Training Log Archive: Mark3

Definitely a day for the mudclaws.

Warned at the start that the brambles were 'worse than mapped' so chose path routes a lot of the time. Actually though most of this is nicer than most of the areas in the midlands and the planner did well to avoid the vast majority of the horrible stuff; I'm glad I went.

Didn't have an AP for 15 and so lost time in the bushes - recognised this as a danger control, which was good, but then totally failed to do anything about it, which was bad.should've come round the path and used the gully to the N I think. Was annoyed about this and let it affect my concentration to 16 where I unnecessarily contoured and ended up far too high.a few more questionable route choices basically staying too safe.

Good fun and good workout in the mud.very mild for the time of year.

Accompanied Daryl on the run his marathon training plan required; 1mile warm up, 6miles @ 4:33, 1 mile cool down.
The cool down was a bit long,but the bit in the middle was paced pretty well I think.
Felt very tough after this morning.

Pump 12.

It's been a hard day. Thought I was going to faint at one point during this.

I think this is about the slowest the course is going to get.
Dan insists on wearing road shoes but I finally beat him today; suspect he might finally switch next time.

2nd again, for the 4th time.

Thought Tom got really good use out of the area.

Found 1 before I was expecting to; turns out it was in the wrong place...hope it's not voided since i didn't lose any time :)

Just took it sensibly and did path routes where possible.

No significant time losses until 9 where the niche was mapped as being halfway between a boulder and a platform - having found both of these features, turns out the niche was much lower down the slope.Saw Mark and Alice here who helped me find it eventually.the conclusion is that the map is wrong here.I don't mind if that one's voided :)

Round would probably have been better on 10 than down/up - both down and up were very slow due to the mud.

Lost a minute on 15 due to not checking the control description north side' and running straight past it.generally I never look at the sides and just get it from the map, but will start looking now in cases like this where the feature is so small it's hard to tell.

Lost another minute on 17 climbing the hill perpendicular to the slope.just not concentrating.

19 was a good route choice leg, chose well but cut a down/up corner which was not a good idea today.

Had to look at the gps to work out what happened on 20; but I'm still not sure.not a good enough AP clearly.

Probably lost 5mins in total but 2 not really my fault.so not a bad run.

Wanted to do Kymin as well, but there was a slight toenail incident last night and it was getting pretty painful by the end of the o.

Pump #11
Followed by CX WORX. Prefer pump.

Made mincemeat cheesecake. Sounds weird, but subject to it being as good as when my mum made it, I think it's my favorite ever cheesecake.

This is high praise.

C • christmass cheascake 4

1.2k,400
1k,400
800,400
600,400

Second time doing this session.

1200s: 4:13
1ks: 3:32
800s: 2:44
600s: 2:00
400s: 74,75,76,76

All reps faster than the same session in December.the 400s in particular felt pretty good; it's a long time since I did a 74*.I think the upper body gym stuff might be starting to pay dividends (or maybe this is entirely psychological...But it didn't feel like that's all it was)

*February, it turns out

Pump #10

7th/34
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Mass start. Didn't really do any map reading up to #2 and just about managed to hang onto Gardner, Robinson et al. But that didn't last much longer.from 7 on was with Ant Squire - not exactly following but he was always ahead...I was using him quite a lot to confirm my choices, and he saw a few alleys I'd missed which was useful.

Together until 20 where we made different choices - mine was shorter but went down and up; his longer but flatter.at the time I thought mine was worse so assumed I was behind.But then made a 90° compass error on 22, lost maybe 20s, just trying to go too fast downhill, and he caught me up again dammit. Finished 8s behind.

RG -> I think going NW through the open to 22 was the best route, but no-one who's routed has done this.

Pretty good overall really, though.

Pump #9.