Training Log Archive: mikeyA

Malhamdale fell race. Decided to run the adults for the first time ever. First checkpoint at top of a hill close by. Didn't know the route so followed mark chapman to the next which was at the bottom of malham cove in the river before the next was some 300 feet above our heads at the top! Once I'd got there oli Johnson, Neil northrop and some others came past me! Turns out I was beating OJ halfway round a fell race :P (he may have got lost) kept up with them kind of down the hill to the bottom of gordale scar waterfall that we then had to climb up :/ I got stuck so they ran away from me. I finished in about 8th place only 9 mins down on rob baker who won and about 7 mins down on OJ ;) not too bad :P

C • woo mikey! nice one c: 7

Ran up pen-y-Ghent with mike and Alastair pedley. Some pritty steep bits that we had to walk up but ran most of way, stopping once or twice for alastair. I did an extra loop to them when I got to the top to add a bit of distance on so did that quick plus going back down quick too.

At malham all weekend so lots of running coming up

Adams family informal beer trail. Format was that you were given the position of the first control and at that control is a coordinate for the next and so on till the end. Did the long and as it turned out there was only 2 of us doing it so we ran together. Similar route to the run with Julie. Up past blackpool bridge cutting back down to the fields to Holme. Then across to yateholme reservoir before going up the other side of the valley and back down to the house where, as I'm not old enough yet :(, had to have a coke instead of a beer.

God that was a long way! Run with Julie as she was at her cousins who live quite close. Went out past digley and up towards goodbent lodge. Missed the turning to blackpool bridge cos i havnt done this before. Ended up going to greenfield road and then along the pennine way towards black hill. That was when I realized we'd gone the wrong way so we had to do some terrain training cutting across the moor to the correct path. Whole thing added on about 2km to the run. Then back through holme, down the fields back to digley and home :) longest training run ever :O

Parently it would make me feel better. Didn't. Get rubbish and ankle hurt and hadn't eaten anything so really tired. Normally do that run 10 mins quicker :/

C • you better be fit for frida... 6

Had to check controls for an event at royds hall. Walked bout half then ran the second half. Feet were soooo cold and i hurt my ankle on the ice on sat so didnt run a course afterwards

YHOA training at Danefield. Was soooooooo cold :/
Started off putting controls out which was probably the best training i had.

Had a star relay next with Kath and Tony. Came second I think with no major mIstakes.

Odds and evens relay again with Kath and Tony. I got 6 of them which was the most I our team. Knew where the controls were as I had hanged them so no mistakes.

Finished by doing a 30 min handicap score. Was given 18 out of 21 to get. Made my mind up that I was going to get 18, late or not. Ended up just under 6 mins late with Joe having got 18 too but being 4 mins quicker. Down to poor route choice really, but was tricky trying to pick which 3 to miss out.

AttackpOints course. Two small slip ups, ran past one of them and couldn't see the other so spent abit looking for it. May have been as the control was a white paper plate and it was abit snowy :/

Micro-o. Found most of the right ones. Miss read a happy face for a sad one so lost abit there. Also found the missing control (8) at the previous one (7)

Control pick. Practicing control flow as there were many changes in direction. Sooooooo cold at this point :/

Map memory. Set off behind Lousie and kept catching her up. Couldn't find no.6 at all but everyone else seemed to find it. As I didn't have the map (as each leg was on the control) I didn't know where the next one was so had to get the map out for the other courses and run back :(

Warm up plus running too all the starts plus coming back from map memory

SYO talent squad training apparently but there was 4 juniors and alot more shuoc people :/ all at redmires wood :)

Pe

Ybt final. Had to do green. Fairly easy but very fast. Few small mistakes but nothing major. Caught nick Jarvis up 4 mins at about 9. Was running well leading nick most of way. Pushing really hard o try to catch will Parkinson. Ended up just behind him on the run in but never quite caught him. Finished 10th, 6 mins down on crickmore. Fairly happy, 2nd in age class behind angus Dobson :)