Training Log Archive: rcro

Knackered before the start! Could feel yesterday in my legs.

Reasonable start - but as it turned into single track just 50 yards in was a lot of getting stuck behind slow people and having to force past. In a good position 15-20th maybe, by the top.

Descent was poor as expected. Not helped by being forced off the path and down the rocks - think the marshall was actually blocking the best line. Quite a lot of sliding, losing balance and little confidence. Easily dropped 1 min - but good start meant that I had been amongst better runners.

Long riverside run in beating sun dragged on and was definitely tiring. Recaught a couple of places I'd lost, and had Andrew Dickens, Mark Matthews and Rob Hook for company up hill two - but walked much more than I really wanted to.

Just a case of trying to keep going from the top. Not pretty or quick, gained a few places, lost some going down only to get them back at drinks station. Again with Mark for the drag by the river - us motivating each other to keep going.

Possibly did run more of last hill than second but tired and the extra effort was only because Matthew Lawson was shouting from the top, and had Lliswerry in front and behind. Managed to hold places to the end - but wrecked. Really pleased course was 600m shorter than I thought it was!

Good descending could have got me 1 min faster. Having not done quite a lot yesterday - harder to quantify impact, maybe 3-4 mins over 20k, doubt I'd have beaten John today regardless.

Fairly happy with end result given expectations. Suspect when I see full results I'll be in the right place relative to all the other names.

https://www.strava.com/activities/555402249/overvi...

Note - found out from Mark that the wheelbarrows were empty yesterday because parkrun rules means everybody has the do the whole 5k under their own steam and not propelled. Maybe should have been running harder rather than chatting - but it did help pass the time on the dull railway track bit :-)

Event: NGOC League 3
 

Drier than last week but still pretty muddy by the sawmills so slow conditions.

Looked like Marcus was trying for the segment at the start so pace was pretty fast for first 500 yards before settled in to a pace.

Keeping an eye on the time and was 20s or so up on 4 min/k at 3k, and 12s up at 4k. Didn't think PB would be possible given mud in last k, and expected traffic, but tried hard none the less - if I didn't get caught up lapping wheelbarrows at both of the two narrow points by the sawmills would have PBed easily. 2s off none the less - but still very pleased to be back under 20 here. Shows potential for another time.

Definitely running at 100% effort today - completely spent by the end.

Anniversary day here, and volunteers did a great job making a carnival type atmosphere.

https://www.strava.com/activities/554388136

Warm down outer lap with rickyp.

Highmeadow not my favourite area for O, and a little put off it after all the time spent planning last year.

Instead long "easy" run over to Knockalls. Nice day for it and saw lots of bluebells, deer and cyclists.

First hill ok, but bottom of Knockalls to Buck Stone went badly with lots of walking. Decided from there to cut short and jog back rather than head down to Reddings and back up and over.

Wasn't expecting 12k/500m after cutting short - plan was only to do 10k/300 so clearly underestimated somewhat! Tomorrow might feel hard now! Good training all the same.

https://www.strava.com/activities/554388732

Given the stick given to Clive for following Jackie to the wrong control at Cranham, surely some mention should be made re Alice's mp and Mark failing to successfully punch the start?

Post run manned start for an hour and stayed until everyone was back - halved my donation for attending by taking more cakes as helper expenses. Great that everyone was back by 2.45 so I could get home early without any searching!

thought about running - still tired from Tuesday so opt to rest up before weekend's parkrun, forest run, 20k race...

Lliswerry intervals at the bird sanctuary. Lovely evening again, but breezier than yesterday.

11x 60s - should have been 12 but we'd run out of road after doubling back - couldn't turn around and go too far because of the other groups behind us!

Long jog out to start as we were parking east end of loop, but everyone was to start at west end today. Not really paying attention to times - but definitely against the breeze for the whole session (less the one we doubled back for).

Definitely not feeling fresh today - and that's despite going to bed early at 11 last night (was knackered!)

https://www.strava.com/activities/551686888/overvi...

Car has started producing fuel from air. Leaving Nash, range was 0 miles; by the time I got to tesco 8 miles later range was 10!

Really nice evening so wasn't going to ruin it with the Blorenge - instead did the Lliswerry run with a few "improvements" - (1) ignore the route completely, (2) run to the top of the nearest mountain.

Aimed to keep running all the way and succeeded until stopping at the gate beyond the car park. Understandably struggling with the "walls" by Mark & Alice's, before the cattle grid, and at the end of the drag to the car park.

Stopped for a couple of mins for recovery at the gate, and did very well to restart and carry on up - but with quite a bit more walking as steep and stony. Initial descent fairly cautious as wearing trainers.

Quite a lot of local "yoof" at/near the top - and seemed quite genuinely impressed that I managed to run the whole way up, especially the ones that overtook me at the leisure centre...

Clear skies so good visibility. Saw a boat - then turned around and jogged back down. Quite pleased with how this went.

https://www.strava.com/activities/550550462