Training Log Archive: Frostbite

Jogging round Sherwood Forest with sore legs. Very pleasant in the sunshine. Includes a 10 minute dibber hunt where Tasha lost hers last year. It is of no value now, doubly superseded, but finding it would have been cool. I didn't find it, so I was just wasting my time.

On safari. Walking, Chertsey Bridge to London Bridge (including crossings of Bushy Park, Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common) and then back to Waterloo. Interesting and quite a pleasant walk as far as Putney, then a few tedious miles to Westminster, had a look round the national gallery in Trafalgar Square and had a look inside St Paul's. Five minutes too late to go up the Monument, but I've been up it before so never mind.

Strange, strange places. It really is a foreign country. And the National Gallery certainly has its knockers.

About 30 miles all told. 24 miles to Trafalgar Square in 6 hours 30 minutes.

Course checking for Yorkshire Squad training, Timble. Still struggling to move very fast, and it's a tough physical area. Knackered by the end.

JK Relay, Pippingford Park, M165+

First leg for an old man's team with Chris Burden and Tony Carlyle. Struggling to keep up any sort of pace, legs just dead. Lost a minute where I couldn't work out what was going on with the contours at #12. It would have helped if I had worked out I was looking for a hill in a quarry.

8 minutes slower than Charlie. If I had only run Saturday and not run Sunday I could have got a lot closer to that.