Training Log Archive: rcro

Perfect weather for surveying - but not driving back up again. As nobody free in the day went off on my own to join up bits of Bath. Legs feeling yesterday so added reason not to try. And did more off road than my shoes would have liked - had expected a road but mis-remembered the map.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1410043110

Housework. First time home in daylight in months so could see the mess that's accumulated.

Event: Winter Evening Event
 

Came up to this as my sort of terrain - fast and not technical, and planned to tag on some mapping tomorrow. Sadly mum has quarantined herself with some hospital bug so can't stay up - so the survey will have to wait for another time I'm up.

At least got a decent run in for the long round trip. Planner assured everyone that fast runners should clear it really easily. I was 44s late... (but may have been the only person to visit all 22 of the 21 controls)

Struggling for pace, have to fight against the wind and slow up the hills. Waking up all the controls early on, and as at the front having the job of finding the flags when hidden but passed by rickyp as got into 7. He took the path and I went up the road and seemed to match pace. Both went to the wrong tree.

Here onwards was helped by rickyp's faffing in looking for the controls where hidden, or the paths where hidden by roadworks. Lost time on 14 as went to 15 first (the line 13-14 went through it).

Downhill was nice and managed to keep speed up after 20 when clear timing was tight. Not taking it totally seriously so was getting 21 regardless of time. Quite fun to be running head-to-head, even if there was a lot of not-trying in terms of navigation. Think I just got 2nd as Rhys (started 2 mins behind) went to long way to 20 and must have lost more time than me.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1409129257

Recovery run from home, but feeling harder than it should after another day sat down in meetings. Very wet out there.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1407507086

From work, after a lot of sitting down. Was supposed to be with a load of colleagues but because the 6 hrs of meetings over-ran by an hour they didn't have time.

Progression run and chance to explore the new road. Guessed a route back through Stoke Gifford and only hit one dead end.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1405939591/overv...

Roads gridlocked because they are putting a new drain in by parkway station. Seems, as yet, they are making no attempt to fix the collapsed road around it.

C • traffic light 1

Late with work. Cold evening for catching train home. Glad of a radiator to sit on :-)

Long run in Black Mountains with rickyp.

Cwmdu, Pen Tir, Mynydd Llangors, Pengenffordd, up Waun Fach race climb and along the ridge.

Weather was pretty hostile and lots if time spent cowering in shelter. Mynydd Troedd abandoned because of blizzard and exposure. Around the side was ok though - and would make for better orienteering terrain than Wyche Ridge...

Weather not great at the col but after a few minutes shelter had cleared and back to being sunny so carried on ridge. Turned pretty horrid after a few k so ended up spending a long time sheltering, by which point had got cold. Opted then to bail out of the run and head straight back down to the cars. Needed a 4th layer, and thicker gloves up there.

Then on to catch finishers at the fell race and help eat cakes.

C • Dursley Dozen 1

Event: Western Night League
 

FoD parkrun in pouring rain and wind. Surprisingly not a huge number here today - but all seemed a bit too optimistic of their abilities as was properly stuck in traffic for first 1.3k and having to work to overtake cleanly.

Ended up 6th - with 15-20 overtakes on first lap and 5 or so on 2nd. As seems to be usual, bit of a progression run.

Noticed left shoe lace has snapped - which may partly explain why foot became less supported on Thursday. Fortunately do still have an emergency lace in my bag so can replace before tomorrow. Noted it’s not the first time I’ve observed shoe lace failure on Wyche Ridge WNL day.

Meeting Chris and Gill to look at layout for Ross urban race, and crossing points. Very productive, and even a possibility of them getting an in-law to map the slope properly. Need to move the finish so older junior course has to be redone.

Far to efficient and ended up with a lot of time to kill. Done my main shop, filled up with diesel, next to browse around labels for an hour or so as precious little else between here and WNL!

Survey of new housing estate in Newent. Base map pretty good so fairly easy. Went for a walk around further south to explore footpaths etc for other map updates.

Not really trying and legs feeling having been on my feet for 8 hours. Didn’t plan any route but sought to avoid the worst of the slopes - still managing to get a fair bit of climb in early on.

Came back mostly along the road which was out of the wind. Only time loss was on 48, which others had trouble with too. Weak attackpoint from road and must have misinterpreted the bend in the road, and the vegetation - easy from above.