Training Log Archive: Frostbite

Northern Champs, High Dam. The usual problems and couldn’t run very fast. Navigation mostly sound apart from being hopelessly lost twice. I lost track of where I was in the green on 12 and ended up relocating at the large marsh NE of 13, not too far off line but any extra distance in there cost a fair bit of time. Probably lost two minutes on the leg, but I got some of it back with a fastest split to 13 because I already knew where it was. Then on the way to 14 I was heading through the flat marshy area, I crossed a stream, I saw a path, I crossed a wall but I couldn’t work out where any of these things were on the map. I just pressed on knowing that I would reach the top of the slope above the control, and when I got there I was exactly where I wanted to be. Still can’t work out how I got there. 3 minutes down on Steve W, 6 on Ben Hartman for 3rd place, but 16 minutes behind Geoff Ellis on M35.

Just a jog, round Beckett Park

School Lane and stepping stones. Cruising along mostly quite comfortable but palpitations came and went so I had to slow down some of the time. Not too bad.

Woodside - Newlay - Acorn - Kirkstall. Same as last week, on the road. Heart had been a bit jittery all day but it was ok running as long as I kept it steady. It went wrong twice, both times when I speeded up to cross the road, both times settled within a minute. Just jogging up the long hills, not very quick.

Easy School Lane and stepping stones. Tried to lift the pace a bit on the two steeper climbs, just to get the HR up to 150 then eased off. No problems.