Training Log Archive: Frostbite

This is a run I devised when I mostly trained from my office in the middle of Leeds, designed to maximize the amount of terrain I could get into a lunchtime run. It is as physical as I could make it without being gratuitously unpleasant. Starting the run from home misses out a bit of tarmac and grass running in the centre of town. It is a run that requires strength and aggression. Today I attacked it with feebleness and timidity. I was just being a bit rubbish. Woodhouse Ridge, Scott Hall Woods, Sugarwell Hill, Stainbeck, Carr Manor Fields, Meanwood Hospital Woods, Meanwood, the Hollies, with as much up and down and off-path running as possible.

Kirkstall Bridge, Calverley Bridge, Hunger Hills, Runway Lights, Oil Mill Beck, Butcher Hill. Tired after a difficult week at work, then Duncan made me stay up til 1am drinking beer and listening to Geography teacher music. Once I got going I was fine though, no trouble with the heart, legs comfortable enough, cruising nicely. Found the hills hard work mind.

Overtired from missing half a nights sleep on Tuesday and still not really recovered. It makes the AF worse and it was going on and off throughout this jog. Legs felt fine, I did a couple of bursts of faster running but couldn't sustain it when the AF kicked in. Parkside, Weetwood.

Tempo run round Lawnswood. Trying my arse off, not going very fast. Some chest soreness I think from carrying a wardrobe upstairs on Monday. Also a very stressful day at work that continued into the night - firefighting at 1 in the morning.