Training Log Archive: Mark3

Could only manage 5 plank

Lovely area, very runnable, pretty straightforward.

I was rubbish. 30th/41. Comically bad in places. Routegadget will be good fun.

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Started well. bit tentative to 3, went round paths probably too much, but fine with that.
Problems started at 4 - thrown by the 'scattered trees' that turned out to be open. Not really an excuse - plenty of things shoudv'e told me. Relocated on another control - 90s.
Then 5 - went round some dense undergrowth rather than through - and then didnt really have a plan an wandered about a bit - rubbish - 60s.
Bit of a wobble on 9 - saw control early but thought it was in the wrong reentrant so carried on - unfortunately there was only 1 reentrant. 60s
10-16 good apart from 30s at 14 thinking was at 15.

17 was where the real mess started. This was map turn over point and I think I got so focussed on that that I lost both where I was and what I was doing. +3 mins 30.

Bad route to 19; went up and down uneccessary hill. 20-22 good.

23 was the icing on the cake - for some reason, thought a path up a steep hill was a flat path at a different angle 200m away and so was looking in the wrong place for ages. Eventually realised and found the right control immediately. What an idiot. +5 mins.

I also lost time on 24 (another 2 mins 30) but this one was exclusively not my fault and I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned it - control 240. The control description lists it as a ditch bend, and the control on the ground was in a ditch bend.
BUT there is no ditch on the map. The circle is on nothing, very slightly offset from a knoll. So I was looking on the knolls. I don't think this is unreasonable. I'd definitely have complained if I hadn't already lost 15mins by this point.

25 to finish fine.

I make that +15mins with most of them being my fault; is that reasonable? 77:50 is probably about right; not a great run anyway really but passable.

Shame that I didn't take advantage of such a nice area. Lesson - avoid parties the night before, and having to get up really early to start really early to get back early to goto more parties. Basically no parties.

Too fast at the start trying to stay with Daryl.
Lots of overtaking on the grass so wouldn't have been great anyway.

Running to Bath with Jason and Alan. They did did pretty well. I was trying to pace them to 5:30 ks and they kept moaning each time one was a bit faster.in fairness they were all a bit faster,moihahaha.

BADTri track session (they come to ours, so we can go to theirs)

10x400m Paarlauf, with a bonus 400 'fast' at the start to pair people up

400s: 69,75,79,79,79,78,80,80,79,78,77

The wind was the 2nd windiest I have ever known, must've been at least a few seconds a lap.

4 min skisit
7 min plank (60s,30e,45rl,45ll,60rhs,60lhs,30s,90e)

These are both getting very hard.

Essentially segmenting.
Efforts on three: 1k,500m and 200m (ish)

Paces: 3:35,3:23,3:14

Got the first two segments; the third one is a bit tricky since it has roadworks in the middle at the moment, probably need to wait a year...

Increased to 3:30 skisit
6:30 plank
(60s,30e,30rl,30ll,60rhs,60lhs,30s,90e)

6x800m (400m jog)

800s: 2:46,49,46,46,48,50

Not disastrous, but would like to be hitting between 2:40 and 2:45 for these

C • "Disastrous"? 5