Training Log Archive: Mark3

Bit of a mare. 6th/39 - showing that others had even more of one...

#1 - and so it begins. Saw a control in roughly the right place (actually 40m away) and when it wasn't mine; had no idea where I was. Should have clocked that it was in a small reentrant and so I was very close to the right place. Didn't, and ran around for a bit. (2mins) Dismal start.

Pretty good 2-7. Went down the reentrant on 7; discussions afterward made me think this is a worse route than to N, but looking at RG I'm not so sure; I'm happy with what I did.

#8, bad-thing number 2. Not safe enough; didn't follow the sensible reentrant, was slightly too low and slightly too far E. Michael followed me (sorry Michael!). (2mins)

Contoured way too much on 10 and was then too high - (1 min)

11, should have gone down and round but went up and then into the field over the high (note: not uncrossable, despite the legend) fence which wasn't too bad.

14, way too high up; didn't really make any effort to make map=ground so my own fault, (1min)

Good route to 15 as per Ben Mitchell, then ruined it by looking for the control before the gate?! (90s)

16-25 good (hurray!) although route choice to 21 via 24 not great ; straighter was faster. Ironic blip on 26 (Since already found this looking for #1) - too low down in reentrant.

7.5 mins lost; arrgh.
http://www.ngoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#83&cour...
http://www.ngocweb.com/results/results_16/G1res.pd...

No mistakes puts me third which is bit more respectable; great run for Andy Monro, then...

Bit of knee pain which feels a bit ITBish; possibly unsurprising given yesterday; luckily I know all the exercises for that :)

C • Andy M 1

4th - http://www.sportsystems.co.uk/ss/results/Compton%2...

Miles behind the top 3...

This was hillier and tougher than I expected. Made shoe choice based on Google earth which was probably right overall - but not for the first 4k - slipping around a bit.settled into 5th place fairly early on. Plan was to have gels at 8 mile and 11 miles as that's where it looked like the hills were, note to self, that gap is too small. Actually found another hill so it was more like 12 miles which was better anyway.

Mentally I thought it was all downhill from 12,but it turned out id mixed up down and up and I really struggled up the biggest hill on the course,getting caught by 6th (who said to me - ' at least its not the Blorenge!' Turned out he was there last week...)

Then we ran together until about 15 where we passed the guy in 4th that looked like he'd dropped out - exhausted rather than injured we think - then after some bad signage the two of us ran an extra 600m

- I think the top 5 must all have done this - we saw marshals driving toward us who I assume were going to tell the previous marshals to pull their fingered out -

Despite me having a map...

Anyway I suddenly felt ok for some reason and was able to get away from 5th; gained a minute or so on him over the last 5k.

Surprised to be only marginally faster than the grizzly - but I suspect that despite being notionally the same length, this was actually quite a bit further, especially with the error.

Good race though - my next long one is the marathon...

EDIT: yes, 2k further!

8 starters with 1 dsq for not trying meant 6x500m

500s: 1:38,50,44,46,50,38

1st place. Only really had to try on the first and last ones.

I have discovered that I suck at all the other events we did: jumping, sprinting, squatting and benching - it's a good job I have running...

Elimination race tomorrow should be good - I think there are nine of us; approx. 500m laps, last place is eliminated each lap, next lap starts as soon as second to last person crosses the line.

If it was just a 4.5k race I'd be confident, but since Chris (eg) probably thinks he's going to come last, he's going to treat it like a single 500m race. Therefore, everyone else will too. So it's going to be really hard to pace.

Hopefully everyone will play it really tactically for most of the lap, and try and outsprint each other, and I will be able to just aim for 1:40s or something (there is a bit of a hill, though, so who knows what rep times will be)...

3 x (5x400m(60s),(2mins))

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

Windy. 4/10? Maybe only 3. Really struggling into the wind though, felt great on the home straight when it was sideways.
Consistent performance anyway which is good.

6*800m(400 jog)

I did not fancy 8*1k - although actually, after the warm up, my legs/glutes (which have been aching all day) felt fine.

Nice to be at the front of the medium group rather than at the back of the fast group for a change, as well.

800s: 2:40,45,43,48,45,46

Pretty consistent. Faster than January. Very wet during warm up but once the rain stopped, nice running weather, very little wind.