Training Log Archive: Frostbite

Northern Champs - Ray Demesne. I think the best I have run physically for ages - certainly since the Scottish Champs last year. Still not fast enough though, and on a course with no technical challenge I was well beaten. Steve W 71, Jase 72, Jon X 73, Andy T 74, Me 77, Nigel Wright 78. Still, it's a lot better than I was doing in March last year. Also everybody else claims to have lost time because of dodgy control numbers on the descriptions - I had the same issue but can only claim to have lost 15 seconds maximum double checking with the map descriptions.

From Eaglescliffe round the riverbank and back up through Egglescliffe village. Pleasant, mostly slow but did a couple of strides.

Castle Hills - 4 x 3min/1min. Not going flat out - I was looking for style points more than speed. Good.

Stainbeck and Stonegate. 10 minutes at 130, 10 at 140, 10 at 150 then jog home. A bit tired from trying too hard last night, but ok.

Adel Crag. I tricked myself into doing this quickly - I thought it would be too dark to do the lot so I was planning to go fast to the crag and then see what happened. As it turns out I wasn't particularly quick to the crag - I set off within 5 minutes of getting home from work and felt a bit clumsy to begin with, but as I said I was pushed for time before dark. And then it was just about light enough to finish through the woods and I was going a bit better. That is actually my best time since May 2007 (before the operation) - although I could do under 45 then (on beta-blockers and after a longish break in training). In August 2006 I did it in 41 and a half.

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jog down to Elmsall station

Leeds station to home, via Whitehall No1, the new footbridge over the river, then along the canal and up through Headingley like last week. Did a few faster stretches between 1/4 mile posts but mostly just plodding along. Walking yesterday seems to have taken a lot out of me.