Training Log Archive: Mark3

2nd place behind Charlie Maclean (unsurprisingly! although it was his first ever offroad race, he still dominated everyone despite wearing road shoes)

2:12 faster than last year, although it was 420m shorter than last year - allowing for this still makes it 22 seconds faster, so that's okay :)

Won about £15 worth of those Nuun electrolyte tablet things which is pretty good since I will actually use those! Better than another voucher.

Seem to have won the Strava KOM as well which is surprising but I shall revel in while it lasts
https://www.strava.com/segments/7236984?filter=ove...

Not really feeling the 19k, 600m climb from yesterday as much as expected; I'm sure it will hit me at some point though...

Tough.

Thanks to Richard's recommendation, made the correct shoe choice (trainers) as most of the race was hard surfaces.

Found the first climb the most difficult and the leaders pulled away, then ran from Hailes to winchcombe pretty much alone. Map was useful getting the correct turning in winchcombe.

Didn't stop for a drink so gained a bit of time, caught one of the leaders who'd been dropped and a pair of Cheltenham harriers, putting me (unbeknownst) into 4th place.

After the Belas Knap hill, recaught by one of Cheltenham with no map and no idea so I showed him where all the turnings were. We were going a pretty good speed together and coming out of the woods up to the tithe barn we were catching 3rd.

Unfortunately I then let us both down by making two navigational errors:
(1) adding 2 extra gates and some hill by running around a farm rather than through it - it was signed CW alternative route and there were no signs for the main route! Only realised when it rejoined the main path on the other side.
(2) just after crossing the stream, following footpath signs rather than using the map and turning left rather than right, adding a extra stile and some more climb, until I realised the path showed no signs of going right eventually and we turned round.we'd been caught by 3ish people at this point which surprised me as I though we were well ahead.

I pointed Cheltenham in the right direction and he went for it on the last hill; we got away from the others but I couldn't stay with him, so I think we were 4th and 5th. Bit annoying as I think we'd have caught 3rd and been 3rd and 4th without the mistakes, but c'est la vie. It was a good race.

C • Good effort 7

Didn't think I'd have time to get here but managed to leave work early.

Reasonably straightforward course, managed to keep concentration high and only a few lapses-missed a narrow alleyway to 9, came out of 12 too far east.otherwise clean.

No problems with Richard's map (as expected)

First 4 ks were all around 4 mins each which is pretty good for orienteering; slowed down after that, partly more technical, partly tired.quite hot as well.

Looking forward to Cotswold way relay and cheddar 10k this weekend, but a bit upset can't fit in harvester as well! I'll miss the lack of orienteering.

Some not-quite-optimal route choices and one very long pause where I worked out the best way past an uncrossable thing, but otherwise pretty good. Felt like I was running really slowly but not too far off Adam's splits on most legs, so must have been okay.

Some good sprint-style legs which I was probably over-cautious on. Some mistakes in the school near the end where chose to run all the way around a building rather than slowing down to read the map more carefully, and then went to the outside rather than the inside of a fence at the last control.

Mainly good, though.
http://www.movescount.com/moves/move66931893#navig...

C • 39 minutes.... 2

Really felt the lack of interval training recently. Went for the 'sub 18 5k' group at the start (optimistically) and then bailed to the slower group.

[450m (60s), 300m (60s), 200m (3 mins)] * 6
With 450 changing to 400.

450s: 87, 85
400s: 73,75,77,74
300s: 54, 56,55,55,55,54
200s: 34,33,34,35,35,34

Times probably not as bad as they felt.very windy out.