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Training Log Archive: olsoran

In the 31 days ending Dec 31, 2016:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Trail / Terrain Run	12	11:11:07	61.9	(10:51)	99.62	(6:44)	3398
Orienteering	3	2:58:00	6.28		10.1		100
Trail / Road Run	2	1:37:34	11.04	(8:50)	17.77	(5:29)	79
Warm up/down	3	47:00
Trail	1	40:00
Road Running	1	30:00
Intervals	1	28:00
Drills	2	10:00
Total	20	18:21:41	79.22		127.49		3577

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Saturday Dec 31, 2016 #

Trail / Road Run 27:00 [3] 4.7 km (5:45 / km)

Car drop off near Murrayfield and back into town via Water of Leith....Diversions in place. Slow.

Thursday Dec 29, 2016 #

Trail / Road Run 1:10:34 [3] 13.07 km (5:24 / km) +79m 5:14 / km

Leeds & Liverpool canal out and back through Burnley. Ice on Canal, clear, bright and crisp morning. Nice.

Wednesday Dec 28, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 42:57 [3] 8.48 km (5:04 / km) +116m 4:44 / km

Post journey.
Loop around Brierfield and Nelson. Felt good but nearly came a cropper on the icy pavements.

Monday Dec 26, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 43:00 [3] 6.5 km (6:37 / km) +187m 5:47 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

A cold wind and snowy. Up and over the back, off track up to the trig and home. Footprints, runners?, where I didnt necessarily expect them to be.

After many fun run years decided that since it's not on the doorstep any more I don't have to do it (especially since there's no one else here this year who might also have done it)! So I didn't.

Sunday Dec 25, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 42:00 [3] 5.0 km (8:24 / km) +170m 7:11 / km

Tom's Cairn early with T.
Tropical 14.

Trail / Terrain Run 22:00 [3] 3.5 km (6:17 / km)

Back home from Corsedardar memorial through the woods and via Midstrath on my tod.

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Up to Craigmore trig with Ballogie band late morning.

Saturday Dec 24, 2016 #

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Tired..and happy for another day of relative inactivity.

Friday Dec 23, 2016 #

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Quads a bit weary from last night, and everything else weary too so being as inactive as possible today.

Thursday Dec 22, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 1:22:00 [3] 7.2 km (11:23 / km) +644m 7:52 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Solstice (nearly), up Morven.
Nice starlit night but with a cold breeze and a lot of snow higher up. Must have been 30 or so folk out. Usual dram and mince pies on the top but didn't want to linger too long.
Ran back down with the neighbours, MT, SW and DW. Never used to do such things with neighbours. Should have worn dobs but skipping down through the heather was better than the skittery path.

Wednesday Dec 21, 2016 #

Orienteering (DNC 8 - Crathes) 51:00 [3] 5.1 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Too much of a large lunch still sitting in my stomach. Didn't really get going tonight. Scrappy and at least a couple of poor misses.
8 DNC long races done so now I can switch to the Short ! :-).

C • Short DNC 4

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Chopping logs and planting trees.

Tuesday Dec 20, 2016 #

Warm up/down 22:00 [3]

To, with about 15 folk, and from, with SallyW, Aboyne Green.

Drills 5:00 [3]

Intervals 28:00 [3]

7 x 2.30/1.30 approx. round the Green and then jog back across quite quickly.
Not feeling to go particularly well but got better as the session went on.
Wet and windy but pleased to get it done.

Monday Dec 19, 2016 #

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Journeying back.

Trail / Terrain Run 29:47 [3] 5.5 km (5:25 / km) +107m 4:56 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Needed out after 12 hours of driving in two days.
Headtorch round local loop via Torqu

Sunday Dec 18, 2016 #

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Journeying

Saturday Dec 17, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run race (DR Festive Relay - GTanar) 52:35 [5] 11.0 km (4:47 / km) +294m 4:13 / km

This hurt a lot last year, I remember now. Too late, it hurt a lot today too.
Had forgotten how far it was too. Hmm...maybe that climb up to Toms Cairn yesterday wasn't such great prep..

..nevertheless
45 seconds quicker than last year.
Interminable but gentleish climb for the first 5km then the short sharp climb at the back of Bawdy Meg. Toiling up the first behind BobS, SaraH, MilesN, and ColinL with them going further and further away then DirkW (hungover) came past close to the star of the steep bit. RichardI was just behind. Once at the top things improved and chased Dirk all the way down finally passing him and Colin at about 9. Overtook Sara in the last 200m as usual but Dirk came past again unfortunately. Bob not too far ahead but Miles long gone.

Good fun in a strange kind of way.

Friday Dec 16, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 1:26:27 [3] 12.6 km (6:52 / km) +410m 5:54 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Torqu, Craigmore, Toms Cairn direct loop with SD. Nice chatty pace and weather quite atmospheric. Lost direction in Toms Cairn plantation and added a small loop. The only other time I've done this circuit I did it 5 seconds slower...lets call it good pace judgement. Very enjoyable in spite of being up at 3am to take k to the airport.

Wednesday Dec 14, 2016 #

Warm up/down 10:00 [3]
shoes: ORoc 340

Pre Bogendreip O

Orienteering race (DNC #7 Bogendreip) 1:16:00 [4]
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Dear oh dear
Good concentration to 7 with limited time lost then missed the boulder on the hill, no. 8, big time. Came back in off the fence corner and still missed it. Then made a pigs ear of 11 in the ruins too...not focusing well by then.
Good course and enjoyed it. Shame about 8 as there were good points to be had tonight.

Tuesday Dec 13, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 49:11 [3] 7.04 km (6:59 / km) +207m 6:05 / km

Late on - headtorch run as didn't fancy the DR session tonight. Not enough energy for that.

Craigmore loop. Noisy owls.

C • Hoots man... 3

Sunday Dec 11, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 1:12:47 [3] 9.3 km (7:50 / km) +547m 6:03 / km

Led astray by some dubious characters in Edinburgh last night.:-) Good beer and chat, thanks guys, but paying the penalty this morning so needed to get out and cleanse the soul!
Wanderings on Arthur's Seat from Holyrood House. Felt heavy but nice to be out and on high.

Saturday Dec 10, 2016 #

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No time until late then no energy.

Friday Dec 9, 2016 #

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Not running
In Edinburgh and border country

Thursday Dec 8, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run race (Cnoc Dubh night race) 39:23 [5] 7.4 km (5:19 / km) +226m 4:37 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Really enjoyed it but paced it very poorly.
Felt very heavy legged after the Tuesday session and the night race yesterday so set off really conservatively. Once up the first and main hill I was feeling really good but couldn't get past folk on the single track and others were long gone. From Burn O'Vat onwards felt really strong and was catching folk all the way back. Overtook SaraH again just before the finish..third time in a row..she must be sick of me.
Lovely night..these races are fun.

Wednesday Dec 7, 2016 #

Orienteering race (DNC #6 - Glen Dye) 51:00 [4] 5.0 km (10:12 / km) +100m 9:16 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Somewhat weary from a day of "logging" but ran reasonably well. So warm though..20 degree swing from running two days ago.
Lost 1 mins plus at 2 and quite a bit at 7, where the control wasn't where it should have been (checked the depression three times before skipping it), another 30s at 10 and 14. Happy, but just can't run fast enough these days.
Nice run out and glad we didn't head up the Glen Dye hill this time.

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7 was wrong so 6-7-8 legs removed and self re-instated. 7/13 on the Long course - beaten by a whole tribe of youngsters (HazelW still is to me!) and BigJon. Happy to beat the rest.

Tuesday Dec 6, 2016 #

Road Running 30:00 [5]
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Deeside Runners session - Aboyne Green
Wet and warm but very reduced numbers - only 9 out.
Paired with MilesN for opposite ways relay round the outer road loop.
Equated to 4 x 5m30s (1400m approx.) / 2 mins
Good session but tough.

Warm up/down 15:00 [3]
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Drills 5:00 [3]
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Monday Dec 5, 2016 #

Trail 40:00 [3]

Headtorch running with the Aboyne Academy 29. An all time record number and in Baltic weather at that. -5 on the way home. 30s intervals on the Coull hill up from the bridge over theTarland Burn

C • shorts 3

Sunday Dec 4, 2016 #

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Do all the weeks of training for a serious tilt at an overseas marathon and have it cancelled because of exceptional weather conditions. That's not good news.
Seriously unlucky if it happens twice in four years.
2012 New York - Hurricane Sandy
2016 Malaga - "..inclement weather and by force majeure" - serious flooding on Costa del Sol
Hard luck d.

C • future marathons 2

Saturday Dec 3, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 1:00:00 [3] 8.1 km (7:24 / km) +240m 6:27 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

More nice loops locally - woods and fields, some rough stuff. Steady with k. Good chat.

Friday Dec 2, 2016 #

Trail / Terrain Run 49:00 [3] 8.0 km (6:08 / km) +250m 5:18 / km
shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw 300 Gr/Bl

Deer trods up on Craigmore, dropped down main track to Potties road then up the overgrown track; over the wall and fence to Torqu. Lovely to be out in some of the nicer bits of the wood.
Then did a few hill loops in the fields of stubble.
Fun. Felt good throughout.

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