Training Log Archive: Frostbite

Stoodley Pike, Brown course. My heart was giving me problems and keeping me awake overnight and I wasn't sure if I was going to run but it settled down eventually and the run was fine. I was a bit tired, I made a silly 1 minute mistake, otherwise fine. I was coming off the moor and down the big hillside and thought I knew exactly where I was going from a distance away, except I was wrong and when I got there I didn't have a clue where I had got to. Fortunately I hadn't gone too far astray. I felt very slow on the slog around the hill but picked up for the last few controls through the quarry. 4th place, After Martin (61) Jon Malley (62) and SteveW (10 seconds ahead of me).

I have been very tired all day and I had DIY and furniture shifting to do so by the time I got round to going for a run I was well tired and my heart was beginning to play up which is what tends to happen when I get very tired. Actually the run was ok, I went round the permanent course in Beckett Park, the recommended light green standard course. I had to actually navigate for about 5 of the controls. All the posts were there. It was getting a bit dark for the last couple but I knew where those ones were.

jog to/from Becketts park

Adel Church. Feeling well out of it, and my legs like somebody has been hitting them with a hammer. Maybe I was trying a bit too hard last night, but I think I might need some new shoes. Slow. I took a shortcut through the churchyard because it is better lit than the road.

Potternewton, Gledhow Valley Road, Stonegate Road. Started off feeling a bit sore in the legs and a bit slow, picked up after Scott Hall Road and I felt pretty good for a while, but I was suffering towards the end. Better up the hills than I have been. One of those runs where I seemed to get held up every time I tried to cross a road.

Heart clunked a few times early on but seems to be fine. My HRM, on the other hand, has given up. It has been saying low battery for two years but now I might actually have to replace it.

Mrs Frostbite still away

The last time I ran at Burbage was at the Home International in December 2006. That was the last day when I didn't have a heart problem. Browsing the splits the next day I got palpitations and ended up in hospital for a week.

Feeling much better today, but very tired. I'm frustrated by the time I lost at the end yesterday but lots of people missed the same controls, and overall I think it was a pretty good result after a bad week.

no time to do anything else - Mrs Frostbite is away in London