Training Log Archive: Tamsin

Cycle home from near Mottisfont.

Run to get some milk.

Boxing Day Canter. Always enjoy this event. Didn't find the fairy or Christmas tree this year!

Old golf course parkrun. Not actually that muddy. Couldn't be bothered to actually try too hard. Good fun and glad dad dragged me out.

Cycle ride with dad.

Delivering Christmas cards.

Run home from Winchester via Itchen towpath and Otterbourne.

Looping around woods in CF.

Left side of my back is pretty stiff/achy. The cold I thought had disappeared has turned to a mild chesty cough I would rather didn't get worse.

Peak Raid from Crowden on Black Hill. Started off with Jade and Amy for the first hour but was having to wait around a bit so went off to get a few extras. Thought I would start struggling after about 90minutes so missed out some high point controls so I could get back easily if needed. Not got that extra gear on the hills atm. At the end could have got a control worth 10 points more but went down the other valley as had loads of time and fancied going somewhere different. The terrain here was very tussocky though and had to be careful with my shoulder especially steep downhill. Fortunately lack of speed today was made up for by good nav as lots of fell runners lost time in the clag. Lots of fun :)

In rivelin with James. Feeling dehydrated and unfit, pretty slow up the hill from the bottom but fine on the downhill and flats. Peak Raid on Sunday is going to be a struggle.

USMC Thursday night run - standard Froggatt route. Only 8 in middle and slow groups post Christmas meal so all ran together. Achilles tight up Curbar gap. Good chat :)

Foundry's 25th birthday last night so did some one armed top roping. Now my right shoulder is sorer than my left!

Fell "run" up Wetherlam from Coniston via Swirl Hawse. It was very slow. Walk up, jog down. 2 1/2 hours including stops.

Contour only and corridor course at Dale Park then shadowing. Being careful not to fall on my shoulder. Felt like someone who hasn't run in quite a while.

Shadowing at Esthwaite Intake then collecting controls at faster pace.

Must be all those hours of hard running catching up with me...

Running a reasonable pace by the end. Been a busy week, I'm sure the last 2 weeks of term will be busy as always. Shoulder not great running, but not bad enough to stop.