls and photographers - and a full set of prizes to the ladies as well as the men (1st 3, and 1st in age categories not in top 3 INCLUDING senior) - so not bad in all.

25/256 - http://www.racetecresults.com/Results.aspx?CId=166...
The clocks seems to be 40s out compared to everyone's times on strava so assume there wasn't a consistent "race time" between start and finish

Warm down with Richard P - river to the viaduct then back along the railway track. Quite nice as able to enjoy the sun at the slower pace!

As an aside - body really not able to keep up with the changes in temperature. 0 celcius yesterday, +15 today. Clearly got the salt intake right as survived but need the weather to be more consistently warm before I'm used to it and running ok.


Walked around Monmouth afterwards - should make a nice map.

FoD Parkrun

After last week's false alarm snow forecast I was right to ignore today's sleet until 9 - was actually quite heavy snow and pretty white around Berry Hill.

Course was about the muddiest I have ever seen it - and others said the same. Easily lost 20-30s per lap by the sawmills alone as just all deep wet mud and no grip - so quite pleased time is around 21.

Would have been even slower if they hadn't made the various improvements to the first lap and a couple of other bad mud points. Last of the (37) new signs been put in now - look really good and should now be the best signed parkrun in the country!

https://www.strava.com/activities/546803045

Watch not behaving again - taking a long time to find itself, and not a good plot. Possibly not helped by weather but suspect it needed a hard reset after all.

Pretty cold and wet so changed plan for post parkrun to be just a short one around Covernham and Sallowvallets rather than drive somewhere else.

Muddy. Sun came out about 1/3 of way in and temperature warmed to a toasty 0.5 celcius. Watch sorted itself out somewhere along the way as elevation went back to being white text and a reasonable number given the actual height of the ground.

https://www.strava.com/activities/546803247

Decided on an easy run at very short notice as sun was out (a bit...).

Very easy pace and didn't ever get far from home. Legs still feeling tired on up hills but no worse than last week.

https://www.strava.com/activities/546275697

Watch particularly bad at start - just done a firmware update so had been testing it still worked whilst inside (downside to a broken button is that I can't do a hard reset with just the watch itself - and it sometimes needs resetting to work after firmware updates) and think it remembered it's "inside" position quite quickly and didn't try very hard for anything better.

Had planned an easy run but back suffering from a whole day of meetings and in the spirit of an easy week rest day would do no harm

Lliswerry. 4x 1.5k on the cycle path to Pye Corner. Feeling pretty tired but still tried and surprised by the times.

6:05, 5:49, 5:45, 5:31

https://www.strava.com/activities/544492402/overvi...

Reasonable place on the eastbound segment. Definitely going faster westbound so created a new segment so will see where I fit in. Lots of quick runners have done this it seems!

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My first daylight MDC run of the year.

Knee hasn't been too great the last couple of days - combination of fairly hard few weeks followed by very long periods at my desk getting right ITB a bit - just need to spend a bit of time rolling to ease it.

Generally quite steady/slow running but fair efforts on the two hills - rewarded with a 2nd and a 3rd place on segments. Hills pace doesn't seem too bad but legs were making heavy effort.

Opted out of the last down and up as thought there was nothing to gain from it, and plenty to lose from an extra slow descent and walk back up. Want to keep the week fairly easy so I stand a chance of recovering by Sunday.

https://www.strava.com/activities/543544579/overvi...

As I'm not a Stoke Gifford taxpayer, I'm really looking forward to enjoying my next FREE post-work 5k run around Little Stoke Park. Just think of all that wear and tear I'll be causing to their wonderfully maintained footpaths :-)

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