Training Log Archive: graeme

Event: British Middle Distance Championships
 

British "Middle" Strensall Common by York. M50 5th

Flat heathland TD3 burn up. Not quite fast enough and not quite clean enough. Got a bit frustrated at a series of 15s "errors" rootling for low hung pits early on, then got into it a bit more (which means I saw people sticking up out of the pits). Going into the final section, let myself get distracted by others tooling on the course, another 90 sec gone, stopped short of spectator, another 15s (and 2 places, Justin and NeilC). Even so, not enough errors to have troubled Quentin, winner in 30.17.
Still, the sun shone, and it was a nice place. Jane also 5th

Warm up. They provided a nice little map to remind you to stay out of the marshes and leg it in the right direction ignoring the map.

Course 4 - Splits

Sprint recce ("qualifier"), York Uni.
Set out to run steady and qualify while having a bit of a look around for the final. Unfortunately, accidently crossed an OOB flowerbed (probably jumped it - didn't see any flowers) and got spotted by another competitor.
I completely failed to see it. Went back and ran round, then started legging it for a bit, but ultimately figured with JK coming up I'd have to be whiter than white. Made to give up, skipped a couple of leg, then cruised the last bit anyway, cos it was fun.
Lots of folk made the same error, and if noone had said, I would never have noticed/realised. It's an impossible position for the organisers: presumably they can get permission to run across flowerbeds, so it has to be olive. And there's zillions of the damn things, so they cant tape them all. With negligible time to be gained, the pragmatic thing is just to turn a blind eye. Maybe they decided to do that, and I buggeed it up by formally protesting against myself.

Sprint B Final, York University. M50, 1st Fun course, ran clean until the very last control, in a bin tidy. Having failed to learn from St,Andrews and check out the finish in advance, I stood stock still panicking about olive green patches, looking at the back end of traders vans and tapes everywhere. After 30sec of crowd-pleasing incompetance, I spotted the kite and was off again. Not enough to cost the win on M50B, but enough to give Nigel Bunn on 45B the bragging rights.

All in all, a very disappointing day personally. Jane got 7th after blowing a minute at number 1 (in sight of the start, so watched by Lorna who tucked in for 2nd). James was done in by riduculously unbalanced heats on M14 (stupid format for a race with <30 entries, but BOF only understand the unfairness of small number statistics when it comes to stripping people of ranking points).

Warm up and down. Probably not enough.

Stretch and burn around Liberton sprint map. Ready for weekend

Mortonhall, back round braids. steady.

Work to stupid oclock, Run home. Fail to get out again.

from work, jog home, meadows 5x1km 3:34 34 24 31 31. and a 1:42 500 for luck. 5-T recovery. Last 3 with Toni group.
Then off for interview dinner.

Steils sprint with J&J. steady

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